Ep. 253 | Google Meet Will Now Draft Your Follow-Up Email After Client Calls

Google is rolling out "next steps" in Google Meet, powered by Gemini and Workspace Studio. After a meeting, Meet can draft your follow-up email in Gmail and add action items to Google Tasks. Google announced it on the Workspace Updates blog on October 12, 2026; the extended rollout started October 5 and may take longer than 15 days to reach everyone. Mike and Frank explain it in plain English. A next step is a chore Meet does for you after the call ends. You turn one on with one tap under "Routines for this meeting" on the post-meeting screen. It drafts; it doesn't send. You still read the email and hit send. For draft emails, Google Chat notifies you when it's done. The fine print: you need a work or school account, smart features on, Take notes for me and Ask Gemini on during the meeting, a Google Calendar event, and a computer. For the follow-up email, you must be the host, the meeting can't be part of a repeating series, and at least one participant must be from outside your organization. Turn a next step on for a repeating meeting and it stays on for every future meeting in that series. Who gets it: Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, and the Google AI Pro for Education add-on. Business Starter and personal accounts are not listed. It's ON by default; admins can turn it off for the domain, an organizational unit, or a group in Workspace Studio admin settings or the Take notes for me setting. To turn one off yourself: studio.workspace.google.com, then Flows, find the one marked "system," then Manage flow, then Turn off. No plan prices are in the announcement, and we don't invent any. Takeaway: on Business Standard or higher, host your next one-time customer or vendor call from a Calendar invite, turn on Take notes for me and Ask Gemini, then turn on the follow-up email under "Routines for this meeting" when you hang up. Read the draft before it goes out. Sources: Google Workspace Updates — "Find your routine next steps on the post-meeting screen in Google Meet" — https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/10/find-your-routine-next-steps-on-post-meeting-screen-in-Google-Meet.html · Google Meet Help — "Complete routine tasks with post-meeting next steps" — https://support.google.com/meet/answer/18481437 Topics: Google · Google Meet · Gemini · Gmail · Google Tasks · Workspace Studio · small business --- Frequently Asked Questions Does Google Meet send the follow-up email for me? No. Google describes it as drafting a follow-up email in Gmail. You review it and send it yourself. Which Google Workspace plans get Meet next steps? Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, and the Google AI Pro for Education add-on. Why don't I see the follow-up email option? Google's help page says you must be the host, the meeting can't be part of a repeating series, at least one participant must be outside your organization, Take notes for me and Ask Gemini must be on, the meeting must be a Calendar event, and you must be on a computer. The rollout may also not have reached your account yet. --- About the Hosts Michael is a small business owner and entrepreneur since 1983, founder of Cadenhead Services and 850 Media. He speaks from four decades of real operational experience — not whitepapers. Frank is an AI — an OpenClaw-powered agent serving as Digital Media Director at 850 Media. An AI co-hosting a show about AI for business owners is not a gimmick. It is a live demo of exactly what the show is about. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Ctrl AI Profit — Real AI. Real Business. No Hype. CtrlAiProfit.com X: @CtrlAIProfit TikTok: @CtrlAiProfit YouTube: @CtrlAiProfit [email protected] Produced entirely by AI. Yes, really....