We're Building the Future of Collaboration
From organizational intelligence to meeting intelligence.
Big news from Internode this month: we've made a significant pivot. While we're still committed to serving complex industries - we're expanding our focus to solve a problem that affects nearly every company on the planet.
The reality check that changed everything
When you're building a startup, you learn quickly that your grand vision needs to meet reality. You can't accomplish everything at once - you need to start small, move fast, and deliver value immediately. So we stepped back from our ambitious goal of creating a comprehensive organizational intelligence platform and asked ourselves: What's the smallest, most valuable thing we can build right now?
We did what any smart team does - we talked to users. Dozens of them. Startup founders, enterprise leaders, engineers, project managers. We asked about their biggest collaboration challenges and daily frustrations to see where can we start our journey on changing the way people collaborate.
The answer was unanimous: meetings.
The $40 Billion problem nobody talks about
Here's what's happening right now across corporate America:
50 million meetings happen every single day in the US
The average professional spends 392 hours per year in meetings
Meetings consume about 15% of total work time
70% of these meetings are considered unproductive
According to Atlassian's research, this translates to a $40 billion annual loss in the US alone. We're literally burning money in conference rooms and Zoom calls.
Why meetings are broken (but essential)
During our interviews, we discovered a paradox: People hate meetings, but they can't stop having them. Why? Because meetings serve a critical purpose. They're how humans sync their brains, where ideas collide, decisions get made, and teams align. Face-to-face collaboration is irreplaceable for creative problem-solving.
But here's where things go wrong:
Knowledge evaporates. Just think about it: Do you remember your last meeting? What were the action items? Who was responsible for what? All those valuable discussions, brilliant ideas, and decisions vanish the moment everyone logs off.
No accountability. Tasks get mentioned but not tracked. Responsibilities are vaguely assigned but never followed up. The same issues resurface meeting after meeting because nobody remembers what was decided.
Too many people, too little value. We invite everyone "just in case." Half the room is checking email while pretending to listen.
The documentation nightmare. Large companies literally hire people whose sole job is to prep executives for meetings, take notes, and track action items. That's how broken this system is - we need human middleware just to make meetings functional.
The current meeting culture
Think about how much has changed in the last 20 years. We've revolutionized how we communicate (Slack), manage projects (Jira), and store information (Notion). But meetings? They're essentially the same as they were in 1950, just with video cameras.
We've accepted meeting inefficiencies as inevitable. We treat lost knowledge, forgotten tasks, and wasted time as the cost of doing business.
But what if they don't have to be?
Rethinking meetings from the ground up
This is where our pivot comes in. We're not just putting a band-aid on bad meetings - we're reimagining how meetings should work in the age of AI. Our first product fundamentally changes how your team collaborates:
Automatic capture and connection. Insights, decisions, and action items get captured automatically. We connect these insights across time and meetings, building a living knowledge base that grows smarter with every conversation.
Intelligent task tracking. No more "wait, who was supposed to do that?" Our system automatically identifies tasks, assigns them to the right people, and tracks progress without anyone lifting a finger.
Meeting intelligence. Should this meeting even happen? Could it be an email? Are the right people invited? Our platform helps you make these decisions before wasting everyone's time.
Real-time enhancement. Eventually, we'll be there during your meetings, surfacing relevant past decisions, suggesting agenda items based on project status, and ensuring every minute counts.
Why this matters now
We're at an inflection point. AI can now understand context, extract meaning, and connect dots in ways impossible just a few years ago. We finally have the technology to solve the meeting problem - not by having fewer meetings, but by making them actually work. This isn't about replacing human collaboration. It's about amplifying it. When humans come together to solve problems and make decisions, none of that valuable thinking should get lost.
The road ahead
Our ultimate vision remains building an organizational intelligence layer that transforms how companies make decisions and collaborate. But we're starting with meetings because that's where the pain is most acute and the value most immediate.
In the coming weeks, we'll release our beta. It won't be perfect - no MVP ever is. But it will be the first step toward a future where meetings actually move work forward.
We're not just building a product; we're starting a movement to fix collaboration culture. If we can save even a fraction of that $40 billion being wasted on bad meetings, if we can give people back even a few hours of their week, if we can ensure that brilliant ideas don't disappear - that's a future worth building.
Join us in reimagining Collaboration
If you're tired of meetings that go nowhere, if you've watched great ideas die because nobody wrote them down, if you believe collaboration should be better - we want to hear from you.
We're looking for beta testers ready to challenge the status quo. People who believe that just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't mean it should continue. Want to be part of the solution? Subscribe to our newsletter for updates and early access to our beta. Drop us a message if you want to see what we're building.
Because it's time meetings started working for us, not the other way around.
— Istvan, Sean, Balazs