Meeting Synthesize

Meeting synthesis is the archaeology skill for multi-meeting initiatives. It consumes a set of meeting recaps (and optionally raw notes) over a period, and surfaces patterns that no single meeting reveals: how decisions evolved, how stakeholder positions shifted, where threads are stalling, where contradictions have emerged.

Distinct from /discover-interview-synthesis: that skill works on user-research conversations with research-specific frameworks (jobs-to-be-done, buying insights). This skill works on internal org meetings with org-specific patterns (stakeholder alignment, decision evolution, project history).

This skill belongs to the Meeting Skills Family. It conforms to the Meeting Skills Family Contract.

When to Use

• Board prep or exec-brief preparation across a meeting sequence
• Onboarding a new team member into the history of an initiative
• Project retrospective input (the story of how we got here)
• Investigating why a multi-meeting initiative has stalled
• Quarterly review of a topic that has crossed many meetings
• Surfacing contradictions that no single-meeting reviewer caught

When NOT to Use