Introducing AI Knittakers: Authentic Icelandic knitters. Real Icelanders who attend online meetings in your place, listen in and knit everything you need to know into a one-word summary.

From 29 October to 20 November, AI Knittakers will put their needles to work to solve a very modern problem; endless online meetings giving people an hour back in their working day.

Joining live on camera from farmhouse kitchens, harbour towns, waterfalls and by geothermal pools across Iceland, each Knittaker will bring a glimpse of their surroundings and daily life directly into the meeting, offering a small window onto what life can look like when not every hour is given over to another meeting.

Where an AI notetaker captures what is said, an AI Knittaker will read the room, notice the loaded pauses, reactions, ideas and disagreements before choosing the meeting’s one-word summary and knit it in Icelandic wool.

That final summary might be PIVOT, ALIGN, RESET or UNMUTE. Perhaps BLA BLA or HUH? Or, when the meeting really calls for it, WTF?

When the call ends, the person who booked the service receives a photograph of their Knittaker holding the finished word, together with the Knittaker’s name, their story and the place in Iceland they joined from. Meeting organisers in the US and Europe can also opt to have the original hand-knitted summary, made in Icelandic wool and posted to them.