How do I get a brief before a meeting?
Updated October 19, 2026
Before a call, Breakcold prepares a brief about the people you are meeting: who they are, their company, and your past conversations with them. It uses a pre-meeting template and the data in your CRM.
Step by step
- Open Meetings, click Upcoming and open a meeting. Upcoming meetings open on the before-call view.
- Under Insights, read the brief. While it is being built, you see Building your before-call insight.
- To use another template, click the template name next to Insights and pick one. The brief is built again with it.
- On the right, in the Chat tab, ask the Before-call insight assistant a question about the people, company or context of the meeting.
Good to know
- With Auto-generate insights enabled in Settings → Meetings, the brief is prepared 15 to 45 minutes before the meeting when you have chosen a Default pre-meeting template. It is also built when you open a meeting that has none yet.
- The brief draws on the records of the external participants: their fields, conversations, notes and past meetings. Your teammates in the call are not the subject.
- The assistant works once a brief exists.
- After the call, turn on Before call at the top right of the meeting to see the brief again. It is not available while the call is in progress.
- No pre-meeting template configured? Click Set up a template and choose one under Default pre-meeting template.
- Manage / Create insight, at the bottom of the template list, opens the meeting settings to edit templates.
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