AI meeting assistant for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is the backbone of enterprise communication. Calls in Teams carry real stakes — vendor negotiations, executive reviews, cross-team planning, customer escalations. Staying sharp across all of them is hard to do without support.

LiveCue is a bot-free AI meeting assistant for Mac that works with Teams via system audio. You get private real-time cues and a screen-share-safe overlay without touching your organization's Teams settings or adding any Microsoft add-on.

What Microsoft Copilot in Teams does — and where it stops

Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI into Teams for organizations that have purchased the add-on license. It can transcribe meetings, generate summaries, and answer questions about what was discussed. But it comes with a specific set of constraints that not every user or team can work around.

• Requires an M365 Copilot license. As of 2026, this is a paid add-on per user per month, on top of existing Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Many users in organizations with Copilot access still do not have a seat.
• Shared output. Copilot transcripts and summaries in Teams are accessible to meeting organizers and participants, depending on tenant configuration. They are not private to the individual.
• Post-meeting focus. Copilot's most-used features — meeting recap, action item extraction — happen after the call ends. They are useful for follow-up, but they cannot surface a follow-up question while the client is still on the line.
• Recording required for full features. Many Copilot in-meeting features require Teams cloud recording to be enabled for the meeting, which triggers a visible notification banner for all participants.

LiveCue works independently of your Microsoft 365 plan and fills the real-time gap: cues that appear during the conversation, private to your screen.

How LiveCue works with the Teams Mac app

The Teams native Mac app routes audio through macOS like any other application. LiveCue captures that system audio in real time — the same stream your speakers or headphones receive. No integration with the Teams platform is required, and no configuration is needed on the Teams side.

Start your Teams call, open LiveCue, and the overlay appears on your screen. During the meeting, LiveCue monitors what is being said and surfaces short cues: a follow-up question worth asking, an action item mentioned in passing, a detail that contradicts something in your notes.

Teams backgrounds, noise suppression, and network optimization all operate below the audio layer and do not affect LiveCue's capture. The overlay works the same way whether the meeting uses the default Teams layout, Together Mode, or a custom background.

Screen sharing in Teams: why the overlay stays invisible

Screen sharing in Teams is a common workflow — sharing decks, reviewing documents, walking through demos. One concern with any overlay tool is that it might appear in what you share.

LiveCue's overlay is marked at the macOS window level as excluded from screen capture. When Teams captures your screen to share it with other participants, the macOS screen capture API excludes LiveCue's window from that capture. What you share in Teams shows your screen as it would appear without the overlay.

This works when you share your entire screen, when you share a specific application window, and when Teams' screen share is running alongside the meeting. The exclusion is handled by macOS, not by LiveCue applying any per-application workaround.

Teams call types where LiveCue is most useful

Teams hosts a wide range of meeting types, and the way you use LiveCue adapts to each.

• Customer calls and QBRs. Following up on commitments, capturing escalations, asking about renewal signals — cues you need in the moment, not after the call when you are writing up notes.
• Internal planning meetings. Decisions get made, blockers get named, owners get assigned. LiveCue helps you catch those in real time rather than parsing a transcript later to reconstruct who said what.
• Recruiting screens and panel interviews. Structured questions, follow-up probes, candidate notes. LiveCue helps you stay consistent across interviews without visibly consulting a script.
• Vendor and partner negotiations. Tracking what was agreed, what was deferred, and what needs a written follow-up before the meeting ends.

Privacy considerations on Teams calls

Teams in enterprise environments often involves compliance recording, e-discovery policies, and IT monitoring at the tenant level. LiveCue operates on the client side — your Mac — and does not interact with any of those systems. It does not write to Teams, does not access your Microsoft account, and does not send meeting audio to any endpoint that the Teams tenant would log.

That said, you are still responsible for your organization's policies around AI tool use during meetings, consent laws in your region, and the expectations of the people you are speaking with. Use LiveCue to stay organized and engaged — not as a workaround for policies that exist for good reason.

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FAQ

Does LiveCue work with Microsoft Teams on Mac?

Yes. LiveCue captures system audio on your Mac, so it works with the Microsoft Teams native Mac app without any plugin or bot integration. Install LiveCue, start your Teams meeting, and the overlay appears alongside Teams on your screen.

Is LiveCue visible when I share my screen in Teams?

No. LiveCue's overlay is marked as excluded from screen capture at the macOS level. When you share your screen or a window in Teams, the LiveCue overlay does not appear in what other participants see.

How is LiveCue different from Microsoft Copilot in Teams?

Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license (an add-on to existing M365 plans) and generates shared transcripts and meeting summaries visible to meeting organizers. LiveCue requires no Microsoft license, generates private cues visible only to you, and works during the call — not just after.

Does LiveCue add a bot to my Teams call?

No. LiveCue runs entirely on your Mac using system audio. It does not join your Teams call as a participant, does not appear in the meeting roster, and does not trigger any recording notification banner.