AI Insights PRO
AI-powered transcription, meeting summaries, cost-reduction recommendations, and efficiency scoring. MeetingCost uses a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) model — you connect your own AI provider account, so your data stays at wholesale rates and never passes through MeetingCost servers.
Supported AI Providers
| Provider | Best for | Get a key |
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| AssemblyAI | High-accuracy transcription with speaker diarization | assemblyai.com |
| OpenAI Whisper | Fast transcription + GPT-4 summaries and feedback | platform.openai.com |
| Deepgram | Low-latency real-time transcription | deepgram.com |
| Google Gemini | Integrated Google ecosystem, strong summarization | aistudio.google.com |
| Hugging Face | Open-source models, privacy-focused | huggingface.co |
| Rev.ai | Human-level accuracy, compliance-grade transcription | rev.ai |
Setting Up AI
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1Select your AI Provider In the AI Insights panel, choose your provider from the dropdown. A link to get an API key appears below the dropdown.
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2Enter your API Key Paste your API key into the API Key field. The key is stored in your browser session memory only — it is never written to local storage or the cloud and must be re-entered after Chrome restarts.
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3Test the connection Click Test Connection to verify your key works. A green status indicator confirms the provider is reachable.
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4Enable Auto-Transcribe (optional) Toggle Auto-transcribe to have MeetingCost begin transcribing automatically when a supported meeting is detected. You can also start transcription manually during a meeting.
Starting Transcription
There are two ways to start a transcription session:
- Auto-transcribe: Enable this in settings and transcription starts automatically when you join a meeting on a supported platform.
- Manual — Start Tab Capture: Click Start Tab Capture in the popup or AI Insights panel while in a meeting. This captures audio from the meeting tab and sends it to your AI provider. Works on Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, and Webex over HTTPS.
chrome:// pages.AI Usage Tracking
The AI Insights panel shows a usage meter tracking how much AI processing you've consumed this month. This uses the limits of your chosen provider's plan — MeetingCost does not impose additional limits. If you set a monthly minutes limit in settings, MeetingCost will warn you when you're approaching it.
AI Meeting Feedback
After a meeting ends and transcription is complete, MeetingCost generates structured AI feedback including:
| Feedback Item | Description |
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| Meeting Summary | A concise summary of what was discussed, decided, and what action items were identified. |
| Cost Efficiency Score (0–100) | Was the cost of this meeting justified by its outcomes? |
| Decision Quality Score (0–100) | How clearly were decisions reached and documented? |
| Action Clarity Score (0–100) | How specific and assigned were the next steps? |
| Async Replacement Likelihood | High / Medium / Low — could this meeting have been an email or async update? |
| Cost Reduction Recommendations | Specific suggestions for reducing cost: fewer participants, shorter duration, moving to async, etc. |
| Waste Signals | Patterns detected that typically indicate meeting waste — off-topic discussion, unclear agenda, decision loops, etc. |
Transcript History
The AI Insights panel keeps a scrollable history of recent meeting transcripts and summaries (up to 80 entries). You can browse previous meetings, review their summaries, and see how efficiency scores have changed over time. Each entry is timestamped and labelled with the meeting type if you've set it.
AI Score Write-Back to Recurring Patterns
When AI feedback is generated for a meeting, MeetingCost automatically detects whether that meeting is part of a recurring pattern (e.g. "client call every Saturday"). If so, the AI ROI score is written back to the Recurring Patterns panel, populating the ROI score on that recurring series without any manual action needed.