Turn a design review into an architecture diagram

Design reviews generate decisions faster than the whiteboard photo can capture them. MeetingSketch reads the transcript and produces the agreed architecture as a clean diagram — plus a brief and the action items raised in the review.

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A worked example

Here is a short sample transcript from a design review and the architecture, brief, and action items MeetingSketch generates from it.

Sample a design review transcript
Reviewer: Why synchronous calls between checkout and inventory?
Author: Fair — we'll make it event-driven. Checkout emits an OrderPlaced event.
Author: Inventory and shipping both consume it from an event bus.
Reviewer: Use the outbox pattern so the DB write and event publish are atomic.
Author: Agreed — outbox table plus a relay to the bus.
→ What MeetingSketch generated
Agreed event-driven order flow (generated from the design review)
Services
Checkout serviceInventory serviceShipping service
Pattern
Outbox + relay
Async
Event bus
Data flows
  • Checkout service→Outbox + relay · write + event (atomic)
  • Outbox + relay→Event bus · relay OrderPlaced
  • Event bus→Inventory service
  • Event bus→Shipping service
Executive brief (excerpt)
  • The review replaced synchronous checkout→inventory calls with an event-driven design: checkout emits OrderPlaced, consumed by inventory and shipping via an event bus.
  • The outbox pattern guarantees the DB write and event publish are atomic, preventing lost events.
  • This decouples the services and removes a synchronous failure path from checkout.
Action items
  • Implement outbox table + relay in checkoutHigh
  • Define OrderPlaced event schemaHigh
  • Add idempotent consumers in inventory + shippingMedium

How it works for a design review

  1. 1Capture the design-review transcript (Zoom, Teams, Otter, etc.).
  2. 2Paste it into MeetingSketch.
  3. 3Get the agreed architecture as a diagram, a brief, and the action items raised.

FAQ

Does it capture decisions and trade-offs, not just boxes?

Yes — the executive brief records the decisions and reasoning (e.g. "moved to event-driven for decoupling"), alongside the diagram and action items.

Can two reviewers get the same shared diagram?

Yes — export or share the result so everyone reviews the same artifact instead of a whiteboard photo.

Turn your next a design review call into a diagram

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