Fireflies.ai

You've sat through the meeting, nodded along, and then realized nobody wrote down who agreed to do what. A week later someone asks what the client said about pricing, and the only record is three people's fuzzy memories. That's the problem Fireflies.ai goes after: conversations that vanish the moment the call ends, and the hours lost rebuilding them from scratch.

The fix is a bot named Fred. You invite [email protected] to a live call, or let it auto-join your calendar meetings on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, and it records, transcribes and summarizes. Fireflies claims 95% transcription accuracy across 100+ languages, with speaker recognition and auto-language detection. After the call you get an overview, bullet points, action items and custom notes, plus a searchable archive that lets you find a specific sentence and timestamp from a call months ago. AskFred answers questions about past meetings, and the newer Live Assist offers suggestions and coaching while the call is still running. It also covers the places a bot can't sit in: there's a Chrome extension for Google Meet, desktop and mobile apps for in-person conversations, dialer support for Aircall and RingCentral, file uploads (MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A) and an API.

Where it goes beyond a plain notetaker is the output layer. The site advertises 200+ AI Skills for things like drafting follow-up emails or scoring candidates, CRM auto-fill, task creation in project management tools, ATS pushes to Greenhouse and Lever, Slack alerts, and an MCP server that pipes meeting data into Claude, ChatGPT and Devin. Security claims are serious too: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, and a zero data retention policy stating your data isn't used for AI training. The free tier is a real starting point, and paid plans begin at $10 per seat per month billed annually. The catch is that several features you'll actually want, like video recording, downloads and multi-language mode, sit behind paid tiers.