# Fleeting turns fake meetings into a browser-based privacy shield
A browser-based project called Fleeting is offering an unusual response to workplace interruptions: realistic but entirely fabricated meeting audio that users can play when they want to appear unavailable. The service presents itself as a form of defence against unwanted demands on a person's time.
Users choose a meeting and start playback, producing the sound of a workplace call in the background. Each recording lasts about 12 minutes and begins at a random position, reducing the chance that repeated sessions will open with the same exchange. The site also lets a user select an exit control, after which the synthetic participants acknowledge the departure before the call ends.
An optional back-to-back setting automatically starts another meeting after one recording finishes. The next selection is intended to fit the time of day. If that setting is disabled, the current meeting loops instead. On desktop computers, the call interface can occupy the full screen. Mobile users can add the website to their home screen and open it in an app-like full-screen mode.
Fleeting extends the idea beyond audio playback by allowing users to place a false appointment on their calendar before someone requests their time. The invitation links back to the site, so the calendar reminder provides a route into the simulated meeting. In practice, that combines visible calendar availability with background sound intended to reinforce the impression that a call is taking place.
The project's disclosure says the conversations are not recordings of real meetings. All voices are synthetic, while the displayed faces are either generated by AI or obtained from licensed stock footage. Participant names are invented, with the exception of creator John Carroll, who may appear as an attendee with his camera disabled.
The site is explicit about its purpose and does not claim to be a conventional productivity, conferencing or privacy tool. Its value proposition is social: it gives a user a plausible reason not to be approached or interrupted. That also makes the service dependent on deception, a consideration for workplaces with policies governing attendance, calendars or representations of working time. The supplied evidence does not describe data collection, pricing, organisational controls or integrations beyond calendar links.
Fleeting arrives amid continued debate about meeting-heavy workplace cultures and the signalling of availability in remote and hybrid jobs. Its approach is deliberately theatrical rather than managerial. Instead of measuring workload or helping colleagues schedule focus time, it manufactures the familiar visual and audible cues of a call. Whether users see that as playful satire or a practical boundary-setting device will likely depend on the norms of their workplace.
