Meeting Test — for the person calling it

Is this meeting worth holding?

Before you send the invite, run the test. If the meeting is worth holding, you'll get a sharper version of it. If it isn't, you'll get an honest verdict and something better to do instead — a doc, a Teams post, a decision you make yourself. Either way, the people you'd have invited get their hour back.

How this works

Think of this as a self-coaching tool for the person organizing the meeting. It's forward-looking — no transcripts, no scoring of attendees, no interpersonal drama. You answer a few questions about the meeting you're planning, and you get one of four verdicts:

  • Hold — this meeting should happen. Here are the 2–3 things that'll make it actually work.
  • Reshape — it's a meeting, but not the meeting you planned. Here's a tighter agenda and who to cut from the invite.
  • Go Async — a Teams post, a Loom, a shared doc. Here's the template.
  • Cancel — don't hold it. Here's what to tell people, and what (if anything) replaces it.

If the verdict is Cancel or Go Async, you can one-click submit the meeting to the Elimination Project queue and the team will publish a public decision with reasoning.

If you can't name a decision, that's the answer — it's not a meeting.
If you can't name a required role for someone, they don't need to be there.