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Google Meet transcription, automatic.

Every Google Meet, transcribed and summarized. Without the Workspace upgrade.

Runlight joins every Google Meet on your calendar, transcribes the conversation, and writes a clean summary with action items. Then it does the part nobody else does: rebuilds a briefing on every attendee so the next call with that person starts prepared.

Connect your Google Calendar

Free while in beta · Works on every Google Workspace tier · 2-minute setup

The built-in transcription isn't enough.

Google Meet's native transcription works, technically. You need Workspace Business Standard or higher. The transcript shows up as a Doc in Drive after the call. It's English-only. There's no summary, no action items, no structure beyond who spoke when.

And the transcript is where the tool stops. You still have to open it, read 40 pages, remember the three things that mattered, and translate that into what to say on the next call. Most of the work is downstream of the transcription.

Runlight is what would have done that work for you.

I.
How Runlight handles Google Meet

Three steps. No installs.

Connect Google Calendar once. Runlight handles every Google Meet from there.

  1. i.
    Runlight watches your calendar

    Every event with a Google Meet link gets a recording bot scheduled automatically. Read-only calendar access, no browser extension, no Chrome plugin.

  2. ii.
    The bot joins and records

    A visible participant joins the Meet, posts a chat message announcing the recording, and captures the full conversation. Works on any Google Workspace tier, including personal Gmail accounts.

  3. iii.
    Transcript, summary, briefing

    Within minutes of the call ending, you get the transcript, a clean summary with action items, and an updated briefing on every attendee for the next time you talk.

II.
What you get

Transcription is just the first layer.

Every Google Meet produces a searchable transcript, a structured meeting record, and a contact briefing that rewrites itself.

Accurate transcripts
Every word, every speaker.

High-accuracy transcription with speaker labels, timestamps, and searchable text. Available minutes after the Google Meet ends, not hours.

AI meeting notes
Summary and action items, extracted.

Runlight extracts what matters: a short summary, the action items each person committed to, and any org-specific fields your team has defined.

Per-person briefings
One page per person, always current.

After each call, the briefing on every Google Meet attendee rebuilds itself. The next meeting with that person opens with the context already loaded.

III.
Runlight vs. built-in

What Runlight does that Google Meet doesn't.

Google Meet's native transcription is a starting point. Runlight takes the transcript and turns it into actual meeting intelligence.

Google Meet transcription
Runlight
Requires Workspace Business Standard or higher
Works on every Workspace tier, plus personal Gmail
Raw transcript saved to Drive
Transcript plus AI summary and action items
English only
Multiple languages supported via the transcription backend
One Doc per meeting you have to search
One briefing per person, rewritten after every call
You remember to turn it on
Every call with a Meet link gets a bot automatically
IV.
Questions people ask

Before you sign in.

  • No. Runlight works on every Google Workspace tier (Business Starter and up) as well as personal Gmail accounts. Unlike Google Meet's built-in transcription, which requires Business Standard or higher, Runlight schedules a recording bot for any Google Meet link on your calendar regardless of the host's plan.

  • A recording bot joins each Google Meet as a visible participant and captures the audio stream directly. We send it to a high-accuracy transcription backend that returns speaker-labeled, timestamped text within minutes of the call ending. You get both the raw transcript and an AI-generated summary with action items.

  • Yes. The bot joins as a visible participant with a name like "Runlight Notetaker" and posts a short chat message when recording starts. If you're hosting from a personal Gmail account, you'll need to click Admit when the bot requests to join. Workspace hosts can pre-admit by inviting the bot's email to the calendar event.

  • Google Meet's built-in transcription is English-only. Runlight's transcription backend handles the major business languages including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Japanese. The AI summary and briefing steps currently work best in English; other-language support is improving.

  • Yes, two ways. Add [no bot], [private], or [no record] to any meeting title and Runlight will skip it. Or set persistent skip keywords in Settings, like 'standup' or '1:1', so entire categories of calls never get a bot.

  • Those tools transcribe the call and stop there. Runlight transcribes the call and then rebuilds a briefing on every attendee, so the next conversation with that person picks up where the last one ended. Transcription is a utility; the per-person briefing is where the actual prep work happens.

Transcribe every Google Meet, automatically.

Connect your Google Calendar. Runlight joins your next Google Meet, transcribes it, and has the briefing for the follow-up ready before you need it.

Connect your Google Calendar

Read-only calendar access · Two-minute setup · Free while in beta