A note-taker records the meeting. You still find the problem at seven in the evening, reading a transcript, after the decision was made.
Hour 0 reads what is being said against everything the project already knows — every document, every earlier call, every saved decision — and speaks up while there is still time.
In one real meeting, Hour 0 caught two requirements that could not both be true. Nobody had noticed. The conflict was not in anyone’s memory — it was in a call from three weeks earlier. The difference is not that it was listening. It is that it had read everything else first.
Ask anything, mid-meeting
Type a question and get an answer without asking the room.
“What’s a channel manager, and why would we sync on a schedule instead of live?” “What did we agree about the cancellation window?” “Is this in scope?” You stay in the conversation; you just stop having to bluff.
Ask now
“Which system owns the room-status list?”
Because a decision is about to be made without it.
Capture
“Billing starts at check-in, not at booking.”
Someone said it in passing and nobody wrote it down.
Watch
“This contradicts the refund rule agreed on 12 June.”
From a transcript three weeks old that nobody in the room remembers.