AI Notetaker joins 2 minutes early: add a timing setting

Hi everyone,

AI Notetaker currently joins every meeting 2 minutes before the scheduled start time, and as far as I can see there’s no setting to change this.

For client-facing teams this creates an awkward moment: external participants often arrive early and are greeted by the bot before anyone from our team has joined, sometimes before we’ve had a chance to explain that the meeting will be transcribed.

The current workarounds aren’t ideal:

  • Switching off auto-join and inviting the Notetaker manually means it’s easy to forget.

  • Keeping it in the lobby only works when we’re the meeting host.

It would be very helpful to have a setting (per user or account-level) to choose when the Notetaker joins, for example:

  • at the scheduled start time,

  • X minutes before or after the start, or

  • only once the organiser or a member of our team has joined.

Is anyone else running into this? And has anyone found a better workaround in the meantime?

Thanks!

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