Aaron Klein, the financial services technology investor who founded and led Nitrogen (formerly Riskalyze) for nearly 15 years, has launched a new tech venture aimed at combating meeting inefficiency for financial advisors, dubbed Contio.
Klein offered his vision for the new company in a short video posted on LinkedIn, suggesting the emergence of artificial intelligence-based meeting prep and note-taking tools for advisors have actually added to the efficiency challenge.
“I’ve had this product in my head for seven years, and everyone I talk with agrees — meetings are broken,” Klein said. “AI notetakers are making it worse. Seven robots join the call. They do nothing to make the meeting better — they just record the misery, and send us emails about it.”
Contio will take a different approach, Klein said. The aim is to deploy an AI that can do “95%” of the traditional prep work that goes into organizing an effective meeting — including steps such as gathering necessary data, inviting the right people, setting an effective agenda, identifying next steps and more.
“We’re building powerful AI that allows every person to create snappier, smarter and action-packed meetings,” Klein said. “We call it the MeetingOS. It snaps into your existing calendar, works with any video call platform, and works for your in-person meetings too. This is a big audacious goal, but we've built a top-tier AI team, and we're on a mission to kill broken meetings.”
Formal launch of the platform is anticipated later this year, but interested advisors can now sign up for the waitlist.
Pictured: Aaron Klein
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