Connect ChatGPT to your meeting transcripts with Aside
Add Aside to ChatGPT as a custom MCP server and ChatGPT can read your meeting transcripts, prepare your next calls and write your playbooks. It needs ChatGPT Plus or Pro, on the web.
What ChatGPT can do with Aside
ChatGPT gets the text of your meetings: the transcript with your notes in place, and the summary, next steps and follow-up email where Aside wrote one. It can see your calendar for the next two weeks and write a plan for a call, which Aside shows during that call. It can turn a script or a doc into one of your playbooks. It also keeps a memory of you, the people you meet and the companies your calls are about, shared with any other app you connect.
What you need
Aside on a Mac with Apple silicon or a Windows PC, signed in to your Aside account. ChatGPT Plus or Pro, used on the web at chatgpt.com. Custom MCP servers are added through ChatGPT’s Developer mode, which you turn on once.
Set it up
In Aside, open Settings → Account → AI apps, click Connect, then Add next to ChatGPT. Aside copies the connector URL and opens ChatGPT in your browser.
Steps
- In Aside, click Add next to ChatGPT, then Open ChatGPT. The connector URL is now on your clipboard.
- Turn on Developer mode if ChatGPT asks.
- Click +, then Add custom MCP server.
- Type Aside as the name and paste the URL. ChatGPT shows a warning about custom servers. Read it and continue.
- Save it. ChatGPT opens a sign-in page that sends you to the Aside app. Click Allow.
- Optional: Aside can open a new ChatGPT chat with a request already typed, asking it to pass on what it knows about your work and the people you deal with. Nothing is sent until you press Enter.
The URL, if you need it again
Paste it into the server URL field.
https://mcp.asidehq.app
Codex
Codex adds MCP servers its own way. Paste the setup prompt from the Connect page into it and it adds Aside and starts the sign-in.
What to ask ChatGPT
Ask in plain words. ChatGPT picks the Aside tools it needs.
ChatGPT lists last week’s meetings, reads the ones with Laura and answers from the transcripts and next steps.
It writes a few goals, background on who’s coming and answers to have ready. Aside shows them during the call.
Attach the file or paste the script. It saves a playbook in your words.
Aside’s ⌘K or Ctrl+K finds a word across your transcripts. ChatGPT can read several transcripts and answer across them.
It reads the follow-up Aside wrote after the call and edits it in your chat.
It finds the old fact in Aside’s memory and stops it being used.
Privacy
ChatGPT only reaches text in your Aside account: titles, transcripts, summaries, notes, plans, speaker names, playbooks and memory. Audio isn’t stored in your account. From your calendar, only titles, times and attendee names of the next two weeks sync, and each is deleted once the meeting ends. Once ChatGPT reads something, OpenAI’s terms for your plan apply to it. See the privacy page for Aside’s side.
Where ChatGPT fits
Aside records your calls on your computer, transcribes them and guides you during the call. ChatGPT is for the work around the call: preparing, asking questions of past meetings, and writing. It doesn’t join or hear the call. If you use Claude, the Claude page covers it, and Claude’s free plan can add one connector. Every app that works with Aside is on Works with.
Disconnect
In Aside, open Settings → Account → AI apps, click Connect, then Disconnect next to ChatGPT.
Questions
Can ChatGPT read my meeting transcripts?
Yes, once you add Aside as a custom MCP server. ChatGPT can read each meeting’s transcript with your notes, and the summary where Aside wrote one.
Which ChatGPT plan do I need?
Plus or Pro, on the web. You add Aside through Developer mode, which ChatGPT asks you to turn on.
Does ChatGPT get my call audio?
No. ChatGPT reads text only, never audio.
Can ChatGPT write my meeting plan?
Yes. Ask it to prepare a plan for an upcoming meeting and it saves goals, background and ready answers to Aside, which shows them during the call.
Last checked 15 Oct 2026. ChatGPT changes, so check OpenAI’s pages if a step looks different.
Sources
The ChatGPT steps come from Aside’s own setup guide and OpenAI’s developer docs, read on 15 Oct 2026.