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AI meeting assistants: what they are and who makes them
Fathom, Fireflies.ai, Otter.ai and 6 more, sorted into types, with the company behind each and where it is based.
Types of AI meeting assistants
Bot-joins-the-call recorders
These tools send a participant to your Zoom, Meet or Teams call, which records on the vendor's servers even if your laptop is closed. Otter, Fireflies, Read AI and Avoma work this way. The cost is visibility: everyone sees the bot, and some hosts block it.
On-device, bot-free note takers
These capture the audio your computer plays and picks up, so nobody else sees a participant join. Granola is built entirely this way, and Fathom and Krisp offer it as an option. The trade-off is that the app must be open on your own machine.
Sales and revenue meeting tools
Avoma and the higher tiers of Fathom, Fireflies and tl;dv add call scoring, deal views and two-way CRM field updates. They suit teams that review customer calls and coach reps, and they cost noticeably more per seat than a plain note taker.
Meeting-management suites
Fellow wraps the notes inside agendas, shared action items and recurring one-on-one templates. It suits managers who run the same meetings every week and want the notes attached to the plan, rather than sitting in a standalone recording archive nobody reopens.
Facts at a glance
| Tool | Publisher | Based in | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fathom | Fathom Video | United States | Free tier + API |
| Fireflies.ai | Fireflies.ai Corp | United States | Free tier + API |
| Otter.ai | Otter.ai, Inc. | United States | Free tier + API |
| Granola | Granola | United Kingdom | Free tier + API |
| Read AI | Read AI | United States | Free tier + API |
| tl;dv | Tldx Solutions GmbH | Germany | Free tier + API |
| Fellow | Fellow | Canada | Free tier + API |
| Avoma | Avoma, Inc. | United States | Trial + API |
| Krisp | Krisp Technologies | United States | Trial + API |
