The client goes quiet. Glances off to the side of the screen. Types into the chat: "sorry, is that a bot recording?" The next twenty minutes of the call go differently. More careful. Flatter. This isn't about ethics. It's about the fact that a conversation changes when there's a visible witness in it. Ten AI assistants that never join the call — including CatchMeet, which we built. Forty real meetings. Eight weeks. Below: how it works, what survived, where it breaks, and what happens with ...