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Notes from inside the meeting-AI category

We research this category to build against it, and publish what the research turns up. Every claim here is dated and sourced to the vendor where possible. Where we could not verify something, we say so and leave it out rather than repeating it.

Live meeting AI arrived in one week. All of it is Enterprise-gated. 25 July 2026 · Otter and Zoom both shipped real-time in-call coaching within 48 hours. The interesting question is now the mechanism, not the feature.

Comparisons

Longer-form, maintained side-by-sides against the tools people actually evaluate us against.

Open-source meeting assistants The self-hosted landscape, compared honestly -- including when to pick something else Gong and Backchannel Not a replacement claim: where a live seller-side layer fits under revenue intelligence Plaud alternative Bot-free capture without the hardware or the cloud

Meeting AI that runs on your hardware

Self-hosted, open source, MIT licensed. No bot in the room, no audio in anyone's cloud.

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