ElevenLabs has opened early access to ElevenAI, a workplace app that combines meeting notes, speech dictation and AI agents. The company unveiled it at its New York summit on November 11, 2026, and early access is free. You cannot download it publicly yet, so this guide covers what to expect, how to test it on real work and what to check before it touches sensitive conversations.
Step 1: Decide Whether You Need It
ElevenAI is aimed at teams that run many meetings and want notes without a note-taker. It is most useful if your work involves frequent calls, action items that get lost, or repeated questions about past discussions. If your meetings are mostly one-on-one or you already have a transcription tool that works, the gain may be small.
Before signing up, note which apps your team uses. The early-access coverage describes Google Meet as the main supported app during the beta, so teams that run most calls elsewhere should confirm support before planning around the tool.
Step 2: Sign Up for Early Access
Go to ElevenLabs' website and request early access to ElevenAI. Access is granted through a signup, not a public download. Early access is free, but the company has not published pricing for what comes after, so do not build a budget around it yet.
Step 3: Set Up a Low-Risk Test Meeting
Start with an internal meeting that has no confidential content. Use it to check three things:
- Speaker identification: Does the transcript correctly label who said what? Test with people who have different accents or who speak over each other.
- Action items: Are the extracted tasks real, and do they have the right owners?
- Recall: Ask the tool a question about a past meeting, such as a decision date or a figure. Check the answer against the recording.
Keep a short scorecard. Count missed action items, wrong names and any answer that sounds plausible but is not supported by the transcript. Those counts will tell you more than the marketing.
Step 4: Test Dictation Across Your Apps
Dictation converts speech into cleaned-up text in any app and supports more than 90 languages. The company says it also handles industry-specific terms. To test it, dictate a draft email, a short document and a message in a chat tool. Watch for mistakes with product names, acronyms and numbers, which are the most common errors in any speech-to-text system.
The ElevenAI model is Scribe v3, which ElevenLabs says reduced word errors by 27% compared with Scribe v2 in multilingual tests. That is a company figure, so measure it against your own vocabulary.
Step 5: Check Consent Before Recording Anything Real
This is the most important step. According to the company's usage guide, ElevenAI posts a notice in the meeting chat and shows one on the video, and participants must receive notice whether they join by phone, with video off, or after the meeting starts. Transcription must stop if anyone objects.
Sensitive meetings are excluded unless your agreement with ElevenLabs expressly permits them. The restricted categories include health, financial, privileged legal discussions and anything involving children. If your team handles any of these, check your contract before the first recording.
The coverage does not say how long transcripts are retained, which is a key question for legal and security teams. Ask the vendor directly before using ElevenAI for anything beyond testing.
Step 6: Use Agent Follow-Ups Carefully
ElevenAI can connect to ElevenAgents to draft a follow-up email from meeting notes. Drafts are useful, but review every one before it is sent. An email that misstates a decision or commits to a deadline nobody agreed to can cause more trouble than the time it saves.
What to Expect During the Preview
Early access is a preview, so plan for changes. The company unveiled ElevenAI as a product for teams rather than solo users, which means the most useful test involves a real group meeting with a few people who will give honest feedback. Ask those testers to flag wrong attributions and missed decisions, since those are the errors that damage trust in meeting tools.
Think also about who will see the output. Summaries and action items are sent to attendees when a call ends, so a transcript that quietly includes a misstatement can spread quickly. Build a habit of having the meeting owner review the summary before anyone acts on it, at least for the first few weeks.
Finally, keep a record of what you tested. Note the meeting type, the number of speakers, the language and the platform. When pricing is published after early access, those notes will tell you whether the tool was worth paying for in your specific setting.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Recording without notice: The tool gives notice, but make sure your own process does too, especially for external calls.
- Trusting summaries without checking: Compare the action items against the recording for any important meeting.
- Assuming all apps are supported: Test your actual meeting platform before rolling it out.
- Ignoring data policy: Confirm retention and admin controls with the vendor before the team adopts it.
Bottom Line
ElevenAI is worth a structured trial if your team loses time to meeting follow-up and wants dictation that works across apps. Test it on low-risk meetings first, measure accuracy against your own work and settle the consent and retention questions before anything sensitive goes through it.
