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title: "Exclusions"
description: "Exclude rules let an admin keep the Meeting Assistant out of named meetings, recurring events or whole calendars company-wide."
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# Exclusions

## What exclude rules do

![The Exclude Meetings section of Global Settings, with one rule matching attendee emails that contain @acme.com and a live count of the meetings it would exclude](/help/media/meeting-assistant/meeting-assistant-exclusions.jpg)

Exclude rules let an admin stop the Speak AI Meeting Assistant from joining specific meetings across the whole company. This is useful when you never want the assistant to join a particular organization's calls, or any meeting a certain person schedules.

## Who can set them

Exclude rules are a company-wide setting, so they are managed by team admins who have the **Global Settings** permission. They live in **Assistant Preferences**, on the **Global Settings** tab, under **Exclude Meetings**.

## Company-wide rules versus your own

**Assistant Preferences** has two places that keep the assistant out of a meeting, and they do different jobs:

- **Global Settings** > **Exclude Meetings** applies across your whole company. It needs the **Global Settings** permission.
- **Exclude Join Conditions** applies to your own assistant only. It matches on **Meeting titles** or **Attendees Emails**, and it needs the **Exclude Meetings** permission.

Use Global Settings when nobody at your company should record a given organization. Use Exclude Join Conditions when it is only your own calendar you want to filter.

## Add an exclude rule

1. Open **Assistant Preferences** on the Meeting Assistant page and select **Global Settings**.
1. Find the **Exclude Meetings** section and select **Add rule**.
1. Choose what the rule matches on from the first dropdown:
- **Attendee email contains** - matches part of an address, so `@acme.com` catches everyone at that company
- **Attendee email is** - matches one exact address, for example `scheduling@acme.com`
- **Meeting link contains** - matches part of a meeting URL, for example `speakai.zoom.us`
1. Enter the value to match. As you type, a live preview shows how many upcoming meetings the rule would exclude, or **No upcoming meetings match** if it catches nothing.
1. Each rule has its own toggle, so you can turn a rule on or off without deleting it. The **X** beside a rule removes it.
1. Select **Save**.

## A note on Google Meet links

Meeting-link rules work well for Zoom. Google Meet links do not identify an organization, so a Google Meet link would only match a single meeting. To exclude a whole company on Google Meet, use an attendee email or email domain rule instead.

## See what was excluded

The **Excluded** tab lists the meetings the assistant skipped and the reason each one was excluded, so you can confirm your rules are doing what you expect.

## If a meeting still gets recorded

Message us on live chat in the app or email [success@speakai.co](mailto:success@speakai.co).

Evaluating Speak AI for a team? [Book a demo and see your own recordings analyzed](https://calendly.com/speak-ai/demo?utm_source=docs&utm_campaign=book-demo).

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Related: [Meeting Assistant](/help/meeting-assistant/) · [Auto-join](/help/meeting-assistant/auto-join/)

Source: https://docs.speakai.co/help/meeting-assistant/exclusions/index.mdx