Meeting Prep Brief

Last updated: September 4, 2026

Walk into a meeting already knowing what it's about, who's in the room, and what's still open. A meeting brief is the short prep Highlight puts together before a meeting starts, so you spend the first few minutes contributing instead of catching up.

What a brief gives you

A brief is a quick read, not a report. Depending on the meeting, it surfaces:

  • What the meeting is about and what matters most right now.

  • Who's attending, with a line of context on any outside guests.

  • What's changed since you last met, and what's still open between you.

  • Action items, decisions, and deadlines tied to the people or project in the room.

  • The few documents worth opening first: the relevant Notion doc, Linear issue, deck, or email thread.

When there isn't much recent context, the brief stays short and says so. A two-line brief you can trust beats a full page of filler.

Briefs fit the meeting

Highlight reads the meeting first, then prepares what's useful for that kind of meeting:

  • 1:1s show what's been active between the two of you lately, and what's still open.

  • Recurring syncs focus on what moved since the last one.

  • Standups give you a personal rundown: what you shipped, what slipped, what's next, and anything blocking you.

  • External meetings add brief context on the customer, candidate, or vendor, drawn from past threads and, when it helps, the web.

Where to find your brief

Connect your calendar and your upcoming meetings show up in the Meetings section of the Highlight panel. Open a meeting and the brief is there, ready before the meeting starts. You don't have to ask for it.

Getting sharper briefs

A brief is only as good as the context Highlight can see. The more of your tools you connect, the more grounded it gets:

  • Calendar anchors the brief to the right meeting and the day around it.

  • Slack, Gmail, Linear, and Notion surface recent activity, open items, and the docs that matter.

  • Past meeting notes let Highlight pick up where you left off on recurring meetings and 1:1s.

Everything in a brief is drawn from what's recent and tied to that specific meeting, so it reflects where things actually stand rather than everything Highlight knows.