Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
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MeetTwins wants to join your Google Meet calls as an AI stand-in. It can answer only what you pre-approve — and your coworkers can boot it with /stop.
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An Indian developer is building an app for people who’d rather send a machine to the meeting. MeetTwins is in beta recruitment now, and its whole job is to log into Google Meet on behalf of its user, answer only the questions it was told to handle, and then get out of the way.
The pitch is blunt. Tell it what it’s allowed to say, upload any files or documents people might ask for, and mark certain subjects as off limits. If a topic falls outside that brief, MeetTwins is supposed to hand the question back to its human operator instead of improvising. After the call, it emails a summary of what came up and any loose ends.
Aditya Shinde, who is developing the tool, says the idea came from wanting an AI bot to take his own Google Meet calls. He built it with models from Sarvam, an India-based AI firm, and says users can add a digital twin avatar from Simli if they want a face for the bot as well.
The early use cases are familiar office drudgery: status updates, student scheduling chaos, and routine sales or customer check-ins. That last one feels like the sort of thing that will make some people roll their eyes into next week, especially since Shinde says MeetTwins is meant only for approved answers and won’t promise anything that needs human judgment.
And yes, he knows people may hate this. If someone in the meeting is uncomfortable, they can type “/stop” in the chat and the bot leaves immediately. Shinde also says the bot is clearly labeled as AI and announces itself when it first speaks, which he believes helps build trust. That may be true in the abstract. In actual meetings, trust is a fragile thing, and a stand-in that can be politely kicked out is still a stand-in.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the sort of product that tells on office culture more than it fixes it. If a meeting can be handled by a brief, a bot, and an email summary, the meeting was already a bad use of everyone’s time. The real innovation here is the honesty: companies will automate the boring bits right up until they automate the social awkwardness too.
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