Meetings generate a surprising amount of information that gets lost afterward — decisions, action items, technical details, and follow-ups.
AI meeting assistants can help by automatically turning conversations into transcripts, summaries, action items, and searchable notes.
But the tools are not identical.
I compared Fathom, Otter, Fireflies, and tl;dv with a focus on what matters to small businesses and lean teams:
Free-plan limitations
Transcription capabilities
AI summaries and meeting notes
Action-item extraction
Integrations and workflow potential
Ease of use
Overall value for small teams
The goal isn't simply to find the tool with the most features. It's to find the one that fits your actual workflow without adding another complicated system to manage.
Read the full comparison:
