The Assistant during a call

What you're looking at

The panel keeps a running score of how the call is going, a one-line coach verdict, and cards as things happen: a suggested answer when the other side asks something, a blocker when a deal-breaker comes up, action items as they're agreed. Blockers stay pinned until you mark them handled. If a card was wrong or already dealt with, dismiss it and it's gone.

The "You 44%" number in the header is your share of the talking. If it creeps up too high, that's the app politely telling you to let the other person speak.

The Briefed card

The first card in the panel tells you what the Assistant is working with: the profile, your brief, and the documents in play. It stays open until the first suggestion lands, then folds into one line you can click to reopen. Forgot the brief? "Add a brief" lets you type it mid-call, and the next suggestion uses it. The Knowledge link opens Settings so you can add or tag documents without leaving the call.

Turning the Assistant off

Flip the Assistant switch at the top of the call screen, choose Turn Assistant Off in the menu bar, or press the pause button next to the status badge. While it's off, nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is spent: no requests, no tokens, no quota. A request already on its way is cancelled too. The recording and the transcript keep going, and the report is still written when the call ends. Turn it back on and the Assistant catches up with what it missed. Your cards stay exactly where they were. Good for private stretches, casual chats, or saving your free-tier allowance for the meeting that matters.

Live nudges

Sometimes a short tip appears at the top of your screen, over the call: "They've gone quiet since you said 'the price goes up in January'." It fades after about ten seconds; click it to open Parrot at that moment. The same tip sits above the coach line in the Assistant panel until you close it.

• Gone quiet: you finished a line and they've been silent for much longer than they usually take to answer.
• Long monologue: you've talked for over a minute and a half without them saying anything.
• Talking over: you started speaking while they were still talking, three times in five minutes.
• Short answers: their answers have gone short after longer ones earlier.
• Speeding up: you're talking much faster than you did earlier in the call.
• Repeated point: they've said the same thing three times.
• Mood shift, Unanswered question and Wrap-up need the Assistant: a gauge moved sharply, a question they asked is still open after three minutes, or the call is ending with things still open.

At most one tip every two minutes, and none in the first two. Tips read timing and words only; nothing tries to read feelings from anyone's voice. The pill is left out of screen sharing, so the other side never sees it. Turn tips off in Settings → Assistant → Live Nudges.

Controlling what it costs

Two settings in Settings → Assistant decide how much the Assistant spends, whether that's money or a free plan's rate limits:

• Pace is how often Parrot asks the model for advice. Fast is the classic always-on feel. Balanced is a couple of requests per minute. Relaxed is roughly one per minute, which fits free model tiers that block you for asking too often. The honest tradeoff: on Relaxed, a tip can arrive up to a minute late.
• Conversation sent per request is how much recent talk each request carries: the last 2, 5, or 10 minutes. Smaller is cheaper and faster, especially on local models. The Assistant doesn't forget the earlier call either way, because its own cards ride along as memory.