AI meeting minutes writer for boards & committees
Convert notes and transcripts into minutes with AI-powered meeting minutes software.
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What if putting together meeting minutes took, well… minutes ?
With Minute Writer, you can speed up the entire minute-taking process — using AI that’s been designed by governance experts to put you in control and keep your data private at all times.
Transcribe meetings with confidence
From the first step, Minute Writer operates within our secure platform trusted by 3,000+ boards worldwide.
- Generate a transcript of your meetings, in real time — no third-party tool needed.
- Pause at will to exclude parts of the conversation from your transcript.
- Leave no audio recording and zero data saved in the AI.
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Wow I have just tried it. Outstanding! With the two sets of minutes I have done yesterday and today you have saved me 10 hours.”
St George’s Golf Club
Turn records into drafts in an instant
Start with the heavy lifting done, as Minute Writer creates a great first draft from your transcript or notes.
- Convert transcripts — including those from third-parties — or typed notes into draft minutes, with just a few clicks.
- Automatically split your minutes between items and group related points made at different times during the meeting.
- Pull out structure and attendees list from your meeting’s agenda.
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Minute Writer is giving me 40% of time spent on minutes back — time which I’m now using on more strategic and value-add work.”
Sarah Dobson, Head of Executive Support, Cambridge Building Society
“Generic AI tools work well for high-level summaries, but for minuting formal board and committee meetings, detail is key — and that’s what we get from the AI in Minute Writer.”
Sarah Dobson, Head of Executive Support, Cambridge Building Society
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Automate the tedium away, your way
Need things done a certain fashion? With Minute Writer, you decide what goes in and how it looks.
- Customise the writing style used and the level of detail to go into.
- Include recurrent, pro forma text on an item-by-item basis, and dynamically update details like time and location.
- Add summaries of supporting papers, generated directly from your portal.
- Instantly tailor minutes to each forum by choosing from a library of preset formats.
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Minute Writer has truly transformed the way I work and has taken away the hours of work involved in writing the first draft — everything is faster, and now I can’t imagine preparing minutes without it.”
Vicky Turner, Corporate Governance Manager, Education Development Trust
And stay in control throughout
Your board, your rules. In Minute Writer, you set how data is handled — and support is just one call away.
- Define custom retention policies to remove all traces of in-progress work once minutes are approved.
- Manage access and data storage directly — no need to send requests to IT.
- Get true 24/7/365 support from BI24, our specialist support team.
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BI24 are amazing! Without fail, every time we need something, they are the most responsive support team I deal with across all of our vendors globally.”
Stuart Geddes, CIO, Ocorian
With the only AI built for board effectiveness
No general purpose AI here, but one designed around the science of board effectiveness and our 20 years of boardroom insights.
And because it’s built and administered by us, your data remains your data and will never be shared, saved by the AI, or used for training.
What are your meeting minutes costing you?
They say meetings are where minutes are taken and hours are wasted, but just how much time and money are your meeting minutes costing you?
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What are meeting minutes and why are they important?
Meeting minutes are the official written record of a board meeting. They capture decisions, actions, and discussions, providing accountability and legal compliance while supporting future reference. Clear minutes also help directors track progress and ensure alignment.
Board Intelligence’s Minute Writer tool makes this process easier by drafting precise, compliant minutes automatically. -
Can AI take meeting minutes?
AI can assist with minute-taking, provided it’s used in the right way. A generic AI tool prompted with a transcript may produce incomplete or inaccurate records. In contrast, governance-focused solutions are built to capture and structure minutes reliably; transcribing meeting discussions into clear summaries with decisions and actions highlighted.
Board Intelligence’s AI-powered Minute Writer is designed specifically for boards and committees, combining automation with governance-ready outputs.
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How to take meeting minutes with AI?
With AI tools like Minute Writer, you don’t need to upload your entire board pack, the platform already has access to your packs and agendas. All you provide are recordings, transcripts, or notes, and the AI structures these into a draft set of minutes.
Minute Writer also supports governance teams with features like pro-forma text, auto-inclusion of paper summaries, and alignment with your existing workflows. This ensures every draft feels familiar, professional, and easy to finalise.
Future updates will go even further, with the tool itself capturing the meeting audio to generate accurate minutes directly.
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Can ChatGPT be used to take minutes of a board meeting?
General AI tools like ChatGPT or CoPilot can create basic text summaries, but they aren’t built with the rigour, security, or structure required for board governance. They usually just “summarise” content without understanding what boards really need.
Minute Writer is different. It has been designed specifically for boards and committees, with safeguards and workflows that go far beyond generic tools. For example, it:
- Structures outputs around frameworks developed by our consulting team and used by FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 boards.
- Uses multi-stage prompts that break the task into smaller, reliable steps; producing consistent, board-ready outputs.
- Has been tested and refined on hundreds of real board papers, with validation from governance professionals and board chairs.
- Runs on our own AI Service, which assigns the right model to each task while keeping client data fully private and secure.
This means the minutes you get are accurate, confidential, and tailored to the needs of governance teams, not just a generic summary.
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How do AI meeting minutes tools handle and secure confidential information?
AI tools must safeguard highly sensitive board papers and discussions. That’s why leading solutions use encryption in transit and at rest, strict access controls, and compliance-grade hosting. With Board Intelligence’s Minute Writer, security goes even further:
- No data is ever saved by the AI.
- Retention policies can be configured by the user, so your organisation controls how long data is stored.
- Your data is never used to train AI models.
This ensures confidential information remains fully protected while still giving governance teams the speed and efficiency benefits of AI.
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