Wendi

What is Wendi?

Wendi is an AI workspace for people managers. It is designed to help managers handle leadership, HR, and workplace situations by remembering team context and decisions so they can document and follow up more consistently.

The core purpose is to support managers with calm, fair, and safer next steps—especially after sensitive conversations—by generating meeting summaries, organizing notes by person, and providing guidance grounded in UK HR best practice.

Key Features

• Quiet meeting note capture from your computer’s audio: Wendi captures notes automatically without joining meetings as a bot.
• Auto-generated meeting summaries and leadership analysis: produces meeting summaries, key moments, and leadership insights, plus suggested follow-ups based on what was discussed.
• Organized timelines per team member: meetings are filed into each team member’s timeline for easier review over time.
• Context-aware chat about meetings and people: you can ask Wendi about meetings, team members, or how your team is doing using your team’s real context.
• HR-safe plans and next steps with UK grounding: supports drafting and structuring items such as 1:1 agendas, PIPs, and grievance or disciplinary plans, referenced to UK best practice.
• Policy checking against HR policy and ACAS guidance (UK): every query is automatically checked against your company’s HR Policy, and if you’re in the UK, against the relevant ACAS code of practice.
• Privacy and security controls: private-by-design approach—Wendi does not invite participants or store audio recordings; it transcribes in real time and stores notes and transcripts, with encryption in transit and at rest and services run inside a VPC.

How to Use Wendi

Start by downloading the correct version for your device (Wendi provides an automatic download flow for your platform). Once set up, Wendi runs in the background to capture meeting audio from your computer and generate notes.

Use Wendi during your normal manager workflow: review the auto-generated summaries and key moments after 1:1s and team conversations, then use the timeline organized per person to revisit context later. For follow-ups, ask Wendi in chat to draft tailored next steps or clarify what to say based on prior conversations. If you need HR-relevant documentation (for example, agendas, PIPs, or plans for grievances/disciplines), use Wendi to structure “safe” next steps grounded in the company policy and, for UK users, ACAS guidance.

Use Cases

• After a difficult conversation: When a 1:1 or feedback session doesn’t go smoothly, Wendi helps you interpret what happened and choose a next step, while supporting proper documentation.
• Performance that is starting to slip: When performance issues emerge, Wendi supports early, structured follow-ups and suggested wording for sensitive messages, with documentation carried forward over time.
• Managing conflict between team members: If tensions rise, you can capture what was said and look for patterns across conversations to help avoid reactive or risky responses.
• Absences, wellbeing, and sensitive topics: For conversations touching absence, health, or personal issues, Wendi helps you keep accurate notes and identify areas to be cautious about while preparing appropriate follow-up.
• Managing up (not just direct reports): Wendi can help you keep track of conversations with your own manager and prepare updates and follow-ups, maintaining a record over time.

FAQ

Does Wendi join my meetings as a bot?

No. The product captures meeting details from your computer’s audio and does not invite a bot or participant into calls.

What does Wendi store—does it keep audio recordings?

Wendi is described as not storing audio recordings. It uses audio only to generate transcripts in real time, and audio files never leave your device as Wendi transcribes.

How does Wendi handle HR and compliance guidance?

Wendi automatically checks each query against your company’s HR Policy. For users in the UK, it is also checked against the relevant ACAS code of practice.

What kinds of outputs can I ask for?

Based on the website, Wendi can provide meeting summaries, key moments, leadership insights, suggested follow-ups, and help structure HR-related plans such as 1:1 agendas, PIPs, and grievance/disciplinary plans.

Is Wendi limited to direct reports?

No. The site also describes managing-up scenarios, where you can track conversations with your own manager and prepare follow-ups and updates.

Alternatives

• General AI meeting note and transcript tools: These typically focus on summarizing meetings, but may not be tailored to manager-specific workflows like per-person timelines and HR-policy-grounded next steps.
• Team wiki or document management systems: These can store decisions and meeting notes, but they do not generate context-aware follow-up drafts or structured guidance from transcripts.
• HR case management and documentation tools: These are built for HR processes, but may not offer an always-on manager workspace for capturing and using meeting context across conversations.
• Productivity assistants for drafting and email templates: These can help write follow-ups, but they generally do not provide meeting-context retrieval and timeline organization per person.