Fireflies

Fireflies AI Meeting Notetaker Transcription

The meeting ends. Someone asks "so what did we decide?" Silence. Everyone took partial notes, nobody captured it all. Fireflies exists so this never happens again — an AI notetaker that joins your video calls automatically, records everything, transcribes it in 100+ languages, and hands you summaries, action items, and searchable transcripts before you've left your chair.

What Is Fireflies?

Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that captures your video calls across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and more. Connect your calendar, and its notetaker (fred@fireflies.ai) auto-joins scheduled meetings as a visible participant — recording, transcribing with speaker labels, and generating AI summaries organized by topics, decisions, and action items.

Beyond transcription, Fireflies extends into your workflow: AskFred answers natural-language questions across all your meetings ("what did the client say about pricing?"), 200+ AI Skills automate follow-ups and CRM updates, and 100+ integrations push notes into Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, and Notion. A desktop app captures system audio without a visible bot for sensitive calls.

Key Features

1. Auto-Joining Notetaker

Connects to your calendar and joins Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls automatically — no manual setup per meeting.

2. 100+ Language Transcription

99% English accuracy, 95% for other languages, with automatic language detection and speaker identification.

3. AI Summaries and Action Items

Every call gets structured notes: key topics, decisions made, and extracted tasks assigned to speakers.

4. AskFred AI Assistant

Ask questions in plain language across your entire meeting history and get answers with timestamps.

5. 200+ AI Skills

Prebuilt automations for sales, recruiting, and support — follow-up emails, CRM entry, deal risk flags.

6. 100+ Integrations

Push transcripts and action items directly into Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, Notion, and more.

7. Bot-Free Desktop Capture

Record system audio on Mac/Windows without a visible participant — for calls where a bot can't join.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does everyone see the notetaker join?

By default, yes — it joins as a visible "Fireflies.ai Notetaker" participant, which keeps recording transparent.

Can it record without joining as a bot?

Yes, the desktop app captures system audio directly without sending a participant into the call.

How accurate is the transcription?

99% for English, around 95% for other languages, across 100+ supported languages.

What happens after the meeting?

You get a transcript, AI summary, and action items in your dashboard, plus an automatic recap email.

Does it integrate with my CRM?

Yes — Salesforce, HubSpot, and 100+ other tools receive automatic updates from call content.

Is my meeting data used for AI training?

No — Fireflies states it does not use customer data to train AI models, with SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.

Conclusion

Fireflies solves the least glamorous problem in knowledge work: remembering what was said. By making every meeting searchable, summarized, and integrated into the tools you already use, it turns conversations from ephemeral moments into durable company knowledge. For teams drowning in calls, it's less a notetaker and more an institutional memory.