Meeting Briefs
Published May 6, 2026 · Last updated May 8, 2026 · 2 min read
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Meeting Briefs in Obvious automatically prepare an AI-generated summary before each calendar meeting — pulling context from your workspace so you can walk in informed without doing any prep.
What Meeting Briefs Are
A Meeting Brief is a short, AI-generated summary that Obvious prepares before a scheduled meeting. It pulls together context from across your workspace so you can walk into a meeting informed. The brief appears in the Info tab of the meeting detail view.
How It Works
Obvious automatically schedules a brief for each upcoming calendar meeting. Before the meeting starts, an AI agent retrieves relevant context from sources across your workspace, including your calendar, past transcripts, threads, artifacts, and external sources. It uses that context to generate a concise summary.
You do not need to do anything to trigger it. The brief runs on its own based on your meeting schedule.
Where to Find It
Open any meeting from your calendar in Obvious. Select the Info tab in the meeting detail view. The brief appears there once it is ready.
Brief States
As the brief is being prepared, you will see one of these states in the Info tab:
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Brief scheduled: The brief is queued and includes an estimated ready time, shown as "ready by [time]."
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Preparing brief: The agent is actively generating your summary.
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Ready: Your brief is available. It shows the summary along with a timestamp indicating when it was generated.
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Stale: The brief was generated but may no longer reflect the latest context. The summary is still visible with a stale indicator.
If the brief fails or is cancelled, nothing is shown in the Info tab.
What the Brief Contains
Each brief includes a summary of up to a few paragraphs covering the relevant context for your meeting. When the agent draws from specific sources, those citations are included alongside the summary, with links back to the original content where available.