Extract Decisions and Next Steps From Meeting Transcripts

A decision record is a short page that reorganizes a meeting for follow-through: what the group decided, who committed to what, which questions remain open, and what happens next. It exists because the two documents you already have cannot do that job.

A transcript preserves the meeting's words but leaves the outcomes scattered through an hour of discussion. A recap compresses the talk into themes and often drops who committed to what. Neither one tells a teammate what to do on Monday.

The record centers on decisions, commitments, unresolved questions, and next steps, with a short context summary only when a reader missed the meeting. The finished record answers what changed, what remains open, who owns the next action, and when it is due without forcing anyone to replay the hour.