If you work in the Office of CEO or adjacent, you know what the Rhythm of Business is; it’s the invisible hand that guides how your company operates.  It starts with strategic planning, budgeting, and target setting, but it ripples all the way down to the drumbeat of weekly one on ones and executive staff meetings.

It’s often the Chief of Staff’s job to ensure that the meetings that underpin a company’s Rhythm of Business are well executed; that everyone is prepared, that next steps are captured, that confidential information is safeguarded, that people that missed the meeting are caught up, and that the topics discussed are digestible in a variety of formats; for the board, for the employee base, etc.

Today I am pleased to announce that Ambient has shipped a product release that is purpose built to help Chiefs of Staff and other members of the Office of the CEO modernize and automate their Rhythm of Business.

The crux of this release is about applying AI to a particular type of meeting; meetings that recur. How can we use what happened in previous meetings of a series to sharpen the impact of future meetings?

Here are the key elements of the Ambient Rhythm of Business release:

• Effortless Organization & Meeting Hygiene: When you connect your calendar, Ambient now detects your team meetings and one-on-ones, placing them neatly in a folder in your sidebar navigation. This means all your important meetings, notes, and follow up tasks are organized in one place, with all of the critical information at your fingertips. If you regularly facilitate high profile meetings, this feature is for you.
• Your Personal AI Assistant for Series of Meetings: Work hand in hand with an AI assistant that is intimately familiar with your meeting history, allowing you to extract insights, draft documents, and plan projects effortlessly. It's like having your own private ChatGPT for each meeting series. Prompts like “What are the biggest risks to this initiative?”, “Draft a one-page strategy for our employees,” and “Create a project plan for Key Initiative A” are all within reach.
• Automated Agendas and Pre-reads: Ambient automatically generates concise pre-reads and draft agendas for your recurring meetings based on the content of the previous session, delivering them straight to each participant's inbox. This keeps your team on the same page and ready for productive discussions.
• Safeguard Your Data: Ambient now offers fine-grained privacy settings at the meeting series level, allowing you to customize visibility and share rules for each series individually.  You likely want to handle the Fun Committee differently from the Compensation Committee in terms of privacy settings, and Ambient gives you the nuanced tools to do this.

At Ambient, we want every meeting that underpins your Rhythm of Business to be productive and informed.

We want you to be able to securely leverage the power of AI to make sense of complex, high-stakes discussions and automate follow-up tasks like agendas, summaries, and even project plans.

And of course, we want you to have complete control over the privacy and security nuances of the meetings and email discussions that underpin your operating cadence.

We’d love to show you what we’ve built.  I’ve put a Loom in the comments, but also feel free to grab time with me or Taylor McLoughlin for a walk through.

Please let us know what you think in the comments.