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PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your meeting minutes for accuracy.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita colleague

What the alternative costsNo priced human alternative is provided in the available tool data.

If this goes wrong: the minutes record the wrong decision or action owner and the error causes disagreement after circulation.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the final draft minutes and the meeting transcript, recording transcript or contemporaneous notes in separate documents.
    2. Remove material you are not authorised to share, then paste the minutes into the first labelled section of the prompt and the source material into the second.
    3. Run the prompt and save the table of confirmed, contradicted, ambiguous and uncheckable items beside the original minutes.
    4. Compare every flagged discrepancy with the exact wording and timestamp or document location in the source, correcting only points supported by that source.
    5. Send ambiguous decisions, action owners and deadlines to the meeting chair or relevant attendees for confirmation rather than asking the model to choose.
    6. Update the minutes, then have the chair or a responsible colleague compare the final version against the source before circulating it.

    Prompt

    Check these meeting minutes against the source transcript or notes. Do not rewrite them yet and do not infer anything that is not supported by the source. Produce a table with these columns: location in the minutes, statement in the minutes, supporting source wording, status, and suggested correction. Mark each item as confirmed, contradicted, missing from the source, ambiguous, or not checkable. Check names, roles, dates, decisions, action owners, deadlines, numbers, commitments and whether a discussion was recorded as an agreed decision. Quote or cite the relevant source wording for every flagged item. Separate factual discrepancies from matters that require the meeting chair or attendees to decide. Treat the source as authoritative only for what it actually records. At the end, list any important points in the source that the minutes omit. Do not invent facts. Minutes: [PASTE THE MINUTES HERE]. Source transcript or notes: [PASTE THE TRANSCRIPT OR NOTES HERE].

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know whether an informal comment became an agreed decision when the meeting did not state that clearly.
  • AI cannot resolve conflicting accounts between attendees without someone responsible deciding which account is accepted.
  • AI cannot recover missing audio, off-record context or decisions made after the recording ended.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for the minutes, so you still need the chair or responsible colleague to approve them before circulation.

What caps this at PARTLY: verification cost, context depth and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI check meeting minutes against a transcript?
Yes, it can compare the minutes with a transcript and flag differences in decisions, names, action owners, deadlines and figures. It cannot reliably decide whether an ambiguous discussion was an agreed decision, so the chair or attendees must settle those points.
Can AI tell me if my meeting minutes are accurate?
Only if you give it a reliable source such as a transcript, recording transcript or contemporaneous notes. It can find unsupported or contradictory wording, but accuracy still needs a person who understands what the meeting agreed.
Should I use AI to check confidential meeting minutes?
Only use a service your organisation permits and share only material you are authorised to process. Remove unnecessary personal or commercially sensitive information, and check the provider's current handling terms before uploading the minutes.
Who should approve corrected meeting minutes?
The meeting chair or the person responsible for the official record should approve them before circulation. Use AI to prepare the discrepancy list, not to replace that approval.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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