Circleback

AI-powered meeting notes, action items, automations, and search. Backed by @ycombinator.

[Tem @temnco]

We won the Notion hackathon with a prototype of Cerebro — an "autonomous intranet."

There are a handful of agent memory/second brain tools out there already, but I ain't bullish, so the bet with Cerebro is different: configure Notion — the layer many companies already run on — as a well-organized, self-managing enterprise memory, so any human and/or agent can easily find what they need to get sh*t done.

Now it's time to build the real Cerebro for our own company. In public. Documenting one component at a time.

Journal Entry 1/n: Automatic & Accurate Meeting Transcription.

Every single meeting we take should be accurately transcribed, cleaned (more on that in the next post), made agent-readable, and automatically fed into Cerebro.

To solve for transcription accuracy and agent accessibility, I'm setting up our team on @circlebackai. This is not a sponsored post.

Since 2020, I've used a bunch of meeting transcription tools, and none have nailed it as well as Circleback.

It records well:
• Automatic join/recording
• Speaker attribution
• Screen reading when sharing
• Slack huddle support (p clever)
• Granola-like system audio recorder
• Web, desktop, and mobile apps

And it's agent-native:
• MCP, CLI, and Claude Connector
• Native Attio, Slack & Notion integrations (also Raycast, Linear, Zapier)
• Workspace-level automations and settings

Plus: I like that their founder/CEO, @iAligator responds to my random emails about Circleback :)

All of this means that in one afternoon, I can set up a super-fast, basically headless meeting recorder that captures every conversation across our team and makes it instantly available in Claude.

I'm onboarding my team today with a deep-dive onboarding video + doc.

Duplicate it here: https://t.co/xgGF94z22q

[Circleback @circlebackai]

@karnrahal already supported! https://t.co/rrRmSt6VLk

[Ali Haghani @iAligator]

Circleback now captures what's on screen, not just what's said.

this matters most for ai agents. a number on a dashboard, pricing on a slide, a deadline in a doc. all of it is now available to the assistant and any agent you connect.

as more work gets done by agents, the context layer matters more than the notes.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Circleback has better speaker identification and screen information extraction than Granola

Worth switching if you haven't yet

[Circleback @circlebackai]

Circleback now captures details from what's shared on screen during your meetings.

Slides, dashboards, timelines, docs. Every important detail makes it into your notes, whether said or shown.

[Ali Haghani @iAligator]

to get to most web apps today, you have two annoying options:

1. remember to prepend "app."
or
2. land on a marketing site not made for you, then hunt down a login button that takes you where you're actually trying to go

happy it's no longer the case with us

[Circleback @circlebackai]

Drop the "app." Just Circleback. It's cleaner.

https://t.co/Mu2jIRLCkA now directly opens the web app if you're logged in.

No extra clicks, keystrokes, or logins.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

New in Circleback: People and companies

Catching up on someone used to mean bouncing between your calendar, inbox, and meetings. Now it's all in one place.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

@haroonc Hey Haroon, apologies for the inconvenience. We experienced an incident earlier that resulted in the app not loading for some. Let us know if you're still experiencing any issues.

[Ali Haghani @iAligator]

we're hosting a canadian demo night on april 30 at our office in SF 🇨🇦

come see what the canadians have been building, meet some nice folks, and win some prizes

→ best demo gets a mac
→ best canadian tuxedo gets a levi's gift card

[Kevin @kevinjacyna]

We're looking for a design engineer who obsesses over how software looks and feels to join us at @circlebackai in sf.

DM me something you've built that you love.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

New: Drag to multi-select

Select multiple meetings or action items to change status, reassign, tag, and more in bulk.

[Ali Haghani @iAligator]

every friday, we invite a customer to our office for a fireside chat.

we ask them what they do, how they work, why they use Circleback. it's a casual conversation with the whole team, and a highlight of our week.

half the advice from yc and pg is some form of "talk to your customers." this is one of the best ways we've found to keep the habit.

[Ali Haghani @iAligator]

this is how our customers use Circleback company-wide

capture all meetings
↓
extract action items, decisions, and other outcomes depending on the call
↓
update relevant systems of record (e.g. CRM for sales, issue tracker for product)

[Circleback @circlebackai]

New: Circleback CLI

Your meetings, emails, calendar events, and more. Now a command away, giving your agents the context they need to get things done.

$ npm install -g @circleback/cli
$ circleback login

[Circleback @circlebackai]

Get started by connecting the app here: https://t.co/JsOpVZELC8

Once connected, ChatGPT will automatically reference your Circleback data when relevant, or you can mention Circleback explicitly to pull in specific details.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

Circleback now works in @ChatGPTapp. Reference context from your conversations, directly in ChatGPT.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

Dark mode is here.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

New: Manage tags

You can now rename tags, change their color, add a description for automatic meeting tagging, and delete tags you no longer need from Settings → Tags.

[Circleback @circlebackai]

We've refreshed the look and feel of Circleback.

Every pixel has been reconsidered–updated colors, a new typeface, and a simpler interface that makes it easier to find what you need and get your work done.

Now live on web and desktop.