I analyzed 50 of my meetings and here's what I found

I've been using Fireflies for over a year. Every 1:1, every standup, every strategy call: recorded, transcribed, sitting in my account.

I always told myself I'd go back and review them. I never did.

Last month I connected Fireflies to Commy and let it scan my last 50 meetings. What came back was equal parts illuminating and embarrassing.

The numbers

Talk/listen ratio: 68/32.

I talk 68% of the time in my meetings. In 1:1s with direct reports, it's even worse: 74%. I'm supposed to be there to listen and coach, not lecture.

Filler words: 23 per meeting.

"Um", "you know", "like", "sort of". Twenty-three per meeting average. In one particularly bad board prep call, I hit 47. Forty-seven times I undermined my own credibility.

Question frequency: 1 per 8 minutes.

The best conversationalists I know ask a question every 2-3 minutes. I was at one every 8. No wonder my 1:1s felt like status updates rather than coaching conversations.

Clarity score: 71/100.

This surprised me. My technical explanations score well (83). My emotional and interpersonal framing brings the average down significantly (54). When I'm talking about systems and processes, I'm clear. When I'm talking about feelings, expectations, or relationships: I'm vague.

What I did about it

Commy built me a coaching plan from these patterns:

1. Filler word reduction. Practiced salary negotiation drills with a rule: any "um" resets the clock. Brutal. Effective.
2. Power questions. Drilled the "asking powerful questions in 1:1s" scenario 8 times in one week.
3. Emotional clarity. Worked through the "difficult feedback delivery" scenario to improve my framing language.

Three weeks later, I re-ran the analysis on my most recent 10 meetings.

• Filler words: down to 9 per meeting (from 23)
• Talk ratio: down to 61% (from 68%)
• Question frequency: up to 1 every 4.5 minutes

Not perfect. But noticeably different. My team noticed before I said anything.

What surprised me most

The data doesn't lie, but it also can't tell you *why*. Commy's analysis showed me the "what": the patterns in aggregate. The drills helped me practice the "how." But the "why", why do I go quiet in group settings but dominate 1:1s? Why do filler words spike in certain meeting types? That's the work I'm now doing intentionally.

If you use Fireflies and you've never done this analysis, I'd strongly encourage it. You probably have a year of data sitting there. It knows things about how you communicate that you don't.

Try it yourself: Connect Fireflies to Commy and get your first debrief in under 2 minutes.