Otter

Capture a meeting and its next steps

Otter is an AI notetaking and meeting-knowledge platform. Its homepage describes capturing conversations and producing transcripts and meeting summaries with decisions, action items and insights. The intended result is a record that a person or team can search and use after the call.

The publisher describes several capture routes. A meeting agent can join scheduled calls, while a desktop app can record conversations from a Mac or Windows computer without a bot joining. Mobile and Chrome capture are also listed. Choose the route that fits the meeting, participants and organization's recording rules.

Search the conversation after the call

Otter AI Chat searches across meetings and connected applications to answer questions and help prepare follow-ups, reports or other content. A user can consult the meeting record instead of relying on memory of a decision or commitment. Generated answers should still be checked against the underlying conversation before they become a customer message or project requirement.

Channels organize meetings by team, topic or project. The homepage presents a shared place for recordings and collaboration, alongside integrations that move notes or action items into other tools. This can suit a recurring team meeting where several people need to revisit context.

Notion AI also documents meeting transcription and summaries through its beta meeting-notes feature. The workflow distinction is where that information sits: Otter organizes captured conversations in Channels, while Notion brings meeting notes into the workspace that holds its pages and databases.

Connect notes to the work

The publisher lists connections with meeting platforms, calendars, documents, project tools and CRMs. Its examples include scheduling an agent through Google Calendar, syncing notes to Google Docs and pushing sales insights into HubSpot or Salesforce. Check the actual integration requirements for the workspace before depending on an automated update.

Otter also describes an MCP server for making meeting knowledge accessible through other AI chat tools. That is a connection to existing meeting content, distinct from the separate recruiting or SDR agent offerings linked on the site. A general meeting-note entry should not imply access to every agent product.

Review allowances and recording requirements

The homepage offers Basic access for free and separate Business and Enterprise options. Basic's unlimited-meetings wording does not establish unlimited transcription minutes or file imports. Business lists its own monthly transcription and per-conversation limits, along with additional collaboration features.

Select the plan against the length and frequency of calls, import needs and required administration. Confirm recording permissions and handling of confidential material before capturing a conversation. The homepage alone does not establish a blanket consent, retention or privacy guarantee for every setting.

The publisher includes testimonials about transcription quality and time saved. This overview did not record a meeting or measure accuracy, and those promotional results should not be treated as an outcome guaranteed for another team.