Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus

Note-taking has rapidly turned into a captious portion of the productivity space, with galore workplace bundle companies chasing the imagination of having AI automate tasks based connected enactment items created from gathering transcripts. Calendly, known for its scheduling and gathering booking software, is present entering the fray with a note-taking product.

Like others successful the space, Calendly’s note-taker besides joins meetings, records the audio and video, and transcribes it, aft which it tin make a summary, enactment items, and draught follow-up emails. The institution said it is besides investigating a Granola-like diagnostic that uses strategy audio to transcribe meetings.

Calendly is besides readying to merchandise an AI adjunct named Callie that taps the company’s existing gathering and scheduling stack to acceptable up meetings, cheque peoples’ availability, and aboveground discourse from anterior meetings. (Meeting notetaking startup Read AI launched a akin email-based adjunct earlier this year.)

Calendly CEO Tope Awotona said the institution wanted to automate workflows for its apical users: radical successful outward-facing roles similar income and selling whose workday is typically inundated with meetings.

But the contention successful this abstraction is intense. On 1 end, you person gathering note-taking apps similar Granola, Fireflies, Read AI, Otter, and Fathom; connected the other, productivity companies similar Notion, ClickUp, and Wispr person besides added note-taking assistants and features to their suites.

Still, Awotona says there’s large accidental successful automating tasks aft the gathering is transcribed.

“There’s a litany of notetakers, and each of them bash a large occupation of signaling and transcribing notes. But a batch of enactment happens aft the meetings. And we deliberation that truly that’s wherever the accidental for our note-takers to beryllium efficient,” helium said.

Given that immoderate companies successful this space, similar Otter and Granola, are facing allegations of violating privacy, Awotona said Calendly’ note-taker volition pass users that their gathering is being recorded. The signaling adjunct sends a connection successful the chat to pass everyone of its beingness and activity, and immoderate idiosyncratic tin inquire the app to permission the conversation. It tin adjacent pass radical earlier the gathering starts that the telephone volition beryllium recorded, acknowledgment to its integration with Calendly’s scheduling system.