Ask the Chief: AI That Remembers Every Meeting
Koundinya Lanka
February 24, 2026
You just walked into a meeting with a prospect you spoke to three months ago. What did you discuss? What did they care about? What did you promise? If you are like most professionals, you are scrambling through old notes, Slack messages, and email threads trying to reconstruct context. Ask the Chief eliminates that scramble entirely.
The Problem: Scattered Meeting Intelligence
The information generated in meetings is among the most valuable data in any organization. Decisions are made, commitments are given, strategies are debated, and relationships are built. But all of that knowledge gets trapped in individual memories, scattered notes, and siloed transcripts.
Traditional search tools do not help much. Keyword search across transcripts returns hundreds of results with no context. You end up reading through pages of dialogue to find the one sentence that matters. The information exists somewhere in your meeting history, but finding it takes longer than it should.
We built Ask the Chief to solve this. It is a conversational AI that has perfect recall of every meeting you have ever recorded with Karnyx. You ask questions in natural language, and it retrieves precise, cited answers from your meeting history.
In-Meeting Chat: Ask Questions During a Call
Ask the Chief works in real time during active meetings. As the conversation unfolds, you can ask questions about the current discussion or about past meetings with the same participants.
For example, during a product review, you might ask: "What did we decide about the onboarding flow last sprint?" The AI searches across your meeting history, finds the relevant discussion, and gives you a concise answer with a link to the source meeting and timestamp. No one on the call even knows you looked it up. The context appears silently in your Karnyx sidebar while you stay fully engaged in the conversation.
Cross-Meeting Search: Your Organizational Memory
Ask the Chief truly shines when you need to search across your entire meeting history. Unlike keyword search, it understands semantic meaning. You do not need to remember the exact words that were spoken. You describe what you are looking for, and the AI finds it.
Decision Recall
"What did we decide about pricing for the enterprise tier?" — Ask the Chief finds every meeting where enterprise pricing was discussed, synthesizes the decisions, and shows you the evolution of the conversation over time.
Commitment Tracking
"What did Jordan promise to deliver by end of Q1?" — The AI searches for commitments made by a specific person and returns a structured list with dates, deadlines, and completion status.
Topic Deep Dive
"Summarize everything we have discussed about the mobile app in the last 30 days." — Get a synthesized overview of a topic across multiple meetings, including who contributed and what was decided.
Preparation Aid
"What should I know before my meeting with Acme Corp tomorrow?" — The AI pulls together your entire history with that company: past meetings, open action items, key contacts, and unresolved topics.
People and Company Context
Ask the Chief is deeply integrated with the Karnyx people graph. Every person and company you interact with has a rich context profile built from your meeting history. When you ask a question about a specific person or organization, the AI draws on this graph to provide comprehensive, relationship-aware answers.
Ask "What is our history with Acme Corp?" and you get a timeline of every interaction: meetings, key participants, decisions made, action items exchanged, and the overall trajectory of the relationship. Ask "How does Maria typically respond to timeline pushbacks?" and the AI analyzes your past interactions with that person to give you useful context for your next conversation.
Imagine having a colleague with perfect memory who attended every meeting you have ever had. That is Ask the Chief.
Privacy and Security
A conversational AI with access to all your meetings is powerful, which means it must be built with rigorous access controls. Ask the Chief respects every permission boundary in Karnyx.
- Users can only query meetings they have access to. Ask the Chief never surfaces content from meetings outside your permission scope.
- All queries and responses are encrypted in transit and at rest, using the same AES-256 encryption that protects your transcripts.
- Organization administrators can configure which meeting types are searchable via Ask the Chief, keeping sensitive categories like HR reviews or board meetings restricted.
- Query history is private to each user and can be deleted at any time. We never use your queries to train models or share them with third parties.
Start a Conversation
Ask the Chief is available to all Karnyx users. Open the command palette, type your question, and let the AI surface the answers trapped in your meeting history. The more meetings you record, the smarter it gets. Your institutional knowledge is no longer locked in people's heads — it is searchable, citable, and always available.