Meeting prep
Prepare for a meeting without reopening five chats.
The analysis is already done. It’s just scattered — across a few sessions, a report, a thread you’d have to go find. Giraffe keeps the result in one project, so the ten minutes before a meeting are calm.
Why prep feels harder than the work
A serious piece of work rarely happens in one sitting anymore. You start an analysis in the morning, come back to it after lunch, pick it up again the next day in a different tool. By the time the meeting arrives, the conclusions you actually need — the current numbers, the calls you made, the things still unresolved — are spread across everything you touched.
So you spend the last ten minutes scrolling back through old conversations, trying to reconstruct what you already knew. The answer exists. You just can’t find it quickly, and you’re about to walk in.
What Giraffe does instead
As you work, you save the conclusions to a project — the current facts, the decisions, the open questions. Not the whole transcript; just the part you’ll want again. When something changes, you update it, and the project always reflects where things actually stand.
Before the meeting, you open that one project and read it. Thirty seconds, no hunting. You walk in knowing the numbers, what was decided and what’s still open — because it’s all in front of you, in plain language, in one place.
What that looks like
Say you have a renewal conversation coming up with an account. Over the past two weeks you looked at their usage, their contract, and who’s now involved — a bit at a time, in more than one place. Here’s the project you’d open on your way into the room:
Meridian — renewal review
- Current facts
- Contract renews Nov 1. Current spend is $84k a year.
- Usage is down 18% since March; two of five seats are inactive.
- Our main champion moved teams in June. New contact is Raj, in operations.
- Decisions
- Lead with the one workflow they use every day, not the full platform.
- Offer a two-year renewal at the current price — no increase this cycle.
- Open questions
- Does Raj own the budget now, or has it moved to finance?
- Is the drop in seats a reorganization, or an early sign of churn?
That’s the whole meeting in a glance: what’s true right now, what you’ve already decided, and the two things you still need to find out. You didn’t reopen a single old chat to get here.
Most of the time, reading the project is all you need. When you do want to take it further — draft the renewal note, pressure-test the pricing — you can hand the same context to an assistant and keep going. Reading first, continuing only when it helps, is exactly how Giraffe works.