Calls and Huddles Talking instead of typing, from wherever the conversation already is.

Some conversations are three messages long and some should have been a two-minute call twenty messages ago. Both start from where you already are.

Calls

Call a colleague from the conversation you are in. No link, no invitation, no scheduling.

On the phone app, an incoming call rings like a phone call with a full-screen answer, rather than arriving as a notification you might miss. That matters: a chat notification is easy to ignore and a ringing phone is not, which is the point of calling rather than typing.

Screen sharing is available on a call, and turns your status to Presenting so colleagues can see why you are not replying.

Huddles

A huddle is a meeting started from a room, taking that room's people with it.

The difference from a call is scale and intent: a call is a conversation, a huddle is a meeting that happens to have been convened in ten seconds. Starting one from a channel means the people already discussing the thing are the invitees.

Huddles are internal. They are for colleagues. A meeting with anyone outside your organisation needs Google Meet, Teams or Zoom, and the platform will choose one when an external attendee is present.

When it goes on the calendar

A huddle scheduled rather than started now becomes a calendar event like any other, and can be recorded by Pippin Scribe if you want a write-up.

An ad-hoc call is not recorded. If a conversation is going to matter, it is worth the extra few seconds to start it as something that leaves a record.

What it costs

Calls and huddles cost nothing.

Recording a meeting draws on your included hours rather than your credits. Asking for a transcript of a voice message is a language model listening, and that does spend credits.