Spend Control for Meeting Agents
Meeting agents record, transcribe, and summarize — each step bills per minute of audio and per token. At team scale, that's real money.
Where meeting agents spend
Transcription APIs billed per audio minute.
Summarization inference per meeting.
Search and retrieval tools over the transcript corpus.
Per-seat platforms (Fireflies, Otter) plus AI credits.
The failure modes
A transcription retry loop re-bills audio minutes.
Summarization running over every meeting, including ones nobody reads.
Corpus-scale retrieval hitting expensive tiers.
Which rules to start with
Per-team daily ceiling on transcription.
Category rule: transcription vs summarization.
Velocity limit on retries.
Spend map
| Meeting spend | Control |
|---|---|
| Transcription | Daily ceiling |
| Summarization | Category budget |
| Retrieval | Per-agent cap |
| Platform seats | Merchant allowlist |
FAQ
Can I cap per team?
Yes — per-agent rules per team.
What's the biggest lever?
Summarization scope — only summarize meetings that matter.
Related
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