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Brad Feld

Dossiers by Contacts+ - Automated attendee briefs for your Google Calendar meetings

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Dossiers fills in the details about your Google Calendar meeting attendees. Use Dossiers to:

- Get a daily email with your overview for the day

- Have attendee briefs linked in your events

- Record & auto transcribe voice notes for each meeting

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Travis Todd
Maker
Hello Product Hunters, and thanks, Brad. We are excited to share Dossiers with you today! I’m Travis, a co-founder at FullContact and worked closely with @mattdelliott to build Dossiers. FullContact Dossiers adds a link to your Google Calendar events with a briefing on each of the attendees so that you have information on your upcoming meeting at your fingertips. It is also tightly coupled with your FullContact address book so that private contact information, tags, and notes are surfaced to you in the dossier. We’ve been users of a few similar products over the years but felt like they fell short in a few ways. We wanted a single, clean place where anyone attending the meeting could view the dossier so that everyone is prepared. We feel that there are numerous sources of insights that could be added to the briefings and while many of these will be coming in the future, our first was exposing private contact data from your address book to your view of the briefing. We also feel like in leveraging FullContact’s API’s we have one of the better data sources available in powering a product like this. It’s free to use so check it out and let us know what you think!
Travis Todd
Maker
Thanks for all the feedback on our first release of Dossiers. We've taken your comments into account and are excited to share some updates with you. Starting today, you'll notice the Daily Dossier email has a new look and feel. We've also applied some of these visual changes to the web view. Dossiers is a project we continue to iterate and improve upon, so please continue to share your suggestions with us!
Vasu Nadella
What's next in terms of insights that you're hoping to add to the Dossier?
Travis Todd
Maker
@vasu_nadella great question! We have actually prototyped a few that we are using internally to better understand who our own customers are. But you could imagine things like: Billing systems such as Stripe / etc - Is this attendee a paying customer? What billing plan are they on? How long have they been a customer? Support Systems - Has the attendee filed a support request with us recently? What was the request, etc.? CRM Systems - Is this person a lead/contact? Has someone else in my organization been talking with them and what have those conversations been? Email - when/what were my recent emails with this person? Phone/SMS - when is the last time we talked by phone? I think there are numerous cases like this but this is the flavor of what we are thinking! If anyone has ideas or votes, leave them here in the comments as we would love any feedback.
Arjun R Pillai
@vasu_nadella @travis_todd I would love to see any kind of intra-company communication so that I don't speak off context, especially when Im not a big company. I would also love to see who amongst my network knows the person well.
Travis Todd
Maker
@vasu_nadella @rarjunpillai Absolutely, like Salesforce activity data as an example.
Jonathan Chizick
Pretty slick. How can I get it to pull in both my personal Google calendar and my Google Apps calendar (i.e. my company calendar)? My FullContact account is already connected to both.
Matt Elliott
Maker
@jcinsv At this point you'll have to sign out and sign in with the other google account. That will get it working for both accounts. Right now we don't have an option to combine dashboards for multiple google accounts, but you'll get the links in your events automatically on both. Perhaps in the future we will have an option to login using either and see a unified dashboard.
Matt Elliott
Maker
@jcinsv Another suggestion would be to delegate access in Google Calendars from one account to another. With Read/Write access it'll show up in My Calendars.
Jonathan Chizick
Thanks Matt. Your first suggestion seems to be working. It's not pulling in info for everyone though. Some people are listed as "No Information Available" on the Dossier page even though there's plenty of info showing in their FullContact entry.
Travis Todd
Maker
@jcinsv We'll take a look at this. Just guessing but we might have a bug where if we don't find public info, we then aren't displaying private info.
Jonathan Chizick
@travis_todd quick turnaround :) Saw this in my morning dossier email - "What's New In Dossiers Your private address book data is now included in your dossiers. Just make sure you're logged in and have your FullContact account linked"
Alexei Levene
this really is a cool idea, how many times looking up profiles while running to meetings! great job guys look forward to using this!
Travis Todd
Maker
@lexi2017 Thanks Alexei!
Jeff Judge
I started using these a few days ago and think they're great - nice work! My only feedback would be to change the font, as I have a slightly hard time reading it (ex: https://dossier.fullcontact.com/...)
Travis Todd
Maker
@jjudge Thanks for the feedback and trying it out Jeff! We've received the same feedback from a few others as well, so we will get that changed / improved!
Peter van Teeseling
Good concept. Any chance of integration with Office?
Travis Todd
Maker
@pvantees Thanks! We'll see how this one goes and possibly give it consideration in the future.
Yadukrishnan S
Looks good, yet to try out - would you show the dossier or will you email me?
Travis Todd
Maker
@yadu236 The dossier can optionally be added to your calendar events as a link. You can also optionally have it send you an email each morning at roughly 5am local time (based on your calendar setting) which will be a summary of your day with links to the various dossiers. Finally, you can also view the dossiers at any time by just visiting the dashboard at https://dossier.fullcontact.com.
Sanjay Nediyara
Is the dossier private for me?
Travis Todd
Maker
@cod3boy There is a public view of the dossier that is shared with everyone on the event (assuming you have that setting turned on). However, if you also authenticate to your FullContact address book it will show your private contact information to you in the dossier, but that portion of the briefing is private to just you (phone numbers, email, tags, notes, etc.).
Shawn Cheng
So excited to use this. I get a digest at the top of the morning for both my Gcal and my Todoist. A swipeable card based system to flip through my meetings that day would be something I'd love in looking over my schedule each morning.
Travis Todd
Maker
@shawn_cheng Let us know how it goes Shawn. I turned my GCal digest off last week because the morning dossier has everything it has plus links to all the briefings!
Jeff Nolan
Another vote for Office 365 support. I’ve been using Accompany on my personal gmail, but like this app it does not support Outlook. Microsoft is on track for 120 million users on O365, all business users, and based on that alone and the lack of competitive options, an Outlook plugin is a rich opportunity.
Travis Todd
Maker
@jeffnolan Thanks, Jeff! We will look into what kind of a lift it will be and give it consideration.