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Every 15 minutes

Turn meeting transcripts into action items and follow-ups

When a meeting transcript lands in Drive, the action items are pulled out for you and any follow-up meetings are put in your calendar.

Runs
Every 15 minutes
Apps
Google Calendar, Google Drive
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
drive.readonly; calendar.events

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: when a new meeting transcript appears in my Drive 'Meet Recordings' folder, extract the action items with AI, email them to me and create calendar events for any follow-up meetings.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A team lead finishes a client call where everyone agreed to "catch up again next Thursday" and three people took on tasks. The transcript is saved automatically, but nobody reads it, the follow-up is never booked, and a week later the client asks what happened.

Pulling the action items out of each transcript and booking the follow-ups that were agreed makes sure what was said in a meeting actually happens. Managers, consultants and client-facing teams use it to keep promises made on calls.

What you get out of it

  • Agreed follow-ups get booked

    When a meeting ends with a plan to talk again, the event appears in the calendar instead of relying on someone's memory.

  • A clear list of who does what

    Action items with owners are sent to you right after the meeting, ready to share with the team.

  • Transcripts become useful

    Recordings and transcripts pile up unread. Pulling out the decisions turns them into something people act on.

  • Clients see you follow through

    Following up on time with the right next steps builds trust with clients and partners.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every 15 minutes ClickRuntime checks your Drive Meet Recordings folder for new transcripts.

  2. It skips any transcript it has already processed.

  3. AI reads the transcript and lists the action items, with owners, and any follow-up meetings that were agreed.

  4. You get the action items by email, and each follow-up meeting is added to your calendar.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Google Calendar
  • Connect Google Drive

What you get

RunsEvery 15 minutes
Turn meeting transcripts into action items and follow-upstoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Action itemsAction items from Acme quarterly review: Priya to send revised pricing by Friday; follow-up call booked for Thu 7 Nov, 10:00.

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
  • Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Google Calendar and Google Drive steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
meeting_transcripts_to_action_items_and_follow_ups.pyexample
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, state, notify, ai, report_fetched

FOLDER_ID = "your-meet-recordings-folder-id"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "properties": {"actions": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
          "followups": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object", "properties": {"title": {"type": "string"}, "start": {"type": "string"}, "end": {"type": "string"}}}}}}

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    creds = Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work"))
    drive, cal = build("drive", "v3", credentials=creds, cache_discovery=False), build("calendar", "v3", credentials=creds, cache_discovery=False)
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    files = drive.files().list(q=f"'{FOLDER_ID}' in parents and mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.document' and trashed=false", fields="files(id,name)").execute()["files"]
    new = [f for f in files if f["id"] not in seen]
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if not new:
        return {"summary": "Nothing new"}
    for f in new:
        text = drive.files().export(fileId=f["id"], mimeType="text/plain").execute().decode()[:25000]
        r = ai.generate(f"From this transcript list action items with owners and follow-up meetings with ISO start/end times:\n{text}", json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=800).json
        notify.email_me(f"Action items: {f['name']}", "\n".join(f"- {a}" for a in r.get("actions", [])) or "No action items found.")
        for fu in r.get("followups", []):
            cal.events().insert(calendarId="primary", body={"summary": fu["title"], "start": {"dateTime": fu["start"]}, "end": {"dateTime": fu["end"]}}).execute()
        seen.add(f["id"])
    state.set("seen", list(seen)[-500:])
    return {"processed": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which transcripts does it read?
Transcripts saved to the Drive folder you choose, such as the folder your video calls save to. Only files added after you set it up are processed.
Who is invited to the follow-up meetings?
The follow-up is created in your calendar with the date mentioned in the meeting. You can add guests before it goes out, or have the original attendees invited automatically.
What if no follow-up was agreed?
Then only the action items are sent. A calendar event is created only when a follow-up meeting with a time or date was mentioned.
What permissions does it need?
drive.readonly; calendar.events. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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