Three months of Groupthink: what’s actually different

If you tried Groupthink earlier this year and have not opened it in a while, the product you remember is not the product running today. The headline change is that Groupthink is no longer a meeting note-taking tool with relationship features bolted on. It is a relationship intelligence layer for your work, and meetings are how it learns.

Your contacts have moved to the center

The biggest change is that relationships are now the primary surface, not a side feature. There is a dedicated Intelligence Hub at /intelligence that opens with a daily brief: what is on your calendar, who you are about to see, and which of your relationships are going quiet.

A few specific things that were not there before:

• Meeting prep cards appear on every agenda page before a meeting starts. Each external attendee gets a card with their background, your past meetings together, a LinkedIn link, and a quick conversation tip. You can walk in without having to dig through past recaps.
• Frequency tracking and going-cold alerts. Set how often you actually want to be in touch with someone (weekly, monthly, quarterly), and Groupthink will tell you when you are drifting. The Relationships page has a Going Cold filter that shows exactly who is at risk.
• One-click promotion of intel from meetings to contacts. When something useful surfaces in a recap (a person’s role change, a project they own, a preference they mentioned), you can move it onto the contact dossier with a single click. Over a few weeks the dossiers fill themselves in.
• Related people suggestions in the post-meeting modal. After a meeting ends, Groupthink looks at who came up and offers to add or update those people for you.
• Org chart import so new accounts do not start empty. If you have a team roster, an org chart PDF, or a spreadsheet of names, you can upload it during onboarding (or anytime from the Relationships page) and Groupthink will build skeleton dossiers for everyone. They enrich as you have meetings.

The shift is real. The Relationships page is the right place to start your day now, not the meeting list.

Recording starts on its own

Manual capture is mostly gone. If your calendar attendance setting says you want Groupthink in a meeting, recording starts when the meeting starts. No clicks.

• Open the app while a meeting is in progress and it takes you straight to that meeting’s agenda. No more landing on the dashboard and hunting for the live event.
• Set your calendar to “Automatically Join All” and the bot joins itself. Set it to “Privately Take Notes” and the desktop app captures the audio directly. “Let Me Choose Each Time” still works if you prefer the old behavior.
• When meetings run back-to-back, a transition card appears at the top of the current recap as soon as your next meeting is within ten minutes. One click moves you over.

For people who live in back-to-back meetings, this is the single largest quality-of-life change in the product. You stop losing the first three minutes of every call to setup.

Recaps are no longer a single fixed format

Two new features changed how recaps work after the meeting:

• Note Templates restructure the recap into named sections you define. Pick from seven built-in templates (Customer Discovery, 1:1, Standup, Sales Call, Interview, Post-Mortem, Default) or create custom workspace templates. Applying a template is non-destructive: it shows you an alternate view, it does not overwrite the original notes.
• Recipes apply an open-ended AI prompt to a recap. “Rewrite this as an executive summary.” “Just the action items.” “Pull out the customer’s exact words about pricing.” Pick a recipe from the dropdown on the recap header, watch the recap regenerate in place.

Underneath all of this, structured extraction runs on every meeting automatically. Decisions, action items, and key intel get pulled out of the transcript and shown inline on the recap, so you do not have to apply anything to see them.

Smaller things that add up

• The trial is now 30 days, not 5 meetings. Same upgrade path, much clearer window for evaluation.
• Gifted recap emails: when a Pro subscriber records a meeting, every attendee gets the recap automatically, including attendees on free plans. Real value to share, not a marketing gate.
• Freeform note ingestion: paste in notes from a meeting Groupthink did not record (a phone call, a hallway conversation) and they get processed alongside captured meetings, including relationship updates.
• Auto-join is now off by default for users who signed up through a shared meeting link. If you arrived via someone else’s invite, Groupthink will not start showing up in your meetings until you tell it to.
• Bot recording-denial notifications, so if the bot gets refused entry, you find out instead of discovering it post-hoc when there is no recap.

MCP for Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants

Outside the three-month window but worth flagging because it is the biggest customer-facing surface we have shipped in over a year. Groupthink is now an MCP server. Any MCP-compatible AI assistant (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, others) can use Groupthink on your behalf: send the bot into meetings, read transcripts and notes, look up relationships, write notes back. Setup is one API token and a config snippet. Full setup guide at /docs/mcp_server.

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If you have not opened Groupthink in a while, the Intelligence Hub at /intelligence is the right first stop. If you are setting it up fresh, the import-your-team step during onboarding is the highest-leverage thing you can do in the first ten minutes.