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Fireflies.ai Launches Domain-Specific Mini Apps to Automate Meeting Insights

Khosla Ventures-backed Fireflies.ai, an AI-powered note-taking platform, unveiled a suite of domain-specific “mini apps” on Wednesday, designed to automatically extract actionable insights from meeting transcripts. With the rise of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and generative AI, meeting intelligence startups—such as Otter, Read AI, Circleback, Krisp, and Granola—have seen rapid growth. Fireflies.ai is no exception, with co-founder and CEO Krish Ramineni reporting an 8x increase in users and achieving profitability. To accelerate its expansion, the startup is rolling out over 200 mini apps tailored to various roles and use cases, including: While competitors like Circleback require manual prompting to generate insights from transcripts, Fireflies.ai’s mini apps eliminate the need for user input, streamlining the process. “The time it takes to derive insights post-meeting is significant,” Ramineni told TechCrunch. “These apps close that gap by automating actions immediately after meetings, boosting productivity.” Users can also integrate outputs with platforms like Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, Jira, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. For instance, a meeting summary can be automatically shared with a manager via Slack once the discussion concludes. Fireflies.ai allows users to deploy mini apps per meeting and even build custom apps for specialized needs. The company plans to introduce team-sharing capabilities in the future. Beyond mini apps, Fireflies.ai is enhancing meeting intelligence with pre-meeting briefs on participants and organizations. The startup is also testing “digital twins”—AI avatars that can attend meetings and respond to basic queries, similar to experiments by Zoom and others. This expansion underscores Fireflies.ai’s push to automate workflows and maximize efficiency in professional collaboration. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Service Cloud with AI-Driven Intelligence Salesforce Enhances Service Cloud with AI-Driven Intelligence Engine Data science and analytics are rapidly becoming standard features in enterprise applications, Read more

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AI for Product Builders

AI for Product Builders

Practical AI for Product Builders: Beyond the Hype Cutting Through the White AI Noise AI dominates tech conversations—yet much of the discussion feels abstract. What’s often missing is a practical guide for integrating AI into real products. How can AI: ✔ Enhance user experiences?✔ Enable new capabilities?✔ Improve existing features (faster/cheaper/better)?✔ And—just as importantly—when shouldn’t you use it? As product and UX professionals, we solve user problems with the best tools available. AI expands that toolkit in surprising ways. This guide breaks down key techniques so you can confidently say: AI Basics: What We’re Really Talking About Large Language Models (LLMs) = Word Prediction Engines When people say “AI” today, they usually mean LLMs—the technology behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others. How they work: Comparison: An huge team of forgetful interns. Each time you chat, you’re talking to a new intern who reads the previous conversation before responding. Key limitations: Moving Beyond Chatbots Chatbots were the first wave of AI products, but conversational interfaces aren’t always the best solution. Example: AI Image Editing Problem: You generate an image of a cat in a café but want to tweak one poster. ✅ GUI + AI (e.g., Photoshop Generative Fill) ❌ Chat-only (e.g., ChatGPT + DALL-E) Lesson: Direct manipulation (GUI) + AI > Chat-only interfaces for many use cases. The AI Toolbox: Key Techniques 1. LLM Prompting What: Basic text-in, text-out AI (like ChatGPT). Best for: Limitations: 2. Image Generation What: Models like DALL-E, Imagen, Midjourney create images from text. Best for: Key Insight: 3. Structured Output & Tool Use Problem: Raw LLM output is messy for apps. Solution: Force responses into predefined formats (e.g., JSON). Example: Tool Use: Lets LLMs “choose” next actions (e.g., search orders vs. ask clarifying questions). 4. Embeddings What: Convert text into numerical vectors (“meaning coordinates”). Why it matters: Use cases: 5. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) What: Combine LLMs with your own data. How it works: Benefits: When Not to Use AI Red Flags in AI Product Design 🚩 “We need an AI strategy” → Focus on user needs, not tech for tech’s sake.🚩 Sparkly “AI” buttons → AI should feel seamless, not tacked-on. Remember: Many “smart” features (e.g., Apple’s “Magic” tools) don’t require AI. The Path Forward AI enables new possibilities, but great products still solve real problems. Use these tools to: AI isn’t magic. But used thoughtfully, it can help build products that are. Next steps: Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Service Cloud with AI-Driven Intelligence Salesforce Enhances Service Cloud with AI-Driven Intelligence Engine Data science and analytics are rapidly becoming standard features in enterprise applications, Read more

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Thoughts on Workday With Illuminate

Workday Illuminate

Announcing Workday Illuminate™: The Next Generation of Workday AI Illuminate Harnesses the Power of the World’s Largest HR and Finance Dataset to Drive Enterprise Transformation With AI Experience the Future of Work at Workday Rising 2024 LAS VEGAS, Sept. 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leading provider of solutions to help organizations manage their people and money, today announced Illuminate, the next generation of Workday AI. Built on the world’s largest and cleanest HR and finance dataset, Illuminate accelerates manual tasks, assists every employee, and ultimately transforms entire business processes.  AI That Taps Into the Combined Power of HR and Finance Data and ContextIlluminate models are fueled by the more than 800 billion business transactions processed by the Workday platform annually. But the data alone doesn’t tell the full story. Illuminate understands not only the data but also the context—the “why” or “how” behind every HR and financial process, such as how processes are connected, the people and roles involved, and the current task at hand – along with previous conversational AI interactions. With this powerful combination of data and context, Illuminate enables precise decision-making, anticipates employee needs, and delivers personalized experiences like never before. “The business world is in the midst of a tectonic shift, excited about the immense potential of AI while also struggling to implement it in a way that drives meaningful results,” said Carl Eschenbach, CEO, Workday. “By placing tangible business value, responsible innovation, and user-centric design at the forefront, Workday Illuminate empowers businesses to harness AI’s full potential to drive unprecedented productivity and move forever forward.” Illuminate: Transforming the Way People WorkIlluminate works across the Workday platform, delivering powerful insights for precise decision making and streamlined actions. Illuminate will help organizations drive exponential productivity gains and significant cost savings in the following ways: Illuminate elevates people by enabling them to focus on the work that matters and do the things that are uniquely human – from spending more time with customers, constituents, or patients to pursuing more creative and meaningful work to building critical peer, team, and stakeholder relationships. Workday Ecosystem Extends the Power of IlluminateIlluminate also lets customers use AI innovations from Workday’s partners, or developed through Workday AI Gateway, and orchestrates processes across all of them on the same platform. This allows customers to leverage their existing AI investments and extend the power of Illuminate, driving even greater value and innovation across their organizations. “The rapid adoption of AI across enterprises has created a complex web of models, data pipelines, and infrastructure,” said Bob Evans of Cloud Wars. “For businesses that want to effectively manage, scale, and govern their AI initiatives – ensuring they deliver real value while also mitigating risk – it’s absolutely essential to get all of those AI components working together to complete more complex cross-functional tasks. Workday Illuminate will provide that cross-platform AI orchestration that businesses will need to be successful in this age of AI.” AvailabilityWorkday Illuminate is available to customers now, and will continue to evolve as part of Workday’s robust three year AI roadmap. About WorkdayWorkday is a leading enterprise platform that helps organizations manage their most important assets – their people and money. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com. © 2024 Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Service Cloud with AI-Driven Intelligence Salesforce Enhances Service Cloud with AI-Driven Intelligence Engine Data science and analytics are rapidly becoming standard features in enterprise applications, Read more

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