The room has momentum.
PRODUCT“Everyone wants this.”
ENGINEERING“We can build it next sprint.”
THE ROOM“Sounds like a plan.”
Question intelligence for Zoom
The questionthe roomis missing.
Socrates follows your live discussion and surfaces a question worth asking. You decide when to ask it.
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For the moment before a decision.Follow the conversation
From agreement to the question worth asking
An assumption becomes visible.
Everyonewantsthis.
According
to whom?
to whom?
The room has agreed on a direction.
Customer demand hasn’t been established.
Socrates surfaces a question to consider.
Has a customeractually askedfor this?
You consider it. You choose whether to ask.
A small question.
A different conversation.
Pick the moment. Find the question.
Then turn it over to see what it opens up.
01 / Opportunity cost
The roadmap is full. The tradeoff isn’t clear.
If this takes six months,
what aren’t we building instead?
The opening
A plan commits more than time. This question makes the alternative visible before a decision becomes a promise.
02 / Assumption testing
The plan looks solid. One premise carries the weight.
Which assumption would hurt most if it turned out to be false?
The opening
An assumption can feel like a fact when nobody names it. This question directs attention to the premise with the largest consequences.
03 / Decision readiness
Everyone agrees. What would change that?
What evidence would actually change our mind here?
The opening
Agreement does not settle the evidence. This question makes the conditions for reconsidering a decision explicit.
Many possible questions.
One worth considering.
Socrates follows the reasoning across your discussion, evaluates possible questions, and selects a primary question for the moment.
ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTION01 / Follow the thread
“Everyone wants this.”
“We can build it next sprint.”
“Sounds like a plan.”
Start with the discussion
The room has a plan. The evidence behind customer demand is still missing.
You can explore each candidate.
Socrates selects; you decide whether to ask.
Read the four steps
Follow the thread.
After the host starts listening, Socrates examines the live English transcript supplied by Zoom, following claims, goals, and decisions as the discussion evolves.
Find the opening.
An untested assumption. A missing perspective. A term everyone uses differently. Socrates looks for places where a question could add value.
Choose with care.
Candidate questions are evaluated for relevance, timing, novelty, and the uncertainty they could resolve. Advice, repetition, and loaded formulations are filtered out.
Leave the decision to you.
The selected question appears in your private Zoom panel. You can ask it, adapt it, or let it pass. If no candidate meets the criteria, Socrates can remain silent.
For the curious: how a question is selected
Erotetic evaluation means reasoning about which question is worth asking. Socrates applies it through a repeating cycle:
FOLLOW A QUESTION INTO FOCUS
Choose a stage. See what it contributes.
01 / Receive discussion text
New transcript fragments supplied by Zoom enter a bounded window of the discussion.
Illustrative sequence. Three stages consult the model provider; the others apply application logic. Animation speed does not represent processing time.
Later turns help identify questions that have been answered. Repeated or stale questions can be suppressed. The sequence above explains the mechanism, not a response-time guarantee.
04 / The choice stays human
The floor
is still yours.
Socrates doesn’t speak in your meeting. It doesn’t give advice or decide for you.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOMENT
No question worth adding?
Silence is a valid outcome.
Only questions. Always your judgment.
05 / Clear by design
Good questions.
Straight answers.
Your control and your meeting content deserve a clear explanation.
The host starts and stops listening after disclosure to participants. You choose whether to ask a suggested question.
Who controls the listening?
The host starts and stops Socrates after disclosing the processing to participants. Questions appear in the private Zoom panel. A person chooses whether and how to ask them.
Is the meeting recorded or saved?
Socrates uses Zoom’s live transcript; it does not create an audio or video recording. By design, Socrates keeps a limited working context in temporary memory during the session and does not intentionally save raw transcripts or a meeting archive. Its application state is cleared on stop, session expiry, or shutdown. This does not delete content held separately by Zoom or a model provider.
Does a model provider receive meeting content?
Yes. After disclosure or consent, limited transcript-derived text and structured discussion notes are sent to the configured model provider for analysis and question selection. Provider retention and use are governed by the service, account settings, and applicable terms. Limited retention may still apply; temporary storage within Socrates is not a promise of zero retention by the provider.
What about Zoom’s own recording and retention?
Zoom processes meeting content under its own policies and your organization’s settings. Hosts, account owners, or participants may separately record or retain content. Stopping Socrates clears its working session; it does not remove copies held elsewhere.
Will it suggest a question after every comment?
No. Socrates can remain silent when no candidate meets its criteria. Processing takes time, and results that become stale are suppressed. It follows English discussions; there is no instant-response promise.
How is my signup email used?
Your email is stored separately from meeting content so we can send the availability notification you requested. It is not a newsletter signup. Meeting-content deletion does not delete a signup email.
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Better decisions begin with
the question no one has asked.
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A prompt for your own reflection.
A question worth waiting for.
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