The universal problem
If you’ve ever thought, “This meeting could’ve been an email” - you’re not alone. The truth is, meetings, emails, & chats all come with their own frustrations.
Not everything that ends up as a meeting needs to be one. In practice, most meetings aren’t for real-time collaboration or decision-making; they’re for updating others, sharing context, or explaining something once so that a group of people can hear it simultaneously. These kinds of meetings persist not because they’re efficient, but because they’re familiar. People need to express their thoughts out loud. Others need to feel included. You can’t replace this kind of communication with a document or a Slack message, because reading a paragraph of text doesn’t carry the same clarity, tone, or nuance as hearing someone explain it directly. And long Slack threads sprawl - then become impossible to search later. At the same time, synchronizing everyone’s schedules to have that conversation in real time is often unnecessary overhead.
In short -
- People hate being stuck in meetings.
- People also hate long Slack threads.
- Search across threads & meetings is broken.
Introducing Clips
The goal of Clips is to address this gap.
With Clips, you capture your thoughts with a single click - audio, video, or screen-share - with no time limits. When you’re done, share a secure perma-link; recipients don’t need apps or signups. They can play in high definition, watch at up to 2× speed, pop it into picture-in-picture to multitask, or skip the video entirely and interact with the automatically generated transcript. That transcript includes speaker labels, timestamps, and an embedded chat interface where you can ask questions about what was said.
For example, you can ask Clips, “What were the key takeaways?” or “Who was responsible for the next steps?” and it will return an answer derived directly from the transcript, along with references to the sections it pulled from.
So the output of a single recording becomes more than just a video; it becomes a transcript you can read, a summary you can scan, a set of action items, and a searchable record you can come back to later.
With Clips, you can:
🎥 Record once, broadcast asynchronously, and skip the meeting.
🤖 Send an AI notetaker when you can’t avoid a meeting.
📝 Receive auto-generated summaries and action items.
💬 Chat with transcripts enhanced by speaker detection.
🔎 Search for answers across clips & workspace apps.
When Live Meeting Is Unavoidable
For the conversations that truly need to happen, Clips syncs with your calendar and can send an AI notetaker to the meeting on your behalf to capture notes and key takeaways, ensuring you never miss out.
Unlike other tools that rely solely on bots to attend meetings, xdge offers two methods for capturing conversations, tailored to the situation. Inside the Meetings app, you can choose Join on My Behalf, where a visible bot joins the call for you, captures everything, and delivers a full transcript and summary afterward - ideal when you can’t attend in person.
If you’re already present, you don’t need the bot at all. Use Clips, from the Clips tab or directly in-browser, to capture from your own device. This is invisible to others and avoids bot friction, while still giving you the same high-quality transcript and searchable notes. You control how context is captured, without the awkward workarounds.
One Search Bar for Your Work
Your recorded clips and meeting notes don’t live in a silo. They sit alongside the rest of your workplace knowledge so you can use a single, unified search & answer bar across chat threads, meeting transcripts, recorded clips, and other workspace apps. The result is faster retrieval of answers - whether they came from a clip you recorded yesterday or a thread from last quarter.
A New Way of Working
This enables a different way of working: instead of coordinating everyone to be available at the same time, you capture your thinking once and allow others to consume it whenever it fits into their schedule. This is more than saving time - though it does that. It’s about decoupling communication from presence, conveying what needs to be said without requiring others to be physically present to hear it. The value here compounds.
A five-minute explanation, recorded once, can be reused, referenced, or watched by ten people without the speaker needing to repeat themselves. If someone joins the team two weeks later, they can still catch up just by watching the same link. If someone forgets what was discussed, they can search the transcript. If someone wasn’t paying full attention, they can jump back to the relevant part. A live meeting doesn’t have these properties; once it’s over, it’s mostly gone, except for whatever someone remembered to write down.
The Transcript at the Center
The transcript is not a secondary feature. It’s the center of how Clips works. Every recording is automatically transcribed and divided by speaker.
You can scroll through it like a chat log. Click a sentence to jump to that point in the video. Copy-paste a quote. Filter by speaker or ask questions directly, such as “What did Jane say about the timeline?” or “List all the objections made during the discussion.” This turns recordings into something closer to a structured memory than a passive playback.
Sharing Without Friction
Because every recording is hosted via a simple link, sharing is effortless. You don’t need to export files, attach them to messages, or upload anything manually. The person you send it to can open the link and immediately view the video, scan the transcript, or ask the AI a question - no account required. This makes it suitable for internal team updates as well as external communication, customer walkthroughs, design feedback, onboarding guides, and support responses, all of which benefit from clear explanations, asynchronous access, and persistent, searchable output.
Personalized Coaching
Clips doesn’t just capture context - it optionally helps you improve how you deliver it. Every recording comes with built-in coaching insights on:
- Speaking time - spot imbalances.
- Clarity & pacing - see if you’re too fast, slow, or filler-heavy.
- Interruptions - track overlaps and cut-ins.
- Message impact - check if your key points land.
These reports are invaluable for sales calls, internal presentations, and updates where clarity matters most. And because they’re automatic, you get actionable feedback with zero setup - turning every clip into both a communication asset and a coaching tool.
The End of Wasteful Meetings
The goal isn’t to eliminate meetings for the sake of efficiency. It’s to reserve live attention for when it’s genuinely needed and use async communication everywhere else. Many recurring or update-style meetings can be replaced outright. Others can be shortened or front-loaded by sharing a recording before the call, so that live time is used only for questions or decisions.
A Compounding Archive of Knowledge
Finally, your thoughts and meeting notes are now stored alongside all other workplace knowledge. The result? You get a single, unified search & answer bar for your chat threads, meeting transcripts, recorded clips, and all other workspace apps!
When you record something once and make it easy to revisit, extract from, and share, you’re not just avoiding a meeting; you’re creating an asset. You’re capturing not just what was said, but how it was said - and making it available in a way that written notes or secondhand summaries can’t match. This isn’t about replacing meetings with video. It’s about treating explanations, decisions, and shared context as durable knowledge.
So, if you’ve ever thought, “This meeting could’ve been an email,” you were probably right. But it would’ve been a bad one. It should instead have been a Clip.
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