AI meeting assistant for Webex

Cisco Webex is the default meeting platform for a lot of organizations that care more than most about what touches their calls — government agencies, banks, healthcare providers, and enterprises with a security team that reviews every third-party integration before it is allowed near a meeting.

LiveCue is a private AI meeting assistant for Mac that works alongside Webex through system audio. You get real-time cues, follow-up prompts, and a clean recap without a bot joining the call, without a Webex App Hub install, and without asking IT to approve anything.

Webex AI Assistant vs. LiveCue

Cisco bundles its own assistant, Webex AI Assistant, into Webex Suite and Meetings plans. It can generate meeting summaries, provide real-time translation and closed captioning across dozens of languages, and answer catch-up questions during the call. For organizations already standardized on Webex, it's a genuine convenience — but it works differently from LiveCue in a few important ways:

• It's an org-level feature, not a personal one. Webex AI Assistant has to be enabled on your organization's Webex account. In security-conscious deployments — the kind common on Webex — it is frequently left off, and an individual user cannot turn it on for just their own calls.
• Summaries are shared, not private. Meeting summaries and transcripts are typically available to the host and, depending on settings, other participants after the call. There's no version of the feature that gives just you a private, in-the-moment prompt.
• It documents the call; it doesn't coach you through it. Translation, captioning, and summaries tell you and others what was said. They aren't built to nudge you toward the follow-up question you should ask in the next few seconds.

LiveCue is the private counterpart: no Webex setting to enable, works the same whether you are host or guest, and built for the moment during the call rather than the record left after it.

Why Webex environments are especially strict about bots

Webex's install base skews toward regulated and security-sensitive organizations, and many of them have policies that go further than "no unapproved apps":

• Third-party App Hub integrations and meeting bots are often blocked at the account level, regardless of what the individual user wants.
• Compliance teams treat any tool that records or transcribes a meeting as a data-handling question that needs its own review before approval.
• Government and financial-services Webex deployments frequently run in dedicated, hardened environments where almost nothing gets added without a formal request.

LiveCue sidesteps all of that by design: it never calls the Webex API, never joins a meeting as a participant, and never records the call, so it isn't the kind of integration those policies are written to catch.

How LiveCue works with the Webex Mac app

The Webex desktop app, like any other Mac application, plays meeting audio through macOS. LiveCue captures that system audio — the same audio reaching your speakers or headphones — and turns it into short cues on a private overlay. Webex's own audio processing (noise removal, echo cancellation) happens upstream and doesn't interfere.

Join your Webex meeting, open LiveCue, and keep both on screen. Cues surface a few seconds after something relevant is said — a follow-up worth asking, a commitment worth capturing, a number that doesn't match what you expected. It works the same whether you join from the Webex desktop app or from a browser, and across Webex Meetings, Webex Events, and Webex Personal Rooms, since all of them route audio through your Mac.

Screen sharing in Webex: the overlay stays invisible

Webex calls often involve sharing a deck, a dashboard, or an application window for a walkthrough. LiveCue's overlay is flagged at the macOS level as excluded from screen capture. When Webex captures your screen or an application window to share it, the capture omits the overlay — participants see your screen as normal, while your cues stay visible only to you.

This is handled by macOS itself, not a Webex-specific workaround, so it holds for full-screen shares, single-window shares, and Webex's optimized content-share mode alike.

Webex calls where LiveCue helps most

• Vendor and customer calls in regulated industries. Real-time cues without adding another third-party tool to a call your compliance team already scrutinizes.
• Government and public-sector meetings. Works entirely on your Mac, with nothing to submit for security review on the Webex side.
• Cross-team calls in security-hardened Webex environments. Useful exactly where App Hub integrations and bots are already blocked at the account level.
• Internal reviews and stakeholder updates. Tracking decisions and owners in the moment, rather than waiting on an AI Assistant summary that may not even be enabled for your org.

Responsible use

Webex is disproportionately used for calls with compliance stakes — regulated customer conversations, government business, confidential internal matters. You are responsible for your organization's tool-approval process, applicable recording and consent laws, and any sector-specific compliance rules that apply to your meetings. LiveCue is built to help you listen better and follow up more reliably — not to bypass the review process your organization has in place for meeting tools.

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FAQ

Does LiveCue work with the Webex desktop app on Mac?

Yes. LiveCue captures system audio on your Mac, so it works with the Webex Mac app and with Webex in a browser. It is not a Webex integration or bot, so no admin approval, Webex App Hub install, or account setting is required.

How is LiveCue different from Webex AI Assistant?

Webex AI Assistant is a Cisco feature that has to be enabled for your organization's account, and it centers on things like meeting summaries, closed captioning, and real-time translation shared with the host and participants after or during the call. LiveCue needs no Webex license or admin setting, runs privately on your Mac, and is built to prompt you with cues while the call is happening, not to produce a shared summary.

Will other participants see LiveCue when I share my screen in Webex?

No. LiveCue's overlay is excluded from macOS screen capture, so it does not appear when you share your whole screen or a single window in a Webex meeting.

Does LiveCue work on Webex calls where third-party bots are blocked?

Yes. Many Webex deployments in government, finance, and healthcare block third-party meeting bots and App Hub integrations outright. Because LiveCue never touches the Webex API and never joins as a participant, it is unaffected by those blocks — it runs entirely on your Mac, alongside Webex.