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Meeting notetakers compared

A summary of what each vendor's own public documents say on the headline questions. Click a vendor for more.

QuestionFathomFireflies.aiGranolaOtter.aiRead AItl;dv
AI training on identifiable customer content: defaultNo
Quote“We do not authorize third parties to use your personal information or User Content to train their artificial intelligence models. We may use and create de-identified data generated from your User Content to train, customize or improve our in-house artificial intelligence models in order to improve our Service.”
No
Quote“Notwithstanding the breadth of the license granted above, Fireflies: (i) will exercise its rights solely in connection with providing the Services to you and authorized users in your user group; and (ii) will not use your User Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models. You acknowledge and agree, however, that Fireflies may derive usage, statistical, and other data from your User Content and use such derived data for its internal business purposes, including analyzing and improving the Services.”
No
Quote“We use de-identified, aggregated data, not Personal Data, for our AI model training.”
No
Quote“Otter uses a proprietary method to de-identify user data before training our models so that an individual user cannot be identified.”
No by default; training is opt-in
Quote“AI training is opt-in | Contributing to model improvement is off by default. You decide - and can change your mind any time. | subject to the terms and limitations described in our Privacy Policy and any applicable opt-in or opt-out mechanisms, Read AI may use your User Content to train, develop, and improve its artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies”
No
Quote“does not use Customer Content, including meeting recordings, transcripts, notes, files, or other data processed through the Services, to train, fine-tune, or improve foundation models”
Product-improvement use of contentYes
Quote“We use the information we collect: To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance our Service;”
Yes
Quote“Fireflies may derive usage, statistical, and other data from your User Content and use such derived data for its internal business purposes, including analyzing and improving the Services.”
Yes
Quote“Where the Services include artificial intelligence or machine learning functionality, Granola may Process Customer Personal Data as necessary to provide, maintain, secure, support, and improve such functionality in accordance with Customer’s documented instructions, the Agreement, and this DPA.”
Yes under the Privacy Policy; the Enterprise Software Services Agreement limits Customer Content to providing the Platform, with Usage Data usable only in de-identified, aggregated form
Quote“Improve and monitor the Services, including training our proprietary AI technology on de-identified audio recordings and on transcriptions (which may contain Personal Information) | Customer authorizes Otter and its service providers to use Customer Content for the sole purpose of providing the Otter Platform and performing the activities contemplated by this Agreement (such as maintaining, securing, debugging, and otherwise performing quality control for the Otter Platform). | Otter will be free (during and after the Order Term) to use Usage Data in de-identified and aggregated form to maintain, improve, and enhance Otter’s products or services.”
—No for Customer Content, which is processed solely to provide the requested functionality; usage and log data are used for product analysis and improvement
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Terms change noticeNot statedEffective on posting
Quote“Unless we say otherwise in our notice, the amended Terms will be effective immediately, and your continued use of our Services after we provide you notice will confirm your acceptance of the changes.”
Not statedNot statedEffective on posting
Quote“We will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy, if we make any changes. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide you with additional notice”
Effective on posting
Quote“If you use the Services in any way after a change to the Terms is effective, that means you agree to all of the changes.”
AI status—AI-native
Quote“Fireflies.ai is an autonomous AI meeting teammate that helps you unlock the value buried inside your conversations by transcribing, summarizing, and analyzing meetings.”
AI-native
Quote“Granola, Inc. and its affiliated companies, including Granola Labs Ltd., (“Granola”) provide an AI-powered notetaking assistant”
——AI features
Quote“For the purpose of providing the requested AI-powered features, in accordance with applicable data protection laws and the safeguards described in this Privacy Policy, limited portions of meeting transcripts may be processed”

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