The meeting is the only shared room

Co-located teams have hallways, whiteboards, and overheard conversations. Distributed teams have the video call — and often that's it. That makes the meeting uniquely load-bearing: whatever happens in it either becomes part of the shared record or it's lost for everyone who wasn't on the call. And on a remote team, someone is always not on the call, because the whole point of async is that people don't have to be.

So the failure is structural. A decision made in a live call at a time that suited three time zones is invisible to the fourth. The person who attended becomes the single source of truth, and the team bottlenecks on their memory and availability. Manual summaries are supposed to bridge this, but they're inconsistent and get skipped under load. That gap is the meeting tax, and it's heaviest exactly where teams are most distributed.

A shared record instead of a shared memory

Pavleur's core value for remote teams is no meeting information loss. The whole call is captured, so the decision doesn't live only in the head of whoever was awake for it. Everyone — including the teammate who was asleep in another time zone — gets the same complete record, searchable, instead of a game of telephone.

The automatic post-meeting report is what makes async actually work. After every call, Pavleur writes the recap — decisions, action items, owners — so catching up is reading a reliable summary, not pinging the one person who was there. The manual write-up that used to get skipped now happens every time, consistently.

Screen shares don't have to be for the room only

Remote work happens on screens. Someone shares a Figma file, a metrics dashboard, a doc, a prototype — and for the people on the call it's clear, but for everyone who missed it, it never existed. Audio-only tools make this worse: they capture "as you can see on my screen" and none of the screen.

Pavleur captures video and on-screen screenshots with context, so the design that was reviewed and the dashboard that drove a decision are in the record for the whole team, not just the attendees. For a distributed team, that turns a live screen share into a durable, shareable artifact. It's the clear edge over audio-only tools like Otter and Fireflies — see the comparison.

Where it holds the team together

Standups. Run an async-friendly daily standup and let Pavleur produce the recap so the whole team stays in sync regardless of who joined live.
Team syncs. Use a weekly team sync agenda; the decisions and owners land in a recap everyone can read on their own schedule.
Design and planning reviews. The shared screens and the decisions about them are captured together, so absent teammates see the artifact and the reasoning.

It gets better as the team settles into a rhythm

Pavleur's auto-improvement tunes recaps to your team's cadence — the recurring standups, the planning rhythm, the decisions that need to reach everyone. The painkiller is a shared record that closes the time-zone gap; the vitamin is a system that gets better at your specific meetings over time.

The bottom line for remote teams

When the meeting is the only room you share, you can't afford to lose what happened in it. Pavleur captures the call and the screen, then writes the recap that lets a distributed team actually work async. Compare it against audio-only tools on the comparison page.