Case Study · 48-hour build

AI-powered meeting summary pipeline with automatic follow-ups

Company meetings ended with no written record. Decisions were forgotten, action items went untracked, and people who missed the meeting had no way to catch up. We built a fully automated pipeline in 48 hours.

PlatformZoho Meeting + Zoho Mail
AIGPT-4o for summarization
Delivery48 hours, end to end
How It Works
1. Meeting recorded in Zoho Meeting
2. Transcript auto-detected every 30 min
3. AI generates structured summary
4. Summary emailed to all attendees
5. Follow-up email sent 7 days later

Meetings happened. Nothing was written down.

The team held regular meetings but had no system for capturing what was discussed. Decisions were forgotten by the next day, action items went untracked, and anyone who missed the meeting had no way to catch up.

No written record

Nobody took notes. Meetings ended and the only record was whatever each person individually remembered.

Action items dropped

People committed to tasks during the meeting but there was no follow-up system. Items were forgotten within days.

Absentees left out

Anyone who missed a meeting had to ask a colleague to recap. The information was always incomplete and second-hand.

From recording to inbox, fully automated

A Node.js service polls the Zoho Meeting API every 30 minutes. When a new transcript is ready, it downloads the raw text, sends it to an AI model with a custom prompt, and distributes the structured summary to every attendee via Zoho Mail.

Cron polls for new recordings

Every 30 minutes, the service checks for recordings where a transcript has been generated but hasn’t been processed yet.

Every 30 min

Transcript + attendees fetched in parallel

The raw transcript is downloaded from Zoho Files, while the participant API returns the email of every person who actually joined.

AI generates structured summary

The transcript is sent to GPT-4o with a custom prompt that extracts decisions, action items with owners, open questions, and key discussion points.

Summary emailed to attendees

A formatted HTML email is sent to every attendee via the Zoho Mail API. Markdown from the AI response is converted to clean, styled HTML.

Automatic

Follow-up email 7 days later

A scheduled follow-up reminds the team of the action items, giving people a nudge to complete what they committed to.

Day 7
Inbox. Meeting Summary
Meeting Summary: Company Meeting
Sent automatically
Key Decisions
• Q3 launch timeline approved
• New vendor contract signed off
Action Items
• Finalize spec sheet, due Apr 10
• Schedule supplier call, due Apr 8
• Update inventory forecast, due Apr 12
Open Questions
• Shipping timeline for batch 3?
• Warranty policy update pending legal
Inbox. 3 Days Later
Follow-up: Company Meeting
Friendly reminder. here are the action items from your meeting 7 days ago.

• Finalize spec sheet, due Apr 10
• Schedule supplier call, due Apr 8
• Update inventory forecast, due Apr 12

What changed

Accountability

Every meeting produces a written record

Decisions, action items, and open questions are captured automatically. No one needs to take notes manually during the meeting.

Follow-through

7-day follow-up nudges action items

A scheduled email reminds the team of what they committed to, reducing the number of action items that silently drop.

Catch-up

Absentees get the full summary

People who missed the meeting receive the same structured summary, so they can catch up without asking someone to recap.

Speed

48-hour build, zero ongoing maintenance

The entire pipeline was built and deployed in two days. It runs on a cron schedule with no manual intervention required.

What powers it

Backend

Node.js · node-cron · Zoho OAuth2 token management · Markdown-to-HTML converter

Integrations

Zoho Meeting API (recordings, transcripts, participants) · Zoho Mail API · OpenAI GPT-4o

Infrastructure

Cloud-hosted · 30-minute polling cycle · Persistent state tracking · Duplicate prevention

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