A meeting bot for Microsoft Teams, with nothing to install

How it appears in Teams

Dot joins as a participant in the Teams roster, the way a colleague from another tenant would. The display name says it is the assistant. It posts in the meeting chat when it arrives, and its video tile carries a line that it is transcribing for the whole call.

Nobody in the meeting installs the Teams desktop app on Dot’s behalf, and nobody installs anything on their own machine. One person pastes the join link. That is the rollout.

What Teams already gives you, and what it does not

Microsoft 365 Copilot recaps a Teams meeting well. It keeps no record of a decision being reversed by a later one. If your question is “what did we say in Tuesday’s recap?”, Copilot is already on the bill. If your question is “are we still going with that vendor?”, you need a record that survives the next meeting.

Copilot’s documented ways to invoke it in a meeting are a click or a typed prompt, private to the person who asked. Dot answers out loud to the room when somebody says the wake phrase, and the same answer sits on its tile.

Teams is not the only meeting you have

A lot of companies run Teams internally and still end up on Zoom or Meet with a customer. A Teams-only assistant treats those as someone else’s problem. Dot is the same meeting bot on all three, with one decision record.

External attendees do not need a Dot seat or a Microsoft 365 licence to benefit. They just attend the Teams meeting. Seats are for the people who ask questions and read the minutes.

Questions

Next

• Dot and Microsoft 365 Copilot
• How the meeting bot joins
• Meeting minutes