Ask in the call. Kitty draws it on its screen while you talk.

A meeting with Kitty

Here is what Kitty does in a meeting, in the order it happens. Start anything you ask it with “Kitty”, or type it in the meeting chat.

1. 1Before the call

   Step 1: Bring Kitty in

   Send Kitty to your call in one of three ways, and let it in as you would anyone else. You can give its screen your own look first: colours and fonts, light or dark, up to three logos, and a cat for its picture.

   

   • Paste the link

     Copy the meeting's link onto your meetings page and press Join now. Kitty asks to join straight away.

   • Add it to the invitation

     Add kitty@kittywake.uk to the meeting's invitation, or forward the invitation to it, and Kitty books itself for the start time.

   • Connect your Google Calendar

     Your calls for the coming week show on your Calendar page, with a button to send Kitty to any of them. Kittywake reads each call's title, times, video link and guest list for the next seven days. It never changes anything, and keeps nothing until you send Kitty to a meeting.

   Kittywake uses your calendar only to show you your calls and book Kitty. How it handles data from Google, and how to disconnect, is in the privacy notice.

2. 2As it joins

   Step 2: Everyone agrees first

   Kitty says who it is in the chat, with a link anyone can open to see its screen full size. Then it asks everyone out loud, on its screen and in the chat, whether it can take notes of them, and asks anyone who joins later too. People say yes or type /yes, or the host adds them on the meeting's page. Kitty keeps nothing someone says until they agree. Its screen shows anyone who isn't in the notes.

   • Kitty, don't note me.
   • Kitty, stop recording.

   Anyone can take themselves out of the notes at any time, and “Kitty, stop recording” pauses them for everyone until someone says “Kitty, carry on”.

   

3. 3As it starts

   Step 3: The agenda

   Say the agenda, or put it in the invitation you send Kitty. Kitty pins it above everything it makes, ticks items off as you talk, and moves on when you say “Kitty, next item”. Give an item ten minutes and Kitty shows the time left and tells you when it's at time. The summary then goes through the meeting item by item.

   • Kitty, the agenda is the budget, the venue and the poster.
   • Kitty, next item.
   • Kitty, ten minutes for the budget.

   

4. 4As you talk

   Step 4: Notes as you go

   Kitty keeps the decisions, the actions and the questions still open while the meeting goes on. It never guesses who owns an action or when it's due. When you ask what someone said, the answer quotes their exact words, with when they said them.

   • Kitty, what are the actions so far?
   • Kitty, catch me up.
   • Kitty, make a note that the market opens on 13 December.
   • Kitty, what did Tom say about the lighting quotes?

   

5. 5As you talk

   Step 5: Ask for anything

   Say what you want and it appears on Kitty's screen a few seconds later, where everyone can see it. These are the kinds of thing Kitty can make, shown on its own screen in a made-up meeting about a winter market in Leeds.

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   • 

   Change it as you go

   Say what to change and Kitty changes it where it is, such as “add York to the map”, “make it a pie chart” or “put Sam under Priya”. Ask for it in another form and Kitty draws it again in a new tab, keeping the first. Everything it makes gets a number down the side of its screen, so you can ask for any of it again.

   • Kitty, show that as a timeline instead.
   • Kitty, show 1.
   • Kitty, go back.
   • Kitty, delete that.

   

   Not sure what to say?

   Kitty can put everything you can say on its screen for 30 seconds, or list who's in the call, with the host marked. There's a card of things to say that you can print. Testers can also try Kitty in a meeting on their own before bringing it to a real one.

   • Kitty, what can you draw?
   • Kitty, who's in the call?

   Print the card of things to say

   

6. 6As you talk

   Step 6: Your documents and slides

   Drop a PDF, Word or PowerPoint file onto the meeting's page, or paste a Google Slides link. Kitty can show any page, present it full screen, answer questions with the page the answer came from, pull out a table, or suggest other options.

   • Kitty, show slide 3.
   • Kitty, present it.
   • Kitty, what does the pack say about power for food pitches?

   

7. 7As you decide

   Step 7: Put it to a vote

   Put a choice to the room, and people say their answer or type /vote and its number in the chat. Kitty shows each choice with the names of those who picked it, and counts anyone not in the notes without naming them. When you close the vote, the result goes into the notes.

   • Kitty, let's vote: the lantern poster or the snow poster.
   • Kitty, close the vote.

   

8. 8As you talk

   Step 8: Offers, and Kitty's voice

   When people talk about figures, dates or ideas, Kitty can offer to chart them, put them on a timeline or mind map them. It also offers a catch-up to anyone who joins late. Each offer shows at the bottom of its screen for 20 seconds, and Kitty only makes it if someone says “Kitty, yes”. In auto mode it makes things itself, as much or as little as you set it to, and in manual mode it only does what it's asked. It can also say its answers out loud.

   • Kitty, yes.
   • Kitty, auto mode.
   • Kitty, speak your answers.

   

9. 9At the end

   Step 9: When the call ends

   Anyone can say “Kitty, leave”, and it goes. Kitty writes the summary as soon as the call ends, usually in under a minute. You tidy it, choose what everyone gets, and send it: one email each, with the pictures and a link to everything you shared. Drawings download as pictures, documents Kitty wrote as Word and PDF files, and the transcript as text. You can keep the summary, notes and drawings for up to 12 months.

   • Kitty, leave.