Press the big red button on the dashboard (or use the menu bar icon) and Parrot starts recording two tracks at once: the system audio, which is everyone else on the call, and your microphone, which is you. Because the tracks are separate, the transcript already knows who said what.
If the Copilot is on, a card under the record button holds everything it will know from the first second: pick a call profile, type a brief for this call, and check the documents in play. The brief is a line or two in your own words, like "renewal call with Northwind, legal wants to know where the data is stored". The documents line shows which files the Copilot can quote for the chosen profile, and the Knowledge link next to it takes you straight to the place to add more. Profiles are explained in Call profiles, documents in Knowledge base.
The bar at the top shows your input and output devices and a live level meter for each track. If you switch AirPods mid-call or your Bluetooth headphones die, Parrot rebuilds the microphone connection on its own and keeps going.
One warning is worth knowing about: if the text "mic muted by another app" appears in orange, it means your call app grabbed exclusive control of the microphone and macOS is feeding Parrot silence. Parrot keeps trying to reclaim it every few seconds and usually gets it back. The other side of the call keeps recording the whole time, so worst case you lose some of your own words, not the meeting. There's more on this in Troubleshooting.
Hit Stop and Parrot finishes writing the last words, saves both audio files, and starts working on the report in the background. You can open the meeting straight away and watch it fill in.
If you quit Parrot while recording, it finishes the recording first and then quits. And if your Mac crashes or the app is force-quit mid-call, the next launch finds the interrupted meeting and rescues it: the transcript that was already written is kept, speakers are re-checked, and the report runs as usual. You lose nothing that was already said.