Aissence Extension & App Guide

Aissence works alongside your online meetings — as a Chrome extension and a desktop app — to help you prepare, stay organised, and follow up well. This page is an honest walkthrough of what each surface does, how to set it up, and how to use it in a way that's professional and appropriate: as a preparation and review tool you rely on before and after meetings, and a legitimate assistant during your own practice sessions and note-taking workflows.

Straight talk up front: the right way to use an AI meeting assistant is the same as the right way to use notes, checklists, or a coach — to prepare better, communicate more clearly, and capture what happened. Use these tools in contexts where AI assistance is expected or welcome, and rely on preparation — not live prompting — when it isn't.

The extension and the desktop app: what each is for

The Chrome extension is the lightweight surface: it lives in your browser alongside web-based meeting platforms and gives you quick access to your preparation materials, notes, and session history. It's the right choice when your workflow lives in the browser and you want minimal setup.

The desktop app is the fuller workspace: it runs alongside any meeting application, holds your preparation documents and practice history, and supports longer review sessions — going back over a mock interview, refining your stories, organising notes across many meetings. If you prepare seriously and often, the desktop app is where the depth lives; the extension is the always-there companion.

Both share one account and one library of materials, so the practical answer to "which one?" is usually "extension for convenience, desktop for depth."

A legitimate meeting workflow, end to end

Here's how the tool fits into a professional meeting rhythm:

• Before: build your prep sheet — the agenda, your talking points, the questions you want to ask, the stories you might tell. Interview prep is the canonical case: load your STAR stories and company research so they're organised in one place while you rehearse.
• Practice: run mock sessions against your own materials. This is where the AI shines — drilling you on likely questions, timing your answers, and flagging rambling before a real audience ever hears it.
• During: in your own meetings where AI assistance is appropriate — internal calls, your own presentations, practice sessions — use your prepared notes and checklists the way you'd use any notes app. In interviews and assessments, rely on the preparation you've built, and follow whatever rules the other side has set.
• After: capture what happened while it's fresh — what was asked, what landed, what didn't — and feed it back into your prep materials. This review loop is the least glamorous feature and the most valuable one.

Setup and good habits

Setup is intentionally boring: install the extension from the Chrome Web Store or download the desktop app, sign in, and spend ten minutes putting your first prep document together. Two habits separate people who get value from people who install-and-forget:

• Prepare per meeting, not generically. A prep sheet titled "Acme senior PM loop — Tuesday" that contains their values and your mapped stories beats a generic notes file every time. The tool is a container; specificity is the content.
• Review weekly. Fifteen minutes each week re-reading your post-meeting notes. Patterns surface — the question types that keep stumping you, the stories that keep working — and your prep gets sharper on its own.

If privacy and data handling matter in your context — they should — read up on private mode and be deliberate about what you store, especially for confidential workplace meetings.

Common mistakes

• Treating it as a live crutch. The tool's value compounds through preparation and review. Depending on any assistant in real time, in settings that expect your own ability, is both risky and against the spirit of the thing.
• Prep-sheet hoarding. Documents you never re-read are clutter. Keep a small set of living documents, not an archive.
• Skipping the practice loop. Owning a mock-interview tool and never doing a mock interview is the most common outcome. Schedule the reps.
• Ignoring meeting rules. Many companies now state explicit policies about AI assistance in interviews and assessments. Know them, respect them, and let your preparation carry you.

FAQ

Extension or desktop app — which should I start with? Start with whichever matches your habits: browser-centric workflows begin with the extension; heavier prep and review sessions belong in the desktop app. Most committed users end up with both.

Is using an AI assistant in interviews okay? Follow the explicit rules of whoever's running the interview — many now prohibit live AI assistance, and you should honor that. The durable advantage comes from what these tools are genuinely for: preparing so well that you don't need help in the room.