Actionist·AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI

· #326 most-used

Transcribe, analyse, and understand any audio

CommunicationProductivityAnalyticsAIMeetings & Video

AssemblyAI is a speech AI platform that converts audio and video into accurate transcripts, then lets you extract meaning — summaries, sentiment, chapter markers, speaker labels, entity detection, and custom Q&A — all from the same API call. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can transcribe meeting recordings within about a minute of upload, search transcripts for key phrases, generate AI summaries, and pipe structured insights directly into your CRM, project tracker, or Slack channel.

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Average time saved
14 hours
per person · per month
≈ 2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of listening to recordings, typing transcripts, writing meeting notes, extracting action items, and checking compliance terms by hand — converting audio to structured data within about a minute of each recording completing.

Schedule

What your AssemblyAI agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
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Multi-app workflows

AssemblyAI × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
6Apps spanned
~71 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For operations
Featured4 apps

Meeting recorded to action items in Notion

When a meeting recording lands in Google Drive, the Operations Agent uploads the file to AssemblyAI, waits for the transcript with speaker diarization, runs a LeMUR custom task to extract action items by speaker, and writes each item to the corresponding owner's Notion task page — all before anyone has typed the first post-meeting email.

~13 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a Zoom or Google Meet recording is saved to Google Drive
Trigger
Step 1
Google Drive
Detect new recording file in the meetings folder
write
Step 2
AssemblyAI
Upload file and create transcription with speaker diarization
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Step 3
AssemblyAI
Get transcription once completed
write
Step 4
AssemblyAI
Run custom LeMUR task to extract action items by speaker
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Step 5
Notion
Write action items to each owner's Notion task page
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Step 6
Slack
Post summary digest to the meeting's Slack thread
Result
Upload file and create transcription with speaker diarizationRun custom LeMUR task to extract action items by speakerWrite action items to each owner's Notion task pagePost summary digest to the meeting's Slack thread
The win
Saved per run
40 min
Runs / week
~20×
Every meeting produces structured action items automatically
Driven byOperations Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    75 min / week
    Manual call note-taking

    Reps listen back to recordings or rely on memory to write CRM notes — a 30-minute call produces 15 minutes of manual note-taking, with key signals frequently missed or misremembered.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent transcribes and structures every call

    The Sales Agent transcribes every call, extracts BANT signals via LeMUR Q&A, and writes structured notes to the CRM deal — within about a minute of the call ending, with zero manual effort from the rep.

  • Marketing
    120 min / week
    Manual podcast transcription and show notes

    The content team either pays a transcription service and waits hours for delivery, or manually types notes while listening — an episode produces show notes after 2-3 hours of combined effort.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent turns recordings into content drafts automatically

    The Marketing Agent uploads the episode, retrieves paragraphs and chapter markers, generates a LeMUR blog outline, and drops a structured draft in Notion within about a minute of the file landing.

  • Customer Support
    90 min / week
    No searchable record of call themes

    Support managers listen to sample calls or rely on agent summaries to spot trends — recurring issues go undetected for weeks because no one has time to review recordings systematically.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces recurring issues from every transcript

    The Customer Support Agent searches all call transcripts weekly for complaint phrases, ranks them by frequency, and posts the insight to the QA dashboard — every issue surface within about a minute of the sweep.

  • Human Resources
    60 min / week
    Manual interview note review

    Hiring managers review interviewer notes in a debrief meeting, relying on written summaries that vary in quality — key candidate signals are frequently missed or interpreted differently by different interviewers.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent extracts structured candidate data from every interview

    The HR Agent runs LeMUR Q&A against each interview transcript, extracting salary, notice period, and skills into the hiring tracker — every candidate record is data-complete before the debrief meeting begins.

  • Finance
    30 min / week
    No visibility on API spend by department

    API usage reports from AssemblyAI are account-level — finance has no automated breakdown by team, and data retention compliance is checked manually and sporadically.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent produces usage reports and enforces retention automatically

    The Finance Agent lists and counts transcriptions by department weekly, flags over-budget teams, and deletes transcriptions past the retention window — producing both the spend report and the compliance log automatically.

  • Operations
    120 min / week
    Manual post-meeting action item distribution

    After each meeting, a designated note-taker writes up action items and sends them to the relevant owners — a 60-minute meeting produces 30-45 minutes of documentation effort, and items are often missed or misattributed.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent extracts and distributes action items from every recording

    The Operations Agent processes every meeting recording — transcribing, extracting action items by speaker, and writing each to the owner's Notion page within about a minute of the transcript completing.

  • Legal
    45 min / week
    Manual compliance keyword review of calls

    Legal relies on agent self-reporting or spot-checks a small sample of call recordings each week — regulated terms used in sales or support calls frequently go undetected until an audit.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent sweeps every transcript for regulated terms automatically

    The Legal Agent searches all customer-facing transcripts for compliance-flagged terms every Monday, logs every match with context, and escalates any week with high flag counts — with no call recordings reviewed manually.

+ 100s of other AssemblyAI automations
Average time saved
54 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
12 people
Hourly rate
$30 / hr
Hours saved / week
42
Hours saved / year
2,100
Annual ROI
$63,000

Based on AssemblyAI's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug AssemblyAI into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Actionist to AssemblyAI with your API key. Generate one from your AssemblyAI account dashboard and paste it in — the connection is verified with a test call before any jobs run.

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Get your API key

Log in to assemblyai.com, click your account icon in the top right, and copy your API key.

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Paste into Actionist

Find AssemblyAI in the Actionist Apps tab, click Connect, and paste your API key into the field.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a test API call to confirm the key is valid. You'll see a green confirmation before any transcription jobs run.

Credentials you'll need
API key*
assemblyai.com → Account → API key — copy and paste here
Actions

16 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
FAQs

Questions about AssemblyAI + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to AssemblyAI?
Go to the Apps tab, find AssemblyAI, and click Connect. You'll be prompted to enter your AssemblyAI API key — generate one at assemblyai.com under your account settings, copy it, and paste it into the API key field. Actionist runs a test call to confirm the connection before any transcription jobs run. Your API key is stored encrypted and is never exposed in logs or outputs.
How long does it take for a transcription to be ready?
AssemblyAI processes audio at faster-than-real-time speed. A 60-minute recording typically produces a completed transcript within about a minute of submission. The exact time varies with file size, enabled features (speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and entity detection each add a small overhead), and API queue length. Actionist polls for completion status and picks up the result as soon as the transcript is ready — you do not need to set a fixed wait time.
Which AssemblyAI features can I use with Actionist?
Actionist supports AssemblyAI's full transcription feature set — speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, auto-chapters, entity detection, PII redaction, and custom vocabulary — all configurable when you create a transcription. After transcription, you can use LeMUR for AI-powered summaries, Q&A, and custom analysis tasks, and the LLM Gateway for chat completion and speech understanding. Subtitle export (SRT and VTT), paragraph and sentence extraction, word search, and redacted audio retrieval are all available as separate actions.
Can Actionist transcribe calls from Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams?
Yes, via the recording file. Actionist does not join live calls as a bot, but it can pick up the recording file once it lands in Google Drive, Dropbox, or another storage location — uploading it to AssemblyAI and triggering the transcription pipeline automatically. Most video conferencing platforms save recordings to a cloud folder; set Actionist to watch that folder and the transcript pipeline starts within about a minute of the file appearing.
How does PII redaction work, and is the original audio deleted?
When you enable PII redaction in the Create a transcription action, AssemblyAI identifies personal identifiers — names, phone numbers, email addresses, credit card numbers — in the audio and produces a redacted audio file where those segments are replaced with silence or a tone. Actionist can retrieve that redacted file for compliant archiving and then delete the original transcript from AssemblyAI via the Delete a transcription action, ensuring no sensitive audio persists in the API account beyond your retention window.
What is LeMUR and how is it different from a standard AI summary?
LeMUR is AssemblyAI's built-in language model layer that operates directly on your transcript data — it is grounded in the actual words spoken, not a model's general knowledge. Unlike sending transcript text to a general-purpose LLM, LeMUR handles chunking, retrieval, and citation automatically, and it can reason across multiple transcripts in a single request. This means summaries, Q&A answers, and custom task outputs are tied to specific moments in the audio — reducing hallucination and giving you traceable, evidence-grounded results.
Can I build a custom agent in Actionist that processes recordings from a specific folder?
Yes. You can build an agent that watches a Google Drive folder, picks up any new audio or video file, uploads it to AssemblyAI, and routes the transcript through whichever analysis steps fit your use case — speaker diarization, LeMUR Q&A, word search, subtitle export. The agent runs on a schedule or triggers from folder events, and you control every step of the pipeline without writing any code.
How do I manage data retention compliance for transcripts stored in AssemblyAI?
Use a scheduled Finance or Legal agent to list all transcriptions weekly and compare creation dates against your retention policy. Any transcript older than your threshold can be automatically deleted using the Delete a transcription action, with each deletion logged to your compliance audit trail. For PII-sensitive recordings, retrieve the redacted audio first and archive it to a compliant storage location before deleting the original from AssemblyAI — Actionist can do both steps in a single scheduled task.