Use case · Meetings
The meeting that ends in work.
Put Cedric on the invite like any coworker. It runs the agenda if you hand it the chair, keeps the minutes either way, and the action items actually happen.
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- Most meeting cost is not the hour, it is the decisions that evaporate afterwards because nobody wrote them down or chased them.
- Cedric joins from the call link or the calendar invite, and moderates end to end when you hand it the chair: agenda kept, timeboxes held.
- Every decision is logged with an owner, and the minutes are in the channel by the time people are back at their desks.
- Action items become tracked work with owners and dates, and the chasing is Cedric's job, not the organiser's.
- The follow-up gets booked before everyone scatters, so the next session exists without a scheduling thread.
- Anything Cedric picks up to do from the meeting waits for approval before it sends, changes, or spends anything.
The expensive part is what happens after
The visible cost of a meeting is the hour. The invisible one starts when the call ends: the write-up nobody does, the decision living in one person's memory, the action items that belong to nobody by Thursday.
Cedric is the participant whose whole job is that the meeting produces work: it keeps the agenda moving, records decisions with owners, posts the minutes, books the next session, and chases the action items so a human does not have to be the annoying one.
Moderated end to end
Hand it the chair and the agenda holds.
Priya Sharma9:14 AM
@Cedric run tomorrow's sprint planning. Agenda: carry-over review, the release date call, capacity for next sprint. 45 minutes, hard stop.
CedricAPP9:15 AM
Set. I'm on the invite and will chair: three agenda items, timeboxed 10, 20, and 10 minutes with 5 spare. I'll hold the room to the timeboxes, log decisions with owners as they land, and post minutes to #product within minutes of the close. If the release date call needs data (open ticket counts, last sprint's velocity), I'll have it ready to paste in when the item opens.
The agenda is enforced
When an item's timebox closes, Cedric says so and moves the room on, which is the thing human chairs find socially hardest.
Decisions get owners
A decision is only logged once it has an owner attached, so nothing leaves the meeting as everyone's job.
Prepared, not just present
Cedric can bring the numbers an agenda item needs from the tools you have connected, so the room decides instead of estimating.
The paper trail
Minutes in the channel before you sit down.
CedricAPP10:02 AM
Minutes from sprint planning, 32 minutes: carried over 3 tickets (owner: Priya), release date confirmed for the 26th on the strength of current burn-down (decision, owner: Marco), next sprint capacity set at 80% for conference week. Action items: Marco drafts the release note by Friday, Yara books the load test slot. Follow-up booked for Tuesday 10:00, same channel. Full minutes attached. I'll nudge Marco and Yara on Thursday if their items are still open.
Same-day is too slow
The minutes land while the meeting is still warm, when a wrong decision or a missed nuance still gets corrected.
Action items are chased
Each item has an owner and a date, and Cedric does the reminding. The organiser stops being the team's memory.
The follow-up exists
The next session is on calendars before everyone scatters, which kills the week-long scheduling thread.
Bringing Cedric into a meeting
Two ways in, both under a minute.
- 01
Drop the call link in the thread, or put Cedric on the invite
Either works. On the invite, Cedric shows up like any coworker, on time, without being reminded. In the thread, mention Cedric with the link and it joins that one call.
Cedric only attends meetings it is invited to. It never joins on its own.
- 02
Decide how much to hand over
Silent minute-keeper, or the chair. Give it an agenda and timeboxes and it runs the session; give it nothing and it just writes everything down and answers when someone addresses it by name.
- 03
Approve what it picked up
If the meeting produced work for Cedric (book the follow-up, draft the release note, chase two people on Thursday), each action waits for an approval before anything is sent, changed, or spent.
This is the standing rule everywhere in Cedric, not a meetings feature. Nothing irreversible happens without a person saying go.
What a recurring meeting actually costs, in plain arithmetic. Six people, forty-five minutes, weekly. Substitute your own numbers.
- 4.5hperson-hours spent per occurrence (6 × 45 min)
- 216hperson-hours a year at 48 working weeks
- 27eight-hour working days of team time, every year, for one recurring meeting
Arithmetic as stated: 6 people × 45 minutes × 48 weeks. No external study involved.
Against the alternatives
| Rotating note-taker | Transcription app | Cedric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the agenda | The chair, if they have the nerve | Nobody | Cedric, when handed the chair, timeboxes included |
| What you get after | Notes of varying quality, sometimes | A wall of transcript to read | Minutes: decisions with owners, action items with dates |
| Action items | Live in the notes, die in the notes | Buried somewhere in the text | Tracked and chased until done, by Cedric |
| The follow-up | A scheduling thread | Not its job | Booked before the call ends |
| Can act on outcomes | No | No | Yes, with an approval gate on every action |
A transcript is a record. Minutes with owners are a plan.
Where this does not help
Cedric moderates process, not substance. It will hold the timebox on the pricing debate, and it will log what you decided, but it does not have a view on what your pricing should be. The judgment stays in the room.
It attends what it is invited to, nothing else. There is no ambient listening and no auto-joining, so if nobody adds Cedric, that meeting happened off the record as usual.
A meeting that is really a negotiation, a hard personnel conversation, or a brainstorm with no decisions to log does not gain much from a moderator. Use it where structure pays: recurring team meetings, planning, reviews, standups.
And if the room decides to ignore the agenda, Cedric will say the timebox closed, once. It moderates, it does not enforce. A team determined to spend forty minutes on item one still can.
FAQ
Drop the call link in the thread and mention Cedric, or put it on the calendar invite like any coworker. On the invite, it joins on time by itself, every occurrence.
No. By default it keeps minutes and answers when addressed by name. Chairing (agenda, timeboxes, moving the room along) only happens when you hand it the chair and give it an agenda.
Into the channel the meeting belongs to, minutes after the close: decisions with owners, action items with dates, and the follow-up booking. The full record is attached, the summary is readable in Slack without opening anything.
They become tracked work. Each has an owner and a date, and Cedric nudges the owner when a date approaches or passes. The chasing stops being a human's job.
Yes, and this is where the approval rule matters: booking the follow-up, drafting the document, chasing the two people, each waits for a person to approve it before anything is sent, changed, or spent.
Cedric is priced per work done, not per seat, and signup comes with $50 in free credits and no card. A weekly meeting's minutes cost a fraction of the salary hour they replace. See [pricing](/pricing) for the exact numbers.
Ready when you are
Put Cedric on the next invite.
Add it to your Slack in about 30 seconds, then hand it a meeting. $50 in free credits, no card needed.
$50 in free credits, no card needed.