An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and highlights key moments in real-time.
Fathom is an AI meeting assistant, founded in 2020 by Richard White, a Y Combinator alum who previously built UserVoice. It records, transcribes, and summarizes calls on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams automatically.
Fathom has recently added bot-free capture (no visible bot joining your call, currently in beta for Mac), a desktop app, and direct integrations with Claude and ChatGPT that surface your meeting context inside the AI tool you already use. The company says it's used at over 300,000 companies, though that figure comes from Fathom itself and covers everyone from solo users to large sales teams.
The most common use case for a solo founder is simple: stop taking notes during client calls, and get a clean summary the moment the call ends. Fathom transcribes the full conversation, then generates a shorter recap you can skim in under a minute.
Ask Fathom lets you ask questions about a call in a ChatGPT-like interface, useful for pulling a specific commitment out of a 45-minute conversation without rewatching it. A consultant uses this to confirm exactly what scope was agreed on a sales call, three weeks after the fact, without digging through a full transcript.
Fathom also generates AI action items automatically, and can push meeting notes into Slack, Notion, Asana, or a CRM so follow-up doesn't depend on you remembering to do it manually.
Every recorded call gets a chronological and enhanced AI summary, available immediately after the call ends. This is included even on the free plan.
A conversational AI interface for querying a specific call, or across all your calls on paid plans, in a ChatGPT-like chat format. This is where the real time savings live, since it removes the need to rewatch or re-read a transcript to find one detail.
Records meetings without a visible bot joining the call, currently available for Mac. This matters if a bot icon in the participant list feels awkward on client calls.
Surfaces your meeting context directly inside Claude or ChatGPT, so you can ask either tool about a past conversation without switching apps. This is a genuinely new addition and directly useful for anyone already living inside an AI chat tool for their daily work.
Connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier, Make, and a public API with MCP support. Automatic CRM field updates are limited to the Business plan and up.
Solo founders and consultants who run client calls regularly and want a reliable record of what was said and agreed, without manually taking notes.
Sales-led solo operators who want CRM updates to happen automatically after every call, though that specific feature requires the Business plan and a 2-user minimum.
Bot-free and bot capture options, unlimited recordings and transcription, unlimited call downloads and clips, playlists of highlights
Automated call summaries, advanced summaries (15+ expert templates including BANT and Sandler frameworks, Business plan and up), AI action items, AI follow-up emails, coaching metrics
Attendee and keyword search, Ask Fathom (single call, all plans with limits; account-wide on paid plans), AI search alerts, keyword alerts
Team recordings view, shared folders, comments and mentions, customer view, deal view (Business and up)
Claude and ChatGPT integrations, Zapier and Make automation, Slack integration, public API and MCP, CRM sync (Business and up), SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA compliance, SSO and SCIM (Enterprise)
Free Plan: Unlimited recordings, unlimited transcription, choice of bot-free (beta) or bot capture, instant AI call summaries, clips and playlists, search across calls. Genuinely free forever, no trial expiration.
Premium — $20/month (billed monthly) / $16/month (billed annually): Everything in Free, plus advanced call summaries, AI-generated action items, the conversational Ask Fathom assistant, and a custom meeting bot name.
Team — $19/month per user (billed monthly) / $15/month per user (billed annually), 2-user minimum: Everything in Premium, plus global search across all team calls, team-wide highlight playlists, and collaboration tools like comments and keyword alerts.
Business — $34/month per user (billed monthly) / $25/month per user (billed annually), 2-user minimum: Everything in Team, plus CRM field sync, Deal View, coaching metrics and AI scorecards, and custom call summary templates.
Enterprise: Custom pricing. Adds SSO, SCIM provisioning, custom data retention, and a dedicated Customer Success manager.
Nonprofit Discount: 10 free Team seats for qualifying nonprofits.
If You Cancel: All paid plans carry a 90-day money-back guarantee. There's no stated limit on accessing your existing recordings and transcripts if you downgrade back to Free.
⚠️ Worth knowing: the free plan doesn't include AI action items or Ask Fathom, the two features that do most of the actual time-saving work. Solo founders who want more than a transcript and a basic summary will likely need Premium at $20/month.
Prices last verified August 2026. Check Fathom's pricing page for current rates before subscribing.
If you're currently typing notes during calls or relying on memory afterward, Fathom replaces that entirely with automatic transcription and summary. It competes directly with Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Grain in the notetaking space.
It doesn't replace a CRM. It syncs into one instead, on the Business plan, automatically writing meeting insights into specific CRM fields rather than requiring you to update records by hand.
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