Introducing Lenses: Your AI Meeting Analyst
Koundinya Lanka
February 21, 2026
Every meeting produces a transcript. But a transcript is raw material, not insight. You do not read a full 45-minute transcript to find out whether your sales call went well or what your team committed to this week. You need a focused analysis tuned to a specific question. That is exactly what Lenses do.
What Are Lenses?
A Lens is a specialized AI analysis that transforms a meeting transcript into structured, actionable output tailored to a specific purpose. Think of it as giving your AI analyst a brief: look at this meeting through this particular angle, and tell me what matters.
Other tools in this space use rigid templates or static recipes that produce the same boilerplate regardless of context. We chose the concept of a Lens because it better reflects what actually happens: the same meeting looks different depending on who is viewing it and why. A sales lead cares about objections and next steps. A manager cares about team dynamics and blockers. A founder cares about strategic alignment. Lenses let each person get the analysis that matters to them.
How Lenses Work
Running a Lens is as simple as typing a forward-slash command in the meeting detail view. Type/lens coach-me and the AI analyzes the transcript through a coaching framework. Type/lens sales-debrief and you get a structured deal analysis.
Lenses operate in two modes. A single-meeting Lens analyzes one transcript in isolation, giving you a focused breakdown of that specific conversation. A cross-meeting Lens aggregates data across multiple meetings over a time window, surfacing patterns, trends, and themes that would be invisible in any single session.
Results appear inline in the meeting view. You can pin Lens results to a meeting for permanent reference, share them with teammates, or export them as structured documents.
Five System Lenses to Start With
Karnyx ships with a library of pre-built system Lenses designed for common use cases. Here are five of the most popular:
Coach Me
Analyzes your speaking patterns, identifies filler words, measures talk-to-listen ratio, and provides specific suggestions for improving communication effectiveness. Ideal for anyone who wants to become a better communicator in meetings.
Sales Debrief
Extracts prospect objections, identifies buying signals, maps decision-maker engagement, scores deal health, and generates recommended next steps. Run it after every prospect call to build a structured deal narrative.
Weekly Digest
A cross-meeting Lens that aggregates all your meetings from the past week into a single executive summary: decisions made, action items assigned, topics discussed, and open questions. Perfect for your Monday morning review.
Decision Log
Scans the transcript for every decision point, captures the context and reasoning behind each decision, identifies who made the call, and flags decisions that were deferred. Produces a clean, auditable record.
Risk Radar
Identifies potential risks, blockers, concerns, and escalations mentioned during the meeting. Categorizes them by severity and assigns follow-up recommendations. Essential for project managers running standups and status calls.
Creating Custom Lenses
System Lenses cover common scenarios, but every team has unique needs. Custom Lenses let you define your own analysis prompts and output structures. You write a natural language instruction describing what you want the AI to extract and how to format the results.
For example, a customer success team might create a Lens called "Churn Signals" that looks for expressions of frustration, feature requests that indicate unmet needs, mentions of competitor products, and any language suggesting the customer is evaluating alternatives. A product team might build a "Feature Request Tracker" that extracts every feature mentioned by customers across a month of calls.
Custom Lenses can be shared across your organization. Once someone builds a Lens that works well, the entire team benefits. Over time, your Lens library becomes a knowledge asset that encodes your team's analytical frameworks.
A transcript tells you what was said. A Lens tells you what it means. That is the difference between data and intelligence.
Why Lenses Instead of Recipes
Some tools in the meeting intelligence space offer what they call recipes or templates. These tend to be rigid, one-size-fits-all operations: summarize the meeting, extract action items, list key topics. Useful, but limited.
Lenses are fundamentally different. They are contextual, composable, and perspective-driven. You can run multiple Lenses on the same meeting and get different, complementary analyses. You can create Lenses that build on each other. And because Lenses work across meetings, they can surface longitudinal patterns that no single-meeting recipe can detect. The metaphor is intentional: the same scene looks different through a telephoto lens versus a wide angle. Your meetings deserve the same analytical flexibility.
Try Lenses Today
Lenses are available to all Karnyx users starting today. Open any meeting, type a forward-slash command, and see your meeting through an entirely new perspective. Start with the system Lenses, then build your own. Your meetings have more to tell you than you think.