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For executivesOct 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Why AI meeting action items go wrong, and what to check

AI meeting action items go wrong in one direction: owners and dates nobody said, decisions filed as tasks, open questions closed. What to check before you send.

The Chief team

A four-row action list: Follow up with the partner team, Owner: Sam; Update the launch page, Due Friday; Launch moves to June 15, crossed out and re-filed as a ticket owned by Priya; Tell beta customers first?, marked Closed.

A Live Session in the Chief desktop app, with the transcript on the left and a chat tab on the right streaming an answer with inline citations.

Product updatesOct 9, 2026 · 5 min read

Look something up during a meeting without leaving the call

Research a question during a meeting with AI: ask Chief in the Live Session. It answers in its own chat and can use the web, your project and the call so far.

The Chief desktop Decisions view during a call: three product decisions, each with the minute it was said, above the Send to, Copy and Ask Chief buttons.

For buildersOct 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Building got cheap. Deciding what to build didn't.

AI made code cheap, but deciding what to build is as hard as ever. Where teams make that decision, why they lose it, and how to hand it to the build.

A Chief session summary on the web, filtered to Decisions, with four settled points under their topics, each tagged Decisions.

For executivesOct 5, 2026 · 8 min read

What a chief of staff does: share the record, keep judgement

A chief of staff runs a leader's time, information and decisions. See which part a team can share, the record, and which still needs a person's judgement.

Live Notes in the Chief desktop app, with the To-dos and Decisions chips in the toolbar and tagged points below.

For executivesOct 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Leave the meeting with decisions and to-dos already sorted

Track decisions and action items from meetings while the call runs: Chief's To-dos and Decisions tags apply themselves. Six steps, limits and an FAQ.

Chief desktop view of the items tagged Decisions in a live session: three notes, the first a decision to keep a billing migration behind a flag until the backfill finishes.

For buildersOct 3, 2026 · 10 min read

The spec got shorter. Its decisions still come from a call.

Spec-driven development with AI pays when the spec records the decisions a model would otherwise make for you. When to write one, when to skip it.

Chief's Session ended sheet with the Send to AI agent card showing Claude Code as the destination, a Delivered status and a Send again button.

Product updatesOct 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Hand a finished meeting to Claude Code or Codex

Send a finished meeting to Claude Code or Codex. Chief writes a git-ignored context folder into your project and opens the agent in your terminal to read it.

Chief's offer card with Add in Linear on the left, and the Create Linear issue card with team, state, priority, assignee and Approve on the right.

Product updatesOct 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Turn a meeting into Linear issues without leaving the call

Create Linear issues from meetings: Chief offers one during the call, and you file it from a card with Approve, unless you've pre-approved that kind of write.

162repos in 90 days, median 3 stars

ResearchAug 15, 2026 · 10 min read

We counted the weekend builds: 162 repos, median 3 stars, 58 already stale

In a 90-day window to 2026-08-15, 162 new repos matched meeting capture and agent memory. Median 3 stars, 113 at five or fewer, 58 with no push in a month.

Meet Chief: The Chief of Staff for AI-Native Executives

From our CEOApr 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Meet Chief: The Chief of Staff for AI-Native Executives

Storytell is now Chief. We have a big vision that needed a new name. Here are the details.