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ChatGPT Meetings plugin (beta)

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verdict

Worked£18,500 recorded as the total for both weekends, with "total" in bold

NotePriya's sign-off on the 28th, with the reason, after she corrected the 21st

BrokeAction items held one entry, assessing the test-environment outage, which nobody agreed to and nobody owns. In the meeting it was a risk with no owner.

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ChatGPT meeting notes: 8/11 on a meeting with 11 traps

One constructed eight-minute checkpoint, eleven traps, one run on 8 October 2026. Five actions were agreed and none made the action list. Asked afterwards, it gave four of them back with owners and dates.

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verdict

Let it draft the summary, then rebuild the action list yourself or ask it for every action with an owner and date. Don't paste its action list into a tracker. It held the total cost, the corrected date and the change of owner, but its one action item was a risk nobody agreed to own, and the VAT fix lost its owner and date when about 25 seconds dropped out of the transcript.

worked

£18,500 recorded as the total for both weekends, with "total" in bold

broke

Action items held one entry, assessing the test-environment outage, which nobody agreed to and nobody owns. In the meeting it was a risk with no owner.

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Test · workWATCH09 Oct 2026

ChatGPT meeting notes: 8/11 on a meeting with 11 traps

ChatGPT's Meetings plugin scored 8/11 on a constructed project meeting. The summary was mostly right. The action list had one item, and nobody agreed to it.

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