An approach is provided for a meeting assist process to receive, over one or more communications networks, a meeting request for meeting assistance, the request including meeting background information, the meeting assist process instantiating an information gathering module to automatically parse the background information to form one or more queries for collecting data across a plurality of data sources, query a plurality of data sources to gather information, and distribute the gathered information automatically to predetermined locations. The meeting assist process further instantiates a meeting artificial intelligence module to monitor the meeting and apply artificial intelligence to automatically detect and track meeting progress, and automatically instantiates a summarization artificial intelligence module upon the meeting ending to generate a meeting analysis including at least a post-meeting summary and sentiment analysis, and automatically distributes the meeting analysis to a shared repository database or a predetermined email list.