We’re on a mission to kill broken meetings.
When meetings are brilliant, great things happen. We’re transforming the world’s meetings into a force for accomplishing great work.
Contio
[kohn-tee-oh] noun.
From Latin "conventio" meaning "gathering."
A meeting, gathering or assembly in the Roman Empire where transformative ideas were discussed.
How it all began.
The idea for MeetingOS was born at the end of a very long day for our founder back in 2018. After working his way through eight back-to-back-to-back meetings, he said “how in the world do we spend so much time in meetings, and there’s no operating system to get them organized?”
Fast-forward to 2025, and Contio was founded to build the AI operating system for meetings: your brilliant meeting strategist, your superhuman memory, and your hyper-intelligent Chief of Staff who has you prepped, organized, and following up better than the President.
Meetings are the bane of our existence.
U.S. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on meetings. Employees in American companies spend more than a third of their time in meetings. There are 48 million meetings per day in North America alone, and 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.¹
AI notetakers have made the problem even worse — seven robots join the call, and do nothing to make the meeting better; they just record the misery, and send us emails about it.
1. “How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings,” Harvard Business Review, February 2018
Our Purpose
There’s a secret we know is true: meetings can actually be amazing. They can be the places where great insights get surfaced, innovations are born, and our path forward becomes clear.
Contio exists to kill the epidemic of broken meetings, and turn every meeting into a brilliant one.
Our Founder
Aaron Klein founded Contio in 2025, and built our founding team around the principles of great product craftsmanship. Prior to Contio, he was the founding CEO of Riskalyze, which started in his basement in 2011.
He led the company through 42 consecutive quarters of growth, scaling to serve tens of thousands of financial advisors, and twice being named one of the world’s 10 most innovative companies in finance by Fast Company Magazine.
Riskalyze was rebranded as Nitrogen after Hg Capital became its majority owner in 2021. He passed the baton to his successor in 2023, and continues to serve on the firm’s Board of Directors.
Aaron is married to Cacey Klein, and they are parents to an amazing Korean-Ethiopian-American family that consists of Spencer, Emma and Teddy. Together, they cofounded Hope Takes Root, an initiative to use capitalism to change the future for orphans and at-risk kids in Ethiopia. They reside in Eagle, Idaho, and absolutely love it.
Built with ♥️ in Boise, Idaho
At Contio, we’re building a team of elite business athletes—fast, focused, and obsessed with craft. Innovation is our sport, and our home court is our headquarters in the Boise, Idaho area.
But our true north is the customer. We are laser focused on the people we serve—listening, learning, and building solutions that help them do the best work of their lives, and turn every meeting into a brilliant one.
Our Values
We stand for a unique set of core principles that define how we work and serve our customers.