Start a meeting about a contact, account, or deal

Many records carry a Start meeting button (the little video-camera icon in the header) — on a Contact, an Account, or an Opportunity. It launches a Stage meeting tied to that record, so you don't have to create a meeting and then go find who it's about.

What "bound to the record" gets you:
• It's logged on that record's timeline the moment you start it ("Started a Stage meeting" with the join link), and the meeting's recap and recording file back there too — so the whole history lives where you'd look for it.
• In-call tools (Wally, Commerce) know what the meeting is about.
• The meeting opens in its own tab — the record page you were on stays put.

Auto-invite the contact:
• On a Contact, starting the meeting automatically invites that contact with the join link — there's no separate "send invite" step. It emails them if they have an email on file, and texts them an SMS with the link if they have a phone number on file (both, when you have both). If the contact has neither, the meeting still starts; it just skips the invite.
• The invite is best-effort: the meeting always opens even if a message can't be sent.

On your personal contacts too:
On the personal contacts page (/me/contacts), open a contact and use Start meeting. That starts a personal (you-owned) meeting and still invites the contact by email and/or text — handy for a quick call with someone in your own address book rather than an org record.