Fellow
Governance-heavy AI meeting notes for Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-person — built for regulated orgs.
Evaluation
What to know
Best for
- Regulated finance, legal, and healthtech meeting capture
- Orgs needing retention, consent, and access governance
- Sales teams that want CRM updates from call context
Not ideal for
- Individuals who only need free unlimited transcripts
- Teams unwilling to administer recording policies
- Pure voice contact-center WFM replacements
Key features
- Bot or botless capture for Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-person
- AI summaries, action items, and Ask Fellow over meeting history
- Org recording policies, retention (incl. zero-day), redaction, audit trails
- CRM, PM, Claude/MCP, and Global Relay-style compliance integrations
- SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA-oriented controls with no training on customer data
Pros
- Compliance depth rare among consumer notetakers
- Botless option reduces meeting-bot friction
- Actionable stack sync beyond a transcript dump
Cons
- Free and Team AI note caps frustrate heavy users
- Enterprise features and seat minimums raise cost of entry
- More admin surface than Otter/Fireflies for casual teams
ToolifyNav verdict
Fellow is the governed meeting-intelligence pick. Otter and Fireflies win casual transcription. Fathom and Granola chase lighter founder workflows. Gong-class conversation intelligence is a heavier sales-platform buy. Shortlist Fellow when privacy, retention, and auditability decide the RFP more than cute summary tone. Pass if you only need a personal bot on free Zoom calls. Map Free/Team caps against weekly meeting volume before annualizing seats, and read the Trust Center if legal will ask about training and BAAs. Confirm calendar integrations and recording retention settings on the live Fellow workspace before a company-wide mandate.
About
About Fellow
Fellow is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and in-person capture, then pushes action items into the rest of the work stack. The brand pitch in 2026 is security and governance first: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA-ready BAAs, no training on customer meeting data, SSO/SCIM, audit logs, and optional zero-day retention for environments that cannot keep raw audio.
Unlike lightweight notetaker bots that only drop a summary into Slack, Fellow markets org-wide recording policies, pause/resume that truly removes off-record segments, password-protected recaps, MNPI-aware workflows for finance, and a Compliance Portal aimed at SEC/FINRA-style recordkeeping. Botless desktop capture avoids an extra participant in the call list — useful when clients freak out about meeting bots.
Product depth includes Ask Fellow chat over meeting history, CRM field suggestions for Salesforce and HubSpot on higher tiers, MCP connectors into Claude and other AI tools, and project integrations such as Jira, Linear, and Asana. Free is intentionally thin (lifetime caps on notes and recordings). Team starts around $7/user/month annual for limited monthly AI notes; Business ~$15 and Enterprise ~$25 unlock unlimited capture plus the compliance and CRM package.
Fellow is overkill for a solo founder who only wants auto-notes. It is under consideration whenever legal, finance, healthtech, or PE/IB teams treat meeting data as regulated records rather than disposable transcripts.
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