Comparing AI meeting recorders
Autessa Meeting Recorder as a Otter.ai alternative
Otter.ai is one of the best-known AI meeting assistants, with a notetaker, meeting agents, custom templates and an MCP server that searches and fetches transcripts. Autessa Meeting Recorder keeps the recording on every meeting, gives each team a named bot on your own address, and is built from parts you can open and change.
Big Picture
Acme wants a May pilot so procurement can sign this quarter. Main open item is the mobile rollout for field teams.
Highlights
- Pilot start agreed for May.
- Security review is the only blocker to signature.
Action Items by Person
Goal for Next Call
Confirm pilot scope and the mobile rollout plan.
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Where Autessa wins
The recording, on every meeting
Every bot keeps the video or audio with the transcript and summary, for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams alike.
Your bot, under your name
Each bot has its own email and display name, and can run on your own subdomain or a Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 mailbox.
Sharing you can audit
Personal, expiring links can require a one-time code, count every open, and be revoked all at once.
Change the pipeline itself
Otter gives you templates. Here you can rewrite the prompt per bot, then ask Autobot to add a step after every meeting or change any tool, down to the code.
Agents that send the bot
Otter’s MCP searches and fetches transcripts. Through the Autessa MCP an agent can also read your meeting rows and send a bot to a meeting.
Getting started from Otter.ai
Create a bot, link the same Google or Outlook calendars, and pick an auto-record mode per calendar. Recordings you want to keep can be uploaded as files so they get an Autessa transcript and summary.
FAQ
Questions about switching from Otter.ai
Is Autessa Meeting Recorder an Otter alternative?
Yes. It records Zoom, Google Meet and Teams meetings, transcribes them, writes AI summaries with action items by person, emails recaps and shares recordings through personal, expiring links.
Can I bring existing recordings?
Yes. Upload video or audio files and they get a transcript and summary like any recorded meeting.
How far can I customize Meeting Recorder?
As far as you like. Rewrite the summary prompt per bot, tune retention and calendars, and ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, to add a step after every meeting or change any tool, screen or field. Your developers can edit the code directly.
Can AI agents use my meetings?
Yes. Through the Autessa MCP, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent can read your meetings, transcripts and summaries as data, and the Meeting Bot Dispatch tool lets an agent send a bot to a meeting.
Is Autessa Meeting Recorder free?
Yes. It is free with every Autessa account, for unlimited users, with no per-seat fees. You pay only for AI tasks.
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100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Meeting Recorder fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
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