Insights
Trends, analysis, and what is shifting in the meeting tool ecosystem.
What a Meeting-Bot Hour Really Costs: Seven APIs Priced Like for Like
Skribby, Recall.ai, MeetingBaaS, MeetStream, Nylas, Attendee and Vexa priced on the same job under four usage profiles, with a dated change log and a check of the rival prices vendors quote.
Recall.ai, Up Close: An Hour With the Company Behind the Meeting Bots
A morning at Recall.ai with cofounder Amanda Zhu: what $0.50 an hour buys, the $0.25 startup program, who builds on it, and where the claims wobble.
Granola Review: The AI Notetaker That Bets You Still Take Notes
An honest review of Granola, the bot-free AI notepad that enhances your own meeting notes. What it does well, where it falls short, pricing, and who should switch.
Clari Copilot Pricing: What the Wingman Rebrand Actually Costs
Wingman became Clari Copilot, and after the Clari and Salesloft merger it sells as Salesloft Conversation Intelligence. What buyers report paying, and the alternatives.
Cisco Webex in 2026: Who Should Still Use It (And Who Should Leave)
Webex holds 5-9% of the video conferencing market while Zoom and Teams split the rest. For a specific type of buyer, that is exactly the right choice.
MeetingBaaS Pricing Breakdown: What You Will Actually Pay in 2026
MeetingBaaS uses tokens, subscriptions, and add-ons. We did the math, then compared it against Recall.ai, Skribby, Nylas, and self-hosting.
The AI Notetaker Price War: Who Blinks First
Fathom is free. tl;dv undercuts Fireflies. Otter is losing share. Map the pricing race across AI notetakers and where this ends.
Microsoft Teams Now Holds Third-Party Recording Bots in the Lobby
Teams detects external meeting bots and sends them to the lobby for organizer approval by default. An optional auto-block policy is off by default.
Recording Without Bots: The Post-Bot Era Begins
Teams holds bots in the lobby. Zoom launched RTMS. Google gated Meet joins. Fathom added bot-free capture. The architecture of meeting recording is changing.
Your Meeting Data Is the Next AI Training Goldmine
Every AI notetaker has thousands of hours of your conversations. Who owns that data, who is training on it, and what the privacy policies actually say.
The Gong Tax: What Revenue Intelligence Actually Costs at Scale
Break down the real cost of Gong for a 50-person sales team. License fees are just the start.
Voice AI Agents in Meetings: Hype Check
Vapi, Retell, Bland, Synthflow and ElevenLabs have raised close to $1 billion combined. What their own documentation says voice agents can do in meetings.
Meeting Recording Laws by State: The Compliance Map Nobody Cares About (But Should)
One-party or two-party consent? State by state, what the law says about recording meetings.
The Hidden Cost of Free Notetakers
Fathom, Otter Free, and tl;dv Free cost nothing. But what do they do with your data? We read the privacy policies.
Meeting Overload: What the Research Says Actually Cuts Meeting Time
Microsoft measured a 153% rise in weekly meetings for Teams users. What the research and public experiments say about reducing meeting load.
Why Mid-Market Teams Are Leaving Gong
With quote-only seats that third-party data puts at $100-200 per user per month plus a platform fee, the math gets hard for mid-market teams.
The Async Video Market Is Consolidating. Here Is Who Survives.
Loom set the category. Atlassian bought it. Our analysis of why distribution, not features, will decide which async video tools last.