Unpopular opinion: We wasted 6 months on Sembly. Our team just doesn't use the notes.

Alright, I’ll go first. This might ruffle some feathers, but our team just admitted that we barely open Sembly after meetings. We pushed hard for adoption six months ago, convinced it would revolutionize our note-taking and accountability. The ROI just isn’t there for us.

Here’s what happened:
* The AI summaries are impressively accurate, but they live in a silo. No one remembers to check the Sembly dashboard post-call.
* We already have meeting notes in our project management tool (Linear) and action items in Slack threads. Sembly became a third, redundant source of truth.
* The “smart meeting assistant” tag felt more like a passive transcript librarian than an active workflow participant. It didn’t integrate deeply enough into our CI/CD or sprint review process to become habitual.

I’m passionate about automation that sticks, and this one didn’t. The tool itself isn’t bad—it’s clever tech. But for a team already deep in other DevOps tools, it was just another notification to ignore. We’ve since switched to a simpler, automated post-meeting digest via a custom Slack workflow that pushes action items directly from our notes. Far less “smart,” but 100% more used.

Has anyone else faced this adoption gap? Especially in engineering teams where workflow integration is everything. I’d love to hear how you made it work, or what you switched to.

Keep automating!