Fathom
A practical AI tool for productivity workflows
Fathom helps professionals improve productivity workflows with AI-assisted drafting, automation, analysis, or production features.
Fellow records, transcribes, summarizes, and searches meetings while adding agendas, action items, consent capture, retention controls, integrations, and organization-wide governance
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The decision
Fellow is strongest when a company wants one governed meeting-intelligence layer rather than a patchwork of personal note takers. Its value depends less on transcript volume than on decision capture, action follow-through, search precision, and policy consistency. Sensitive teams should verify consent, access, retention, redaction, model-provider, and deletion behavior before standardizing.
Best for
Teams standardizing meeting capture across Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-person conversations; Organizations that need consent, retention, redaction, and access controls.
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Meetings that should not be recorded or summarized; Teams expecting transcripts to be authoritative records
Evidence
Editorial research pending · 8.2/10
Pricing checked
See current vendor pricing · Sep 23, 2026
Free access is available, with limits.
Yes. The Free plan includes five AI notes and five recordings per user for the lifetime of the plan, plus summaries, transcription, action items, uploads, and core meeting integrations.
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Fellow records, transcribes, summarizes, and searches meetings while adding agendas, action items, consent capture, retention controls, integrations, and organization-wide governance.
Fellow is strongest when a company wants one governed meeting-intelligence layer rather than a patchwork of personal note takers. Its value depends less on transcript volume than on decision capture, action follow-through, search precision, and policy consistency. Sensitive teams should verify consent, access, retention, redaction, model-provider, and deletion behavior before standardizing.
Run 20 representative remote, hybrid, multilingual, noisy, and sensitive meetings with documented consent. Compare transcripts and summaries against human notes; measure speaker attribution, decision recall, action-owner accuracy, search precision, redaction, access leakage, retention enforcement, follow-through, review time, and cost per useful meeting record.
Personal Recommendation
Fellow is strongest when a company wants one governed meeting-intelligence layer rather than a patchwork of personal note takers. Its value depends less on transcript volume than on decision capture, action follow-through, search precision, and policy consistency. Sensitive teams should verify consent, access, retention, redaction, model-provider, and deletion behavior before standardizing.
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Fellow is strongest when a company wants one governed meeting-intelligence layer rather than a patchwork of personal note takers. Its value depends less on transcript volume than on decision capture, action follow-through, search precision, and policy consistency. Sensitive teams should verify consent, access, retention, redaction, model-provider, and deletion behavior before standardizing.
Overall Score
Editorial Review Framework
Overall Score
8.2
Ease of Use
8.4
AI Quality
8.2
Features
8.4
Speed
8.0
Integrations
8.2
Value for Money
8.0
Customer Support
7.8
Learning Curve
8.0
Recommended Because…
Fellow is strongest when a company wants one governed meeting-intelligence layer rather than a patchwork of personal note takers. Its value depends less on transcript volume than on decision capture, action follow-through, search precision, and policy consistency. Sensitive teams should verify consent, access, retention, redaction, model-provider, and deletion behavior before standardizing.
Scores use a 0-10 editorial scale: 9–10 exceptional, 8–8.9 strong, 7–7.9 capable with material tradeoffs, 6–6.9 limited fit, and below 6 not recommended. Scores publish only when a documented evaluation supports them.
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Confirm the tool meets every must-have workflow and stakeholder requirement.
Review starting point: Teams standardizing meeting capture across Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-person conversations; Organizations that need consent, retention, redaction, and access controls; Managers turning decisions into accountable follow-up
Run the same representative work you would use in production; do not score a polished demo.
Review starting point: Complete three to five representative tasks with known acceptable outcomes and compare them with your current process.
Calculate the effective cost per accepted result, including usage, review, corrections, and required add-ons.
Review starting point: Fellow lists Free at $0, Team at $7 per user monthly on annual billing or $11 monthly, Business at $15 annually or $23 monthly, and custom Enterprise pricing. Recording allowances, upload limits, CRM connections, advanced permissions, retention, SSO, and workspace analytics vary by tier.
Define an acceptance threshold, test known answers and edge cases, and record every correction.
Review starting point: Editorial quality signals: features 4.2/5; AI quality 4.1/5. Validate these signals in your own work.
Verify what data enters the product, who can access it, how long it is retained, and whether it trains models.
Review starting point: Use approved low-risk data first. Check roles, consent, deletion, subprocessors, model-training settings, and the contract—not only the marketing page.
Test the real handoffs, permissions, failure states, and export path your team depends on.
Review starting point: Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot
Record training, governance, reliability, accessibility, ownership, and change-management risks before rollout.
Review starting point: Meetings that should not be recorded or summarized; Teams expecting transcripts to be authoritative records; Pricing, limits, and product behavior can change
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Evaluation
Research-based
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Reviewed
2026-09-23
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Editorial freshness
Pricing and material product claims were checked September 23, 2026.
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Fellow records, transcribes, summarizes, and searches meetings while adding agendas, action items, consent capture, retention controls, integrations, and organization-wide governance.
Fellow lists Free at $0, Team at $7 per user monthly on annual billing or $11 monthly, Business at $15 annually or $23 monthly, and custom Enterprise pricing. Recording allowances, upload limits, CRM connections, advanced permissions, retention, SSO, and workspace analytics vary by tier.
Teams standardizing meeting capture across Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-person conversations, Organizations that need consent, retention, redaction, and access controls, Managers turning decisions into accountable follow-up.
Run 20 representative remote, hybrid, multilingual, noisy, and sensitive meetings with documented consent. Compare transcripts and summaries against human notes; measure speaker attribution, decision recall, action-owner accuracy, search precision, redaction, access leakage, retention enforcement, follow-through, review time, and cost per useful meeting record.
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