This app will sit in your Google Meet call so you don't have to

Key points

• MeetTwins, built by Indian developer Aditya Shinde, is an AI-powered meeting proxy currently in public beta recruitment that attends Google Meet calls in place of a human.
• The bot uses AI models from Indian firm Sarvam and can display a talking digital avatar, a computer-generated face that speaks on screen, built with a tool called Simli.
• MeetTwins will only answer questions the user pre-approves; anything outside that brief triggers a post-meeting email summary to the human owner instead.
• Any meeting participant who objects can type "/stop" in the chat and the bot leaves immediately.

Most of us have sat through a status call that could have been three lines in a chat message. Aditya Shinde, an Indian software developer, felt the same way, and rather than complain about it, he built a product.

MeetTwins, first reported by The Register AI, is an AI assistant designed for one job: turning up to your Google Meet call while you do something else. You brief the bot before the meeting, telling it which questions it can answer, uploading any documents participants might ask for, and flagging any topics that are off limits. Once you're done, it joins the call, speaks when spoken to, and sends you a tidy email summary once the meeting ends.

The avatar side is optional but striking. Using Simli, MeetTwins can show a digital twin, a generated face that moves and speaks, rather than a blank profile picture. Whether that makes the experience feel more or less human is something each colleague will answer differently.

What stops it from making things up?

Shinde built a hard guardrail into the system: MeetTwins will not guess. If someone asks something outside the approved brief, the bot says so and flags the question for the human owner's follow-up email. "If a prospect asks something that isn't covered in the brief, MeetTwins will not try to improvise," Shinde told The Register AI.

That is a genuine design choice, because most AI chatbots, the text-based programs that generate conversational replies using large language models, do try to fill gaps, sometimes badly. MeetTwins is deliberately narrower.

Should the people in the meeting know they're talking to a bot?

Yes, and Shinde says the bot announces itself as AI when it first speaks. He argues that transparency actually builds trust. Sceptics may disagree, but the "/stop" command at least gives any uncomfortable participant an exit: type it in the meeting chat and MeetTwins leaves the call on the spot.

The honest read here is that MeetTwins will thrive in very specific situations, routine client check-ins with a tight script or student-workers juggling a lecture and a status update, and cause friction everywhere else. Sending a bot to a one-on-one with your manager is a different proposition from sending one to a weekly team standup.

This fits a broader pattern AI2Day has been tracking. Our story on Google Beam's video booths landing in six countries, published 23 September 2026, showed how quickly the infrastructure around video calling is being rebuilt from scratch. Third-party developers layering AI onto Google Meet are the next obvious step, and MeetTwins is an early, blunt example of where that goes.

Pricing details are not yet public; the product is still recruiting beta users via its website. Privacy-wise, the bot needs to hear your meeting audio to function, so check whether your company's data policies allow a third-party tool to process call content before you sign up.

Common questions

Can colleagues tell they're talking to a bot?

Yes, if MeetTwins is set up as intended. Shinde says the bot declares itself as AI when it first speaks and its name appears in the participant list.

What happens if the bot gets a question it can't answer?

The bot tells the questioner the topic is outside its brief, then flags it in a summary email sent to the human user after the call ends. Guessing is not on the menu.

Is MeetTwins free to use?

No pricing has been published yet. The product is in beta, and interested users can join the waiting list on the MeetTwins website. Check the site for updates on tiers and cost.