Ask Fellow: The AI Chief of Staff & Strategic Partner Your Meetings Have Been Missing

New in Fellow: Ask Fellow is your on-demand AI Chief of Staff, built to surface insights and generate deliverables from meetings, even the ones you skip.

At most companies, the Chief of Staff is a force multiplier. They’re the right hand to the CEO or department lead, surfacing insights, keeping priorities on track, and making sure nothing critical falls through the cracks.

But hiring a great Chief of Staff is expensive. Training one takes months. And scaling that function across teams… nearly impossible.

That’s why we built Ask Fellow, the on-demand AI Chief of Staff that combines deep meeting memory, smart execution, and transparent reasoning to act as your strategic partner before, during, and after every meeting.

It’s not just a meeting notetaker. It’s an operating second brain that can filter noise and surface insights, giving you strategic visibility across all the meetings and recording channels that you’re invited to.

Let’s take a look at 7 ways Ask Fellow acts as a strategic partner – improving team communication and visibility, without compromising your organization’s data security.

7 ways Ask Fellow works like a Chief of Staff for your meetings

1. You missed the meeting, but still need the insight

Meeting summaries are helpful, but sometimes you need more detail and context than just the high-level recap. Maybe you noticed a decision point that wasn’t fully clear, or maybe you weren’t even in the meeting and want to understand the discussion behind a particular topic.

Instead of asking someone to “catch you up,” just use X-Ray. You can instantly drill into key topics and see the exact quotes behind each decision—without watching the recording or pinging your team.

Real-world scenario: A VP joins a late-stage project and needs full context on a past exec sync, without slowing the team down.

2. You vaguely remember a decision… but not the details

Ask a nuanced question about a specific meeting and get rich detail, just like if you were asking a human who attended the meeting. For example:

• Want to know when someone mentioned a deadline? or,
• Which metrics were referenced in a presentation? 

Ask Fellow will surface the answer directly from the transcript, instantly.

To take it one step further, you can ask Fellow to generate a 1-pager about these uncovered details from your meeting. This feature is perfect for fast follow-up, clarification, or confirming details. Most importantly, it saves you from the dreaded rewatch.

Real-world scenario: A Product Manager preparing a roadmap update needs to confirm what was promised to marketing in a sync last week: no rewatching required.

3. You need to follow up, but you’re on to the next meeting

Crafting thoughtful, personalized follow-up emails after a meeting is essential (especially in sales, customer success, and cross-functional roles.) But writing them from scratch takes time and mental energy.

Ask Fellow writes the first draft of your follow-up email based on what was said: action items, key decisions, tone and all. You just tweak and hit send.

Real-world scenario: An Account Executive wraps a discovery call and auto-generates a recap email with aligned next steps, before the next tab even loads.

4. You’re back from vacation and need to get up to speed, fast

Ask Fellow can give you insights from a series of multiple meetings, or recurring themes across all of the meetings you have access to. 

For instance, what if you go on vacation for three weeks and need to know what happened while you were away? 

Ask Fellow not only lets you ask a question and get an answer from any meeting you have access to, it can also generate reports and reviews in seconds. 

Use Search + Generate Across All Meetings to ask:

• “What major decisions were made while I was away?” or,
• “What did we commit to for Q3?”

Real-world scenario: An engineering manager returning from PTO gets a 1-pager of key updates across 15 standups and team syncs—instantly.

5. You’re preparing for performance reviews or a board meeting

When you’re getting ready for high-stakes moments like performance reviews, quarterly business reviews, or a board meeting, every insight matters. 

But collecting the right input across dozens of meetings, 1:1s, and team check-ins is time-consuming at best, and easy to get wrong.

Ask Fellow changes that. You can generate a tailored summary, performance doc, or leadership update based on actual conversations, recurring themes, and key decisions across your meeting history.

It’s the difference between writing reviews from memory and building them from evidence.

Real-world scenarios: 

• A founder turns 6 months of 1:1s into a manager review summary that highlights growth, concerns, and milestones, ready to paste into the HR system, no guesswork required. 
• Another uses it to prep for a board meeting by asking, “What major risks were flagged in leadership syncs last quarter?” and gets a ready-to-send update in minutes.

6. You want answers from a specific context, not the noise

Sometimes you don’t want to search everything, you want to search within a specific stream of work. Maybe you’re reviewing customer feedback, preparing for a product launch, or analyzing a recurring team issue.

Use Filter by Context to ask focused questions from one recordings channel – like customer calls, product reviews, or 1:1s. This contextual view keeps your results relevant and focused. 

Real-world scenario: A CS lead pulls common renewal objections from just the last 30 customer check-ins, without digging through unrelated meetings.

7. You need to share an insight, and back it up

When AI gives you an answer, you need to see how it arrives at that insight. 

With this transparency, you can validate insights, share them with confidence, and trust in the data you’re acting on. 

With Reasoning, you get the source meeting, quote, timestamp, and speaker.

Real-world scenario: A team lead shares an insight in Slack, complete with a verified quote and link to the exact moment it was said in the meeting.

See Ask Fellow, your AI Chief of Staff in action

If you’re looking for leverage – not just transcripts – you need something built for strategic visibility, fast execution, and org-wide trust.

Unlike other tools, Fellow was built for internal meetings from day one. That means it understands the nuance, the pace, and the privacy requirements of sensitive team conversations.

Ask Fellow is the meeting layer your team’s been missing: one that works like a Chief of Staff, scales across every function, and keeps your data secure by design.

Want to see it in action? Watch the on-demand demo and see how Ask Fellow turns meetings into momentum.