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Client meetings

Capturing what happened in a meeting, and turning it into something you can actually use.

Pillar · Client meetings

Why Taking Notes Costs You the Conversation

Research on divided attention and note-taking shows a real trade-off between writing things down and actually following what's being said. Here's what the evidence shows and what to do about it.

10 Aug 2026Pillar
Client meetings

What a Record-First Meeting Workflow Actually Looks Like

Recording and processing a client meeting after the fact works differently than taking notes live. Here's what the research on meeting records and AI-assisted note-taking says about doing it well.

10 Aug 2026
Client meetings

What to Actually Do With Your Meeting Notes Afterward

Notes that don't turn into decisions, action items, or future context are just a file that exists. Here's what the research on knowledge management says separates useful notes from a digital pile.

10 Aug 2026

How the AI works

What AI memory is, where it breaks down, and why a bigger context window is not the answer.

Sales performance

What the peer-reviewed research says about rapport, adaptive selling and rehearsing a pitch.

Sales performance

What the Research Says About Rehearsing With Feedback

Randomized studies on video-based rehearsal and feedback show measurable gains in real communication performance — the ingredients any structured practice loop has to reproduce.

10 Aug 2026

Memory and privacy

What it means to keep a durable record of someone — deletion, mistakes, consent, and who receives the data.

Memory and privacy

If I Delete Something, Is It Actually Gone?

Deleting a fact from a knowledge graph or AI memory system is harder than deleting a file. Here's the real research on why, and exactly what deletion covers in Closer.

10 Aug 2026