Press kit: Cedric for Meetings

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Cedric launches an AI colleague that can attend meetings in your place

Cedric for Meetings joins Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls as a visible participant. He presents slides, answers with live numbers from a team's own tools, and can stand in for someone who can't make it, with a brief they approve first.

ZURICH, 2 November 2026. Cedric, the Zurich startup from SFF Studio, the venture studio of the Swiss Founders Fund, today launched Cedric for Meetings. It takes Cedric, the AI colleague the company released in October, out of chat and into live calls. Cedric joins a call as a guest named Cedric, is admitted by the host like anyone else, and takes part in it.

Most AI tools in meetings listen and send a summary afterwards. People still have to join, look up the numbers and write the follow-ups themselves. Yet many meetings only need someone to share an update, ask one question and report back.

“I hate joining a one-hour meeting just to show a couple of slides or ask one question,” said Benjamin Ben Hattar, co-founder and CTO of Cedric. “So we built a colleague who can do that part. He goes to the call, presents, asks what you wanted to ask and brings the answers back. And nothing leaves without your OK.”

How it works

Before the call. Fifteen minutes before a meeting, Cedric sends a short brief in chat: who is coming, what is still open with them and what to ask.

In the call. Ask him a question out loud and he answers from the tools the team has connected, such as Stripe, HubSpot, Notion or Google Drive. He posts the agenda and keeps time. He presents slides he wrote from the team's material, or a deck someone gave him, and moves to “the pricing slide” when asked. Screen sharing works on Google Meet and Zoom; on Microsoft Teams he takes part by voice and chat.

In your place. When someone can't attend, they ask Cedric to go for them. He first shows a three-part brief: what to tell the room, what to ask and what to hold back. Only what they approve goes in with him. He joins as “Daniel's Cedric”, asks Daniel's questions, commits him to nothing and hands over in the meeting chat if Daniel arrives.

After the call. The notes, emails, calendar invites and CRM updates wait as cards. One tap approves each one and Cedric sends it.

A sales lead stuck on a train, for example, writes to Cedric in Slack: “Join for me and ask them about pricing.” Cedric joins the 2 pm renewal call, explains that Daniel couldn't make it, asks how the new pricing looks to them, and sends Daniel the answer.

Cedric is never hidden. He appears as a named guest and only stays while someone from the team is in the call. During a call he only reads and answers: anything that would change something in an app waits for a person's approval. He works in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch.

Availability

Cedric for Meetings is available at meet-cedric.com. It launched on Product Hunt on 2 November and finished 4th product of the day. New accounts start with 100,000 free credits and no card. Paid plans start at $19 a month, and meeting minutes come out of the plan's credits.

About Cedric

Cedric is an AI colleague for small teams. He works in Slack, Discord, Telegram and his own web app, and now in Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls. People connect the tools they already use and hand him work in plain language; important actions wait for their approval. Cedric came out of the first cohort of SFF Studio, the venture studio of the Swiss Founders Fund. Its founders are Jacopo Trinca, Benjamin Ben Hattar, Ananth Iyer and Ruby Chen.