The manager's meeting-information problem

Engineering managers have a structural disadvantage that no note-taking discipline fixes: you are in more meetings than anyone you manage. Standups, 1:1s, sprint planning, retros, incident reviews, skip-levels, hiring loops. Each one produces decisions and commitments you are supposed to carry forward. Nobody can hold that in their head, and the moment you start typing notes you stop being present in the conversation.

The usual coping strategies all trade one loss for another. Type notes and you miss the room. Skip notes and you miss the decisions. Ask an engineer to write it up and you've added a task to the person you were supposed to be unblocking. This is the meeting tax — the compounding cost of information that leaks out of every call.

What Pavleur actually does for your day

Pavleur captures the whole meeting so the record doesn't depend on your memory or your typing speed. That solves the first and most expensive problem: no meeting information loss. The decision your team reached in sprint planning, the concern an engineer raised in their 1:1, the root cause someone named in the postmortem — all of it is in the transcript, searchable later, whether or not you thought to write it down in the moment.

The second thing that saves your evenings is the automatic post-meeting report. After the call ends, Pavleur produces the recap: what was decided, who owns what, what to follow up on. You review and send it in a minute instead of reconstructing it from scratch at 8pm. No scribe, no volunteer, no "who took notes?"

Why the screen matters for engineering meetings

Most meeting tools are audio-only. That's a real gap for engineering managers, because so much of what matters in your meetings is on a screen, not spoken. When someone shares a Grafana dashboard during an incident review, a Jira board during planning, or an architecture diagram during a design discussion, the words alone don't capture the decision — the visual does.

Pavleur captures video and on-screen screenshots with context, so the dashboard that explained the outage or the board that framed the sprint is in the record alongside the discussion about it. This is the differentiator against tools like Otter or Fireflies that only hear the room. If your team communicates through what's on screen, an audio transcript is half a record.

Concrete places this shows up

Sprint planning. Use the sprint planning agenda to run the session, and let Pavleur capture the board someone screen-shares plus the scope decisions, so "what did we commit to?" has an answer next Tuesday.
1:1s. The growth conversation, the concern about burnout, the promise you made to look into a promotion path — captured, so the follow-up actually happens. Structure the conversation with a 1:1 template.
Incident reviews. The dashboard that showed the spike and the root cause someone named are both in the record, so the retro action items are grounded in what actually happened.

It gets better the more you use it

Pavleur's auto-improvement means the recaps and captures get sharper as it learns the shape of your meetings — your recurring standups, your planning cadence, the people whose action items tend to slip. It's the vitamin on top of the painkillers: not the reason you start, but the reason meetings feel less lossy a month in.

The bottom line for engineering managers

You were promoted to lead people, not to be a stenographer. Pavleur takes the note-taking off your plate, captures the screens and decisions your meetings actually run on, and hands you the recap. Compare it against the audio-only tools on the comparison page and see the difference for the meetings you actually run.