The 3 Ways Neat Is Revolutionizing AI-Powered Video Tech
Tormod Ree, Dec 15, 2025
Welcome to a new era of meeting experiences driven by real-time AI, precision engineering, and a flexible ecosystem built for today and what comes next.
At Neat, we’ve always believed that technology should bring people closer together—not get in their way. From day one, our mission has been to make video collaboration beautifully simple, enabling teams everywhere to effortlessly meet, create, and connect.
As work transforms and AI reshapes how people collaborate, organizations face a big question: Which tools will carry them into the next five years—and beyond? Our answer is clear: with Neat, you’re always ready for what’s next. That’s because we’ve purposefully built Neat on three key pillars:
Simple. Intelligent. Open.
The problems holding collaboration back
Across thousands of spaces—from global huddle rooms to large boardrooms—we’ve consistently seen three challenges that frustrate teams and limit productivity.
Complexity that slows you down: Many traditional systems are painfully complex. They require long cable runs, racks of peripherals, convoluted schematics, and setup cycles that can stretch from hours to days. In larger spaces, this complexity becomes overwhelming—and expensive.
Disparity between in-room and remote participants: Hybrid meetings still break down at the basics. People often can’t see or hear each other clearly, remote participants feel peripheral, and in-room teams wrestle with settings, presets, and wires. It should be effortless. It rarely is.
Single-purpose, locked-down devices: Most solutions do only one thing. They run video meetings on a single platform. Yet modern meeting spaces should seamlessly host workshops, brainstorming sessions, training sessions, hybrid presentations, and more. Collaboration tools should adapt, not impose rigid limits.
Neat solves these problems with a fundamentally different approach.
Simple: technology that adapts to people
Simplicity isn’t a feature for us—it’s a philosophy. It guides every product, component, and experience we design.
Purposefully simple, distributed, and versatile: Neat’s pioneering portfolio spans elegant, powerful bar and board form factors, with intelligent companion devices that scale seamlessly from small rooms to large, complex spaces. Our architecture is distributed, meaning every device adds capabilities without adding complexity.
Precision-engineered for modern meeting spaces: We carefully design every detail—from chipsets powering distributed AI to lenses, sensors, microphones, and mounts—with intention. Nothing is accidental. Take the 140° camera configuration on Neat Board 32, for example: we didn’t randomly choose it off the shelf—we sourced, tested, simulated, and optimized it to deliver precisely the coverage required for real-world interactions.
One device, many scenarios: Instead of creating new hardware for every use case, Neat devices adapt—whether you’re co-creating with a team, presenting to a hybrid audience, or enabling remote participants to join a lively in-room discussion. Achieving true simplicity requires understanding the room, not just the device. That’s why our distributed architecture is so efficient and effective.
Intelligent: AI that understands rooms and meetings
To make collaboration truly seamless, systems must adapt in real time—just like a skilled camera operator, audio engineer, or meeting facilitator would. This scenario is where Neat excels.
Full-coverage sensing and distributed compute: Neat devices are equipped with advanced sensors and powerful onboard computing that run real-time AI and machine learning. This enables:
- Full-room awareness with no blind spots
- Dynamic camera switching and framing
- Automatic audio optimization
- Adaptive layouts and meeting views
We don’t rely on manual adjustments or presets. Expecting users to manage camera controls is fundamentally flawed—and often creates unnecessary friction in the meeting experience.
An AI operator for every room: Our system acts like an always-on AI operator—sensing interactions, understanding where conversations are happening, and instantly adapting the experience. If someone stands up, moves around, turns away from the primary device, or shifts the discussion across the table, Neat understands and adjusts. This ability is unique in video conferencing today.
The power of a distributed architecture: Neat’s distributed design places AI, sensors, and compute throughout the space—and then unifies everything over the network. This enables:
- Full sensor coverage
- Sufficient, scalable compute
- Instant coordination across devices
- Unified intelligence, not siloed devices
It’s a bit like movie production—except we do it all in real time with no reshoots. (Relax, Spielberg—we’ve got this!) And what you’re seeing today is only the beginning. With the architecture now firmly in place, the pace of innovation is set to accelerate dramatically.
Open: ready for every platform, app, and AI advancement
The video collaboration landscape is changing faster than ever, driven by breakthroughs in AI. While no one can predict precisely how people will work five years from now, organizations need solutions that won’t lock them into the past.
That’s why Neat supports all major meeting platforms—Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom—with fully native experiences, along with their AI tools like Copilot, Zoom AI Companion, Gemini, and more. If you decide to switch platforms tomorrow, you can—no downtime, device swap, or lock-in.
Bring your own AI and applications: Neat Open unlocks a whole new world of hybrid collaboration:
- Run BYOD meetings with full Neat audio and video.
- Access apps from our Neat App Hub.
- Capture AI-powered meeting summaries.
- Let multiple participants pair and share content easily.
- Bring your own AI tools and workflows into shared spaces.
This is the future of flexible collaboration.
Neat Pulse—the control center for the AI era: Neat Pulse is our cloud-native management platform, enabling:
- Scalable, secure device management.
- Enterprise-grade visibility.
- APIs and webhooks for deep automation.
- Seamless integration with broader IT ecosystems.
We’ve built Neat Pulse to support AI-driven workflows, not bolt them on. As AI agents become part of device management, Neat Pulse provides the data, control, and flexibility you need.
A unique position in the industry: Most hardware manufacturers struggle to bridge room intelligence with cloud innovation. Neat does both—beautifully. Our architecture learns from every meeting, in every room, continuously improving experiences over time. The more the room teaches us, the better collaboration becomes.
Designed for people, powered by AI
Simple by nature. Intelligent by design. Open by choice. These pillars aren’t mere marketing slogans—they’re the foundation of our products, platform, and pace of innovation:
- Simple enough to deploy anywhere.
- Intelligent enough to adapt to every room and interaction.
- Open enough to evolve with the entire AI landscape.
As the rate of change accelerates into 2026 and beyond, video collaboration is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in decades. Neat keeps your meeting spaces future-ready—delivering the simplicity, flexibility, and intelligence to adapt as new AI capabilities emerge. And when technology adapts to people—not the other way around—your teams can focus on what truly matters: doing their best work, together.
Neat: Intelligence at work. Human at heart.
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