Meets: Portail sits in your meetings, takes the notes, and answers when you say its name
Portail now has a Meets page. Press Start listening and Portail keeps a live transcript of the meeting, writes the notes as people talk (a short summary, the decisions, and the action items with who owns them), and answers when someone says "Portail," followed by a question. It works for a meeting around a table and for any call app, because it listens through your browser; in Chrome or Edge it can also hear a call running in another tab. Ask out loud or from the meeting page for a doc, a plan, a timeline, a checklist, a follow-up email or the next agenda, and it shows up on the page before the meeting is over. When the meeting ends, the final notes land in your inbox. Later, ask about any past meeting from an ordinary chat: what did we decide in Tuesday's sync? Portail keeps the transcript, the notes and what it made, never the audio, and you accept a short recording notice before the first meeting, because everyone in the room should know. Sending Portail into a Google Meet, Zoom or Teams call as its own participant, from a link or straight from your calendar, is coming soon on paid plans and is marked Soon on the page. Meets is in beta. Tell us what it hears wrong.
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A new Meets page in the sidebar. Press Start listening and Portail transcribes the room through your microphone, on every plan.
In Chrome or Edge, switch on Also hear a call in another tab and Portail hears both sides of a call that runs in your browser. Wear headphones so the call isn't heard twice.
Notes write themselves while you talk: a summary, the decisions, and action items with owners and due dates. Tick items off, add your own or rewrite the summary; Portail keeps your edits when it refreshes.
Say "Portail," and a question, and the answer appears on the meeting page. Say "Portail, stop listening" and it stops on the spot.
Ask for a doc, plan, timeline, checklist, follow-up email or next agenda, out loud or with one click. Copy it or download it as Markdown.
The Ask Portail panel on the meeting page is private to you, and it can look things up in your connected apps (read-only) while the meeting runs.
When a meeting ends you get the notes by email. Turn that off in Meets settings.
Ask about past meetings from any chat. Portail reads the notes, or the exact words when you need them, and answers from what was actually said.
Portail keeps the transcript, notes and docs, never the audio. Delete one meeting or all of them whenever you like.
Coming soon on paid plans: send Portail into a Google Meet, Zoom or Teams call from a link or your Google Calendar, or let it join your calendar meetings by itself (all of them, or all except one-on-ones). It posts a notice in the call's chat and answers there.
Meetings stop at eight hours. Transcription and answers use credits like chat does.
Portail v2.12.0 shipped on 2026-11-13 as a minor release focused on meets: portail sits in your meetings, takes the notes, and answers when you say its name. Portail now has a Meets page. Press Start listening and Portail keeps a live transcript of the meeting, writes the notes as people talk (a short summary, the decisions, and the action items with who owns them), and answers when someone says "Portail," followed by a question. It works for a meeting around a table and for any call app, because it listens through your browser; in Chrome or Edge it can also hear a call running in another tab. Ask out loud or from the meeting page for a doc, a plan, a timeline, a checklist, a follow-up email or the next agenda, and it shows up on the page before the meeting is over. When the meeting ends, the final notes land in your inbox. Later, ask about any past meeting from an ordinary chat: what did we decide in Tuesday's sync? Portail keeps the transcript, the notes and what it made, never the audio, and you accept a short recording notice before the first meeting, because everyone in the room should know. Sending Portail into a Google Meet, Zoom or Teams call as its own participant, from a link or straight from your calendar, is coming soon on paid plans and is marked Soon on the page. Meets is in beta. Tell us what it hears wrong. The work is recorded here because small releases are still product history. They change how people sign in, read responses, pay for access, share conversations, open files, or trust the system when something goes wrong.
This was more than a quiet maintenance pass. A minor release changes how a visible part of Portail behaves, how a larger workflow is framed, or how a user understands the product. The important part is not only that the feature exists. The important part is that it joins the rest of the system without making the chat harder to use. Portail is useful because context travels with the user. Every larger release has to protect that feeling.
The main changes were direct: a new meets page in the sidebar. press start listening and portail transcribes the room through your microphone, on every plan, in chrome or edge, switch on also hear a call in another tab and portail hears both sides of a call that runs in your browser. wear headphones so the call isn't heard twice, notes write themselves while you talk: a summary, the decisions, and action items with owners and due dates. tick items off, add your own or rewrite the summary; portail keeps your edits when it refreshes, say "portail," and a question, and the answer appears on the meeting page. say "portail, stop listening" and it stops on the spot, ask for a doc, plan, timeline, checklist, follow-up email or next agenda, out loud or with one click. copy it or download it as markdown, the ask portail panel on the meeting page is private to you, and it can look things up in your connected apps (read-only) while the meeting runs, when a meeting ends you get the notes by email. turn that off in meets settings, ask about past meetings from any chat. portail reads the notes, or the exact words when you need them, and answers from what was actually said, portail keeps the transcript, notes and docs, never the audio. delete one meeting or all of them whenever you like, coming soon on paid plans: send portail into a google meet, zoom or teams call from a link or your google calendar, or let it join your calendar meetings by itself (all of them, or all except one-on-ones). it posts a notice in the call's chat and answers there, and meetings stop at eight hours. transcription and answers use credits like chat does. That list is intentionally plain. It names what changed without turning the release into theatre. When a release fixes a build, a redirect, a storage path, or a UI edge case, the value is often that users stop noticing the problem. The archive keeps that invisible work visible enough for future debugging and for anyone checking whether Portail has cared about the details over time.
For this release, the archive points back to the verified commit trail instead of relying on memory. The title, date, and highlights come from the repository history around v2.12.0. That matters because a release log should be boringly checkable. If someone wants to know why a feature appeared, why a page changed, or why a billing rule behaves differently, the public record and the engineering record should not disagree.
This version also fits into the wider Portail contract. One account, one chat history, and one model picker only work if the smaller pieces keep their promises. Authentication has to fail clearly. Billing has to count honestly. Uploads have to arrive in a form models can read. Admin tools have to show the operator what happened instead of hiding it behind a blank screen. v2.12.0 moved that contract forward in its own narrow lane.
The product lesson is also worth naming. Portail grew quickly through chat, admin, billing, Canvas, Omniverse, Agents, and the coding hand-off bridge. Features landed close together, and some releases bundled polish with deeper infrastructure. This post separates the user-facing promise from the implementation noise. It says what the release changed, why that mattered, and where it sits in the product timeline.
The screenshots attached to this entry show the public release record as it now appears on portail.cc. For older releases, this archive was rebuilt from the git history, package version changes, release modal text, and commit subjects. That means the page is honest about its source: it documents the shipped change and preserves the record going forward, even when the exact old production screen cannot be recreated from a single saved image.
The practical result is simple. Someone landing on this page can see the version number, date, release tier, headline, highlights, and a real rendered screenshot of the archive page. Search engines can index the post through the canonical URL, sitemap entry, and structured data. Future releases now have a standard to meet before deploy, so the history should get cleaner from here instead of fuzzier.
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