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ZoomMate: built to finish what your meetings start

Meet ZoomMate — the AI workspace built into Zoom Workplace that uses agentic search, orchestration, and creation to move work from conversation to completion.

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Published on June 1, 2026

In this blog

01 What is ZoomMate? - Jumplink to What is ZoomMate?
02 The conversation-to-completion framework - Jumplink to The conversation-to-completion framework
03 Search: agentic search and deep research - Jumplink to Search: agentic search and deep research
04 Orchestrate: workflows and agents - Jumplink to Orchestrate: workflows and agents
05 Create: AI-first productivity tools - Jumplink to Create: AI-first productivity tools
06 How the ZoomMate architecture fits together - Jumplink to How the ZoomMate architecture fits together
07 Real-world business impact - Jumplink to Real-world business impact
08 Turn conversations into finished work - Jumplink to Turn conversations into finished work

Robin Bunevich

Product Marketing Manager, Zoom AI

Robin Bunevich is a Product Marketing Manager at Zoom. She oversees product marketing and strategy for Zoom AI. After three years of leading marketing for Zoom’s Event Solution products, and launching one of the fastest growing products at Zoom, Zoom Events, she is now focused on helping organizations seamlessly adopt AI into their workflows. Prior to Zoom, she ran marketing for live events at The New York Times, and was instrumental in helping the organization transition to a fully virtual events program in March of 2020. At Zoom, Robin uses her 15 plus years of marketing and advertising experience to drive awareness and adoption for Zoom’s AI solutions.

Every workday is built on conversations. Strategy gets decided in a meeting. Project commitments land in a chat. Customer needs surface on a call. But most of the tools meant to make that work easier stop at documenting the conversation. They transcribe it, summarize it, file it away — and quietly hand the real work back to you.

That gap is also where many enterprise AI investments stall. McKinsey's Superagency in the Workplace report found that 92% of companies plan to increase AI spending over the next three years, yet only 1% of leaders say their organization has reached AI maturity.¹ The challenge isn't ambition. It's closing the distance between a conversation and a completed task.

ZoomMate is built to close that gap — an intelligent work layer designed to move work from conversation to completion through retrieval, orchestration, creation, and execution inside the flow of the conversations you're already having.

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ZoomMate is an AI workspace built into Zoom Workplace — your personal AI teammate for the workday. It understands, learns, and acts across your day, so the things you decide in a conversation actually get done. You lead with intent; ZoomMate handles the follow-through.

That last part is the shift. Most AI assistants live in a sidebar, waiting for you to write a prompt. ZoomMate lives where work already happens — your meetings, chats, notes, and the systems your team relies on — and it knows what to do next without being asked to start from scratch every time. You get an assistant that understands the context of your work, not just the content of a single document. And you get one system of action instead of another tool to learn, another license to manage, and another place for sensitive data to live.

ZoomMate organizes its work around three things you already do every day: Find, Take Action, and Create.

Search retrieves the information and context you need across the systems where your work actually lives — Zoom and the third-party apps connected to it.
Orchestrate executes the workflows and operational tasks that conversations generate — follow-ups, updates, assignments, approvals — with human-in-the-loop oversight where you want it.
Complete generates the deliverables those conversations are pointing toward — slides, sheets, briefs, project plans — grounded in the context of the discussion that prompted them.

Each capability is useful on its own. But the value compounds when they work together: a customer call ends, and the action items, the updated CRM record, the recap email, and the draft of the follow-up deck are already in motion — all grounded in what was actually said.

Cross-system search has long been a friction point inside most organizations. Information sits in a CRM, a project tool, a wiki, a shared drive, a meeting recording from three weeks ago, and a chat thread from this morning. Finding the right answer means knowing which system to check, what keywords might surface it, and how to stitch the pieces together.

ZoomMate replaces that with agentic search. You ask a question in natural language, and ZoomMate searches across the systems you've connected — Google Drive, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Confluence, OneDrive, Box, and Zoom's own meeting and chat history — to return a synthesized, cited answer. Not a list of links. An answer.

Two characteristics matter. First, retrieval is context-aware: ZoomMate understands the kind of question you're asking and the kind of source most likely to answer it. Second, it's permissions-aware: you only see information you already have access to. If your role-based access in ServiceNow says you can see certain incidents, ZoomMate respects that. For deeper questions, ZoomMate's deep research capability runs longer-horizon investigations across multiple sources and returns a structured response with citations back to the originals.

Finding the answer is half the job. The other half is doing something about it — and that's where some AI tools stop and teams reach for yet another system. ZoomMate brings that execution layer into the same surface where the conversation happens. It can assign tasks, initiate multi-step workflows, update systems of record, coordinate follow-through across teams, and automate the recurring work that quietly eats up a calendar.

Two capabilities power this:

Workflows are conversational and visual automations that handle multi-step processes across meetings, apps, and systems. You can describe a workflow in natural language ("when someone files a support ticket about pricing, route it to the sales team and post a notification in the deal channel"), use pre-built templates, or build one visually. They run on triggers — events, schedules, or agentic logic — and can be configured with approval checkpoints to keep you in the loop where approvals are needed.

Agents are custom-built AI assistants that understand a specific corner of your organization — a team, a function, a product line. They can be activated where work happens (Zoom Chats and channels) and they can answer questions, take actions, and call out to third-party apps to actually execute on what was discussed.*

The result is that the gap between "we agreed in the meeting" and "it's done" shrinks from days to minutes — without forcing anyone to switch tools to make it happen.

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A lot of what conversations point toward isn't a task in a system. It's a deliverable: a customer-facing presentation, a status report, a strategy brief, a data table for a board review. Creating those today is its own multi-tool exercise, and most of the time spent on them is reformatting context that already exists somewhere.

The Zoom AI Productivity Suite turns that on its head. Slides, Sheets, Paper, and Canvas are AI-first creation tools that generate polished outputs grounded in the conversations that prompted them. The deck for next week's customer review is drafted from the last three calls with that customer, the CRM record, and the brief you wrote in chat. The Q3 status report is assembled from actual project conversations and tracker updates, not retyped from memory. You still drive the work, edit, and decide what ships. But you start at "first usable draft" rather than "blank page," and the draft is informed by what was discussed.

Behind the scenes, ZoomMate is a coordinated system of capabilities working in concert.

The ZoomMate workspace is the unified surface where meetings, documents, chats, and Projects come together so AI can act with full context.
My Notes serves as the persistent memory layer that can capture context from your conversations, including Zoom meetings, third-party meetings, and in-person discussions.
Agentic Search is the retrieval engine connecting Zoom, the web, and third-party sources.
Workflows is the automation builder — conversational and visual — that turns recurring actions into governed, repeatable processes.
Agents are the custom assistants you and your teams configure, available in chats and channels, with secure execution across third-party apps.
The Zoom AI Productivity Suite — Slides, Sheets, Paper, and Canvas — is where insights and conversations become tangible deliverables.

The point of designing it this way is straightforward: you don't want a patchwork of AI experiences with six different policies and vendor relationships. You want one.

The most advanced ZoomMate capabilities — agentic search, deep research, workflow automation, and AI-generated deliverables — are available as metered services that use AI credits.

The promise of moving work from conversation to completion is only as good as the time it actually gives back. Data from Zoom's 2026 GenAI ROI Study (a quantitative survey of 500 U.S.-based knowledge workers) suggests the gap is meaningful. Zoom AI users report reclaiming three to six hours per week from meeting prep and follow-up alone. Among Zoom AI users, 72% rate AI's business impact as high or extremely high, compared with 63% for users of the broader generative AI market. And 86% of GenAI users overall report improved productivity once they have AI integrated into their workflow.

What that looks like by segment:

For professional services firms, ZoomMate compresses the time between a client call and the deliverable that follows. The brief that used to take a Sunday night now can be drafted automatically from the call, prior engagement notes, and the client's shared materials.
For SMB teams, ZoomMate replaces the patchwork of single-purpose tools that quietly multiply as a company grows. One system reduces tool sprawl, software cost, and the coordination overhead of stitching it all together.
For enterprise operations, the value compounds across functions. IT resolves incidents faster with cited, permissions-aware answers across ServiceNow, Google Drive, and meeting history. Sales accelerates deals with full context at their fingertips. HR handles employee requests without dragging people through documentation. Every team operates on the same AI platform with the same controls.

The throughline is the same in all three: less coordination overhead, faster decisions, fewer tools, and more time spent on the work that only humans can do.

The first wave of workplace AI gave us better notes. The next wave is going to give us back the hours between the conversation and the completed task — the hours your team is currently spending on follow-up emails, status decks, CRM updates, and the slow translation of what was discussed into what gets done.

ZoomMate is built for that next wave: retrieval that answers in context, workflows and agents that execute across your stack, creation tools that draft the deliverable while the conversation is still fresh, and simplicity that lets IT deploy it at scale.

Try ZoomMate and let the AI handle the follow-through — from retrieval and execution to the deliverable your team needed yesterday.

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¹ McKinsey, "Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI's full potential", January 2025.

*Agents will be available later in June 2026.

ZoomMate is now available for purchase with included AI Credits for metered AI actions. Please note that availability may vary by customer type, region, and industry vertical at launch, with broader rollout expected throughout the year.