More useful person cards
Person cards now bring details from past conversations together with information from the web. Open a card during a meeting to catch up on someone and see what you last discussed.
If you use Ashby for hiring, cards can also include the candidate’s role, hiring stage, and hiring team. An admin connects Ashby, and each person chooses whether to use it. Memories and connected-app details stay private to you.
Cards can appear for meeting participants, including the host, and use the same profiles available in People after the call.
Remember returning guests
Guests can now return to Ready with their name already filled in. Select “Remember me next time” before joining to be recognized on the same browser, without creating an account.
Remembered visits also stay together in other participants’ People profiles, making past conversations easier to find. You can edit your name or turn remembering off before joining. The host still approves each visit.
Already have an account? Stay signed in with Google or Microsoft as usual. This option is only for guests.
Adaptive video quality
Ready now adjusts camera and screen-sharing quality to suit your browser and computer. More capable devices get higher-quality video, while others use settings they can run comfortably. Each adjusts separately, so a clearer camera does not have to come at the expense of your presentation.
Calendar cards are easier to scan, too. Updating a Ready meeting link now preserves other meeting links and the notes around them.
Ask about your meeting
You can now ask your assistant what was decided earlier or what someone just said. Ready looks back through the written conversation, answers aloud, and shows more detail beside the call.
For questions that need information from the web, Ready uses Parallel Web Systems’ Turbo search service to find pages it can read. It can search further when the first results do not answer the question and keep track of what it has found.
This lets Ready explore a question across several sources while you stay in the meeting. Links stay with the answer so you can check a detail or read more.
Ready for Google Calendar
The Ready add-on has been approved for the Google Workspace Marketplace. Add Ready meetings directly to calendar events, without switching between apps.
To get started, create or edit an event and choose “Ready Meeting” from the video-call menu. Ready adds a join link, plus a phone number and PIN when phone access is available. Choosing Ready again for the same event keeps the existing link.
Saving the event also adds the joining details to its description while keeping your agenda intact. Your Google account creates or connects your Ready account, with no separate password or signup form.
You can also open Ready from the Calendar sidebar. Connecting your calendar inside Ready remains a separate choice.
Fixes49
- Fixed navigation and private memory using the wrong workspace after joining a teammate’s meeting.
- An unsuccessful web search no longer hides useful memories or hiring details from Ashby.
- Useful private details stay visible even when web research cannot find a result.
- Ready can match a nickname to a person when the pages it finds explain the connection.
- Fixed tasks failing to appear after meetings with lots of follow-up work.
- Fixed a remembered name replacing a name you had already started typing.
- Fixed cut-off letters in the button for letting guests in.
- Removed the “Try with a different name” button after a host declines entry.
- Fixed remembered guests’ profile names being replaced after each visit.
- The details panel closes when there is nothing to show and no search is running.
- All-day events keep their calendar date instead of shifting with the time zone.
- Prevented duplicate Ready details after a calendar editor reformats an event description.
- Calendar cards keep a readable Ready icon when an event date is unavailable.
- Updating one meeting link preserves links to other meetings and the notes around them.
- Fixed Ready links failing to be added to some calendar events.
- Fixed getting stuck when leaving a call while the camera or microphone was shutting down.
- Fixed cameras and microphones starting after you had already left the call.
- Fixed canceled join attempts adding you to the meeting later.
- A failed video-quality adjustment no longer interrupts an otherwise working camera.
- Fixed the other person’s video being cropped in one-to-one calls.
- Fixed mirrored video making text held up by the other person hard to read.
- Fixed background effects undoing camera settings adjusted for performance.
- Mentioning the same person or company again can reuse its card instead of creating another.
- People with the same name and different stated employers remain separate.
- Long stretches of conversation can be checked for names without skipping the end.
- Fixed follow-up research hiding a previously completed answer.
- Fixed unsuccessful searches switching you away from the button to try again.
- Fixed existing results appearing as new after rejoining or reloading a meeting.
- Fixed photo and background updates changing the selected item in Recent.
- Clicking “Try again” more than once no longer starts the same search repeatedly.
- A message explains when a problem has stopped your voice conversation.
- Fixed spoken answers being cut short, including explanations of when an answer might not apply.
- Fixed simultaneous setup requests preventing the assistant from becoming ready.
- Ready finds meeting links in an Outlook invitation’s location and description, as well as its video-call details.
- Fixed ongoing meetings being interrupted by a temporary sign-in problem.
- Fixed a host’s waiting request remaining in the list after they signed in and joined.
- Fixed unused scheduled meetings ending when a waiting guest left.
- Removed a brief “Meeting notes are locked” error before the upgrade preview.
- Fixed being asked to upgrade before viewing notes included in your trial.
- Stopped upgrade messages appearing for meetings that were too short to produce notes.
- Notes can begin while Ready finishes disconnecting phone callers.
- Repeated summary requests reuse the existing work instead of overwriting saved notes.
- Discarded search results no longer flash in the panel or remain in its history.
- Delayed research progress no longer replaces results that have already been presented.
- Fixed search results dropping short facts such as prices, scores, and dates.
- Preserved source links when preparing a research answer fails.
- Reduced duplicate searches from the same spoken request.
- Fixed Slack follow-ups failing while Ready identified the meeting type.
- Fixed the task assignment menu failing to show people when a workspace included an Owner.
Improvements34
- People who have connected Ashby can open a candidate’s hiring profile from People.
- Person cards show available memory and Ashby details while web research continues.
- Memory and Ashby details load independently, so one unavailable source does not hide the other.
- Profile photos carry through to People and meeting cards, with initials when a photo cannot load.
- Person cards show an email address when the role and company are unavailable.
- Signed-in participants no longer see the “Remember me next time” checkbox.
- Returning guests can edit their remembered name before asking to join.
- Uncheck “Remember me next time” before joining to stop being remembered on this browser.
- Improved spacing and admission controls in the waiting list.
- The waiting room, invitation card, and person cards now share a more consistent appearance.
- Calendar cards now show event dates and align titles, links, and details consistently.
- Calendar errors now distinguish missing access, unavailable events, and service problems.
- Guests and other participants can leave directly using the red call button.
- Camera and screen sharing choose their quality settings independently.
- Video quality settings now carry through camera changes and reconnects.
- Video quality adjusts when your computer is struggling, then improves gradually when it can handle more.
- Three-person calls center the third tile beneath the first two on wider screens.
- Jev, an AI model from TypeSafe, helps spot mentions of people and companies worth checking.
- Names that are hard to make out get a closer look instead of being dismissed immediately.
- Company mentions are checked for useful public background.
- Ready uses nearby sentences to piece together names spoken in several parts.
- A small name button appears when a search starts and updates when the details arrive.
- The assistant can look further back in the meeting for context when answering a question.
- The assistant can give a brief progress update while a longer meeting answer is being prepared.
- Spoken search requests pay closer attention to the date and place you asked about.
- Meeting answers remain available in Recent during the session.
- Upcoming meetings now include calendar events with no other invitees.
- Your name stays filled in if the meeting ends while you are waiting to join.
- Verified sources can help correct company names in research without changing the transcript or quotes.
- Choose Ready Meeting directly from Google Calendar’s video-conferencing menu.
- Choosing Ready again for the same calendar event keeps the same meeting link.
- Joining details include a phone number and PIN when phone access is available.
- Saved events include joining details in their description without replacing the agenda.
- Use your Google account to create or connect your Ready account, without a separate signup form.