Meetings and interviews
Use Zinley to prepare for a meeting, keep your talking points together, and follow up on decisions. Treat joining a live meeting as a separate action that needs an available connection and confirmation.
Open it
On desktop or mobile, open Home → Calendar and select the event. You can also open a meeting from Action Center → For you → Coming up. Use Ask or the agent question control on the event for contextual help.
Prepare from the event
Check the date, timezone, participants, place, and meeting link. The event can show the agent's preparation, when it was prepared, the sources used, and what it did to the event. Open the linked Chat or source for the detail.
A preparation state matters: not checked yet, insufficient context, partial, and unavailable mean different things. An empty note does not prove there is nothing to prepare. Add your own agenda and ask the agent to preserve your talking points.
“For this supplier meeting, read our latest thread and prepare the outstanding delivery questions. Keep my three talking points unchanged. Do not contact attendees.”
Use the mobile meeting tabs
Current mobile meeting sheets show the tabs that have available context. If only preparation is available, the tab bar can be absent. Older server responses may keep the information together.
| Tab | What to inspect |
|---|---|
| Prep | Your points, the agent's preparation, and the action trail. Your saved talking points are separate from the agent's generated preparation when supported. |
| People | The available profiles, facts, open items, and recent interactions for attendees. A person already saved in People can open their profile; Not in People yet is not a saved profile. |
| Context | From the invite, Earlier meetings, related work, and What your agent used. Open the available email, Chat, or meeting source to inspect it. |
A missing tab or Some sources couldn’t be read does not prove no relevant history exists. Supply the missing context or ask the agent to check again before relying on the preparation.
Join deliberately
Join opens the available meeting link. Confirm the account and room you are entering. It does not, by itself, prove your agent is attending.
If you ask the agent to join through a supported browser, phone, or device workflow, specify whether it acts on your behalf or by your side, its disclosed AI identity, when it may speak, and what it must not commit to. Confirm its presence and actual connection before relying on live participation. Provider admission, sign-in, device permissions, and meeting controls can prevent entry.
Run a structured interview
Give the rubric and approved questions before starting. State who leads and when the agent can ask follow-ups. Ask it to capture specific evidence rather than infer a hiring decision from personality or impression. A human should review the evidence and own the decision.
For multilingual work, give the languages, translation timing, and terminology. Confirm high-impact names, dates, and numbers against the source.
Follow up
Ask for decisions, owners, deadlines, open questions, and a proposed follow-up. Review recipients and content before sending. Use the event's trail, related Chat, Action Center, and History to distinguish a draft from a sent message or changed event.
For missing calendar events, see Calendar troubleshooting. For live audio, see Voice.