The best AI meeting software is not the one with the longest feature list. It is the one that removes work from your actual calendar workflow without creating new cleanup.
Start with a reproducible test
Start with one repeatable task: scheduling, rescheduling, follow-up, or meeting notes. Define a usable result, then record setup time, exceptions, corrections, and handoffs.
Measure the hidden work
Track exceptions, corrections, review time, and whether the output completes the intended job. A feature only matters when it improves the workflow under real constraints.
Verify before scaling
Verify current pricing, limits, integrations, support, and data terms on official vendor pages before committing.
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Defining a usable result first, and then counting the corrections and handoffs it still takes, is the right spine. The thing I would add from running a fair number of these is that the model is almost never what breaks reproducibility. In our own runs, every exciting result that later turned out to be wrong was a data or plumbing artifact rather than a model difference. A scorer that was quietly lenient. A document set truncated before it reached the model. One case where a benchmark returned a flat zero and the cause was a missing User Agent header, so a transport error had been recorded as a capability verdict.
Two things that caught more than anything else we tried. First, run a negative control, not just a positive one. Feeding the gold answers through and seeing a high score is passed perfectly by a scorer that returns valid unconditionally. Feed it silence and deliberately sabotaged inputs and require zero. Second, make the harness refuse to print a score at all when a control fails, rather than warn. A number from an unvalidated instrument is worse than no number, because it gets quoted later by someone who was not there.
For multi-modal specifically that matters more, not less, since each added modality is another place a silent transport or decode failure can look like a low score.