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Pre-call planning, automatic.

Every conversation becomes the plan for the next one.

Runlight does the pre-call planning for every meeting on your calendar. After each recorded conversation, a briefing on every person updates itself, so you walk in already knowing what was said, what was promised, and what to bring up first.

Connect your Google Calendar

Free while in beta · Read-only calendar access · 2-minute setup

Every call is a first-pretending-to-be-second call.

You've met them before. Last Tuesday, probably. Maybe twice. Your notes are somewhere: a Doc, a Slack thread, a 40-page transcript you don't want to open. So you walk in, shake hands, and pretend this is the first time you've had this conversation.

Most meeting tools make the problem worse. They store the call after it ends. Nobody handles the call preparation you need before the next one starts.

Runlight is what would have prepared you.

A hand-drawn weekly calendar filled edge-to-edge with back-to-back sales and customer calls. The morning meeting is highlighted in blue, with a small clock pointing to two minutes before it starts, showing how little pre-call planning time is actually available.
I.
What planning looks like

One page per person. Always current.

Runlight turns meeting preparation into a single page per person: a synthesis of every conversation you've had with them, kept current so you never walk in cold.

One page per person
Everyone you meet with has a briefing.

The moment a calendar invite arrives, Runlight has a page ready for every attendee: their last briefing, their open threads, the context you need before you walk in.

Rewrites after every call
The briefing updates itself.

After every recorded conversation, the person's page rebuilds. New context replaces stale context. The briefing you open tomorrow reflects the call you had today.

Before you need it
Open it in the two minutes before.

Runlight surfaces each day's briefings on your home view, ordered by when the meeting starts. Glance before the call. Walk in briefed.

II.
How it works

Pre-call planning, in three steps.

Setup takes two minutes. Your first briefing lands after your first recorded meeting, and every call after that plans the next one automatically.

  1. i.
    Connect your calendar

    Runlight watches your Google Calendar and schedules a recording bot for every call with a Meet, Zoom, or Teams link. Read-only access, two-minute setup.

  2. ii.
    Record the conversation

    The bot joins as a visible participant and announces itself in chat. Your first call becomes the first entry on every attendee's briefing page.

  3. iii.
    Walk into the next call prepared

    Before every follow-up meeting, Runlight hands you the rewritten briefing: what was said, what was promised, what to bring up first.

III.
Pre-call vs. post-call

Most tools summarize the last call. Runlight plans the next one.

Post-call transcripts are a record. Pre-call planning is a plan. Both matter; only one tells you what to say when you walk in.

Transcript tools
Runlight
Stores the call after it ends
Builds the briefing before the next one starts
A file per meeting you have to search
A page per person, always current
You remember to review it. Sometimes.
Briefings surface themselves on your home view
Useful if you find the right transcript
Useful the moment the calendar invite arrives
IV.
Questions people ask

Before you sign in.

  • Meeting notes describe a call you already had. Pre-call planning is what you do before the next call: look at recent history, review unresolved threads, remember what you promised last time. Runlight handles the planning automatically by rebuilding a briefing on every person after each recorded conversation, so the research step is already done when you open the calendar invite.

  • Google Calendar today. Connect it once with read-only access and Runlight watches every meeting you're invited to, automatically scheduling a recording bot for any event with a Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams link. Outlook and Microsoft 365 calendar support is on the 2026 roadmap.

  • Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Any calendar event with one of those links gets a bot scheduled automatically. Events without a meeting link, and events you've tagged with [no bot], [private], or [no record] in the title, are skipped. You can also set persistent skip keywords (for example 'standup' or '1:1') from Settings.

  • Yes. The bot joins as a visible participant and posts a short chat message the moment recording starts, so every attendee sees the notice in real time. If you don't want a bot on a particular call, add [no bot] to the meeting title and Runlight will skip it. For workspace-hosted Google accounts, inviting the bot's email to the calendar event allows pre-admission.

  • Only people in your Runlight organization. Every meeting, contact briefing, and API response is scoped to your org. There's no cross-org read path, no way for another Runlight customer to see your data, and the API uses per-org bearer tokens you can rotate or revoke at any time from the dashboard.

  • Runlight is free for everyone during the beta. Paid tiers are in planning for later in 2026. Beta users get advance notice before any billing begins and keep every briefing, meeting record, and custom extraction field generated during the free period, so none of the work you do now gets reset.

Pre-call planning, automatic.

Connect your Google Calendar. Record your first meeting. The plan for every follow-up call writes itself.

Connect your Google Calendar

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