Zoom Video Communications is rolling out its AI-first collaborative docs solution, Zoom Docs, powered by Zoom AI Companion, the company’s generative AI assistant to help drive productivity and collaboration throughout Zoom Workplace.

“Zoom Docs is our first Zoom Workplace product with generative AI built in from the ground up; it effortlessly transforms information from Zoom Meetings into actionable documents and knowledge bases, so teams can stay focused on meaningful work,” Zoom chief product officer, Smita Hashim said.

“Zoom Docs is included at no additional cost with Zoom Workplace paid licenses, creating even more value for our customers. With AI Companion available every step of the way, Zoom Docs is purpose-built to empower people to ‘work happy’ and give them more time back in their day.”

Zoom Docs can help solve critical challenges including saving time on repetitive tasks, information overload, and facilitation of cross-functional alignment. By utilizing Zoom AI Companion to convert meeting outcomes into actionable documents, Zoom Docs can jumpstart content creation and adapt to different individual and team needs.

Zoom Docs’ AI-first capabilities help Zoom Workplace users make teamwork more collaborative and effective, optimise productivity by keeping information organised, and reduce silos by empowering teams to communicate and share information.

Potential use cases for Zoom Docs include:

  • Meeting collaboration:Zoom Docs simplifies meeting collaboration with AI Companion by transforming meeting content into documents, centralisng meeting summaries and facilitating co-editing within meetings.
  • Business documents: Whether creating content, business proposals or reports, AI Companion for Zoom Docs makes content generation, revision, summarisation and translation easy for global teams. 
  • Project planning:Zoom Docs can help with time-saving templates for project briefs and tracking for a variety of use cases like product launches, marketing campaigns, and event management, consolidating project-related materials, and improving visibility across progress tracking, status updates, and timelines. 
  • Information hub:Useful for knowledge-based creation, team onboarding, and goal tracking, users can build robust wikis for a single source of information.