Bot-free AI note taker for online and in-person meetings
Bluedot is a bot-free AI meeting note taker for professional teams that need accurate notes without a bot joining the call.
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Bluedot records meetings without adding a bot to the call. A Chrome extension, desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and mobile apps capture audio and video across Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack huddles, phone calls and in-person conversations, so participants never see a third-party attendee join. After each call it generates a transcript, an AI summary and a list of action items, with transcription available in more than 100 languages.
Notes flow automatically into the tools teams already use. Bluedot auto-updates CRMs and ATSs such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Copper and Zoho, and pushes summaries to Slack, Notion and Google Drive. Custom note templates shape the output per meeting type, while the Bluedot API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support let developers wire meeting data into their own systems. A built-in AI chat searches across every recorded meeting to surface answers and past context.
Bluedot targets sales teams, recruiters, managers, customer success and engineering roles. A permanently free plan covers 5 lifetime meetings, with paid tiers starting at $14 per user per month for audio-only notes, $20 for unlimited video recording, and $32 for team plans that add CRM/ATS sync, SSO, SCIM and admin controls; a flat-rate company plan is quote-based. It competes with Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom and tl;dv.
Data is never used to train AI models, and the platform is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 certified. Org-wide MCP and webhooks, custom data retention, and SSO/SCIM provisioning are available on the Business and flat-rate company tiers.
Generates a structured summary and a list of action items automatically after each call.
Sends meeting events to external endpoints to trigger downstream automations.
Wires meeting data into external systems through the Bluedot API and Model Context Protocol support.
Auto-updates Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Copper and Zoho with meeting notes after each call.
Pushes summaries and notes to Slack, Notion and Google Drive automatically.
Captures meeting audio and video without sending a bot to join the call, so no third-party participant appears.
Records on-site meetings and phone calls directly from the mobile app.
Ask questions and surface insights across all past recorded meetings from one place.
Configurable retention policies for recordings and transcripts on Business plans.
Enterprise single sign-on and automated user provisioning for teams.
Produces 99% accurate transcripts in more than 100 languages for every recorded meeting.
Formats meeting notes to a chosen structure tailored to each meeting type.
For individuals trying Bluedot with core recording and note-taking.
For solo users who only need audio meeting notes ($18/mo billed monthly, $14/mo billed annually).
For professionals who need unlimited video recording ($25/mo billed monthly, $20/mo billed annually).
For teams needing CRM/ATS sync, SSO and admin controls ($39/mo billed monthly, $32/mo billed annually).
For companies wanting one fixed price regardless of how many people join.
Bluedot's bot-free capture is a real wedge, but a €560K seed is a thin runway.
“Bluedot solves a genuine annoyance — the bot that joins your call — and prices it low enough to trial without a meeting. The concern isn't the product; it's whether a lightly funded 2024 startup outlasts Otter.ai and the platform vendors now shipping native notes.”
Every rival drops a bot into the meeting. Bluedot doesn't, and that single choice is the whole reason to look. Bot-Free Recording removes the awkward third attendee and the consent friction that comes with it.
The vendor question is the real one. Public data shows a €560K seed in 2024, backed by On Deck and Google's startup fund — that's a young, thinly capitalized company in a category where Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai raised far more. SOC 2 and a no-training data policy lower the reputation risk, but the runway is the yellow flag.
Speed to value is strong: a Chrome extension, a free 5-meeting plan, and CRM sync to Salesforce mean a team is live in an afternoon. Pilot it with sales for 60 days. Don't standardize the org until you see how they weather native notes from Zoom and Google.
Bot-free is a real wedge, though incumbents are closing in.
SOC 2 certification and a no-training data policy limit exposure.
Chrome extension and a free plan put a team live in an afternoon.
Bot-free capture fits sales and recruiting teams that dislike visible bots.
A €560K 2024 seed is thin runway against far better-funded rivals.
Sales and recruiting teams who want notes without a bot on the call.
Enterprises who require a deeply funded, long-established vendor.
For a COO standardizing meeting notes across teams, Bluedot's integration surface is the real draw.
“As an operations bet, Bluedot's value is less the transcript and more where the notes land — Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Notion, automatically. The open question is whether a seed-stage vendor can carry that integration promise for three years.”
Meeting notes are an operations problem before they're a software feature. The COO question isn't accuracy — it's whether the output reaches the systems of record without someone copy-pasting. Bluedot's CRM & ATS Sync pushes summaries into Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Zoho after every call, the part that changes a process, not a habit.
The governance story holds up for a rollout. SOC 2, a no-model-training policy, and SSO with SCIM on the $32 Business tier cover the controls an operations org has to answer for. The Bluedot API and MCP support mean the data isn't trapped if you standardize on it.
The long-term concern is structural, not technical. A €560K seed against Fireflies.ai and Otter.ai is thin, and Microsoft and Google keep folding native notes into platforms you already pay for. Bot-free differentiates today, but that moat narrows as incumbents ship. Adopt it team-by-team, not org-wide.
Bot-free differentiates today against Fireflies.ai and Otter.ai.
Auto-sync to Salesforce and HubSpot matches an operations mandate.
CRM, ATS, Slack, Notion, API and MCP cover the operational stack.
Seed-stage funding raises questions over a three-year horizon.
The value is process change via CRM sync, not just transcription.
Operations leaders who want meeting notes to reach their CRM automatically.
Companies already standardized on Microsoft or Google native meeting notes.
Four public tiers from $14 to $32 mean procurement clears this without a sales call.
“Pricing is transparent, cheap, and free of the SSO surcharge that plagues this category until the Business tier. The soft spot is the flat-rate company plan, which is quote-only and breaks the clean math.”
Pricing is fully public through four tiers. That alone beats vendors who hide SSO behind a sales call. Basic runs $14/user annually, $18 monthly — a 22% penalty for paying month to month.
Run the TCO. A 25-seat sales team on Pro at $20/seat annual is $6,000/year. Business at $32 adds CRM & ATS Sync, SSO and SCIM: $9,600/year for 25. Compare Otter.ai Business at $20 and Fireflies at $19 — Bluedot sits mid-pack, not cheapest.
Contract terms favor annual, and unlimited storage caps the overage surprise. But the flat-rate company plan is quote-only, so the one tier a CFO would want benchmarked is the one you can't see. ROI is clear on paper; the invoice risk lives in that quote.
No SSO surcharge until the $32 Business tier eases procurement.
Annual saves 22% over monthly; the flat-rate plan is quote-only.
Four tiers from $14 to $32 are fully public, no sales call.
Per-seat cost is clear, but the company plan can't be benchmarked.
Pro at $20/seat is $6,000/year for 25, with unlimited storage.
Small teams who want predictable per-seat pricing without a sales call.
Finance teams who need the company-wide flat rate benchmarked upfront.
For back-to-back meeting days, Bluedot's bot-free capture removes the one recurring social friction.
“The daily win is subtle: nothing joins the call, so there's no 'who's recording?' moment to manage in every meeting. The daily friction is the 1-hour recording cap on Basic and the fact that capture depends on a local app staying open.”
The bot-free model changes a small daily ritual. Nothing appears in the participant list, so a knowledge worker in six meetings a day never fields the 'who's that bot?' question. Capture runs off the Chrome extension or desktop app instead.
Custom Note Templates are the feature that earns daily use — a sales-call template and a 1:1 template produce differently shaped notes without reformatting. AI Chat across past meetings beats scrolling transcripts when you need what someone committed to three weeks ago. That's a real workflow, closer to Fireflies.ai than to a plain recorder like Otter.ai.
Two friction points surface once you're past the demo. Basic caps recordings at 1 hour, so a long workshop gets truncated unless you're on Pro. And because capture is local, a closed laptop or dead app means a missed meeting — the catch of going bot-free instead of cloud-side.
Bot-free capture removes a recurring social friction from daily calls.
Bluedot API and MCP support point to real integration docs.
Basic caps recordings at 1 hour and capture depends on a local app.
Custom templates, AI Chat, API and webhooks give genuine depth.
Custom Note Templates and CRM sync fit an existing workflow.
Knowledge workers who sit in back-to-back calls all day.
People who record long workshops on the entry-level Basic plan.
It records without the awkward bot in the corner, and that alone changes the vibe.
“The bot-free thing sounds like a gimmick until you realize how much low-grade awkwardness it removes from every call. It's genuinely easy to start, but the free plan's 5-meetings-for-life ceiling means you're deciding whether to pay fast.”
Install the Chrome extension, hit record, and the meeting records. No third face in the grid, nobody asking why a bot joined. For anyone who's watched Otter.ai's Otter Pilot slide into a client call uninvited, that's a relief.
The mobile story is better than most here. There are real iOS and Android apps, and In-Person Recording captures the coffee-shop meeting, not just the Zoom one. Onboarding is quick and the 100+ language transcription is a nice flex if your calls aren't all in English.
Two honest gripes. The free plan is 5 meetings for life — not per month, for life — so the demo glow runs out fast and you're picking a $14 or $20 plan. The catch of recording locally is that reliability rides on the app staying awake, and forget to launch it, the meeting's just gone. Still, it respects your time more than it wastes it.
Bot-free capture and clean summaries feel considered day to day.
Install, record, done; there's almost nothing to configure.
Real iOS and Android apps with genuine in-person recording.
Chrome extension plus a free 5-meeting plan starts in minutes.
Local recording works well but depends on the app staying open.
Professionals who bounce between back-to-back video calls.
Heavy users who won't upgrade past the free plan.
Genuine bot-free wedge, but a €560K seed funds a very loud marketing page.
“The differentiation is real and the SOC 2 posture is more than most seed-stage tools bother with. What earns the side-eye is the gap between the marketing and the money.”
The site says 50,000+ companies — Netflix, Disney, Salesforce. Public funding says €560K seed, 2024. Both can be technically true if you count anyone who installed the free 5-meeting plan, but that's the kind of stat that inflates a graveyard.
Credit where due. Bot-Free Recording is a genuine difference, not a reskin of Otter.ai. SOC 2, a no-training data policy, and notes that export to Notion and Google Drive mean the exit isn't a hostage situation. That's better than half this category.
The floor under it is the worry. Fireflies.ai and Fathom are better funded, and Zoom, Teams and Google are shipping native notes for free inside the call. A €560K seed against that is thin. Bot-free buys them a lane for now — the question is whether the lane survives the platforms deciding they want it too.
Bot-free is genuine differentiation versus Otter.ai and Fathom.
Notes export to Notion and Google Drive, so leaving is clean.
Seed funding against native platform notes is a real risk.
The 50,000+ companies claim strains against a €560K seed.
SOC 2 and features check out; the customer-scale claim doesn't fully.
Buyers who value bot-free privacy over vendor track record.
Teams that need a well-capitalized vendor for a multi-year commitment.
Common questions answered by our AI research team
Bluedot has a free plan with 5 lifetime meetings. Paid plans are $14/user/month for audio-only Basic, $20 for Pro with unlimited video, and $32 for Business with CRM/ATS sync and SSO. A flat-rate company plan is quote-based.
Yes. Bluedot records audio and video directly through its Chrome extension and desktop and mobile apps, so no bot appears as a participant on Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Webex calls.
Yes. The Business plan includes CRM and ATS integrations that auto-update Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Copper and Zoho after each meeting. You can also push notes to Slack, Notion and Google Drive.
No. Bluedot never uses your data to train or improve AI models. The platform is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 certified, and Business plans add SSO, SCIM and custom data retention controls for teams.
Install the Bluedot Chrome extension or the Mac, Windows, iOS or Android app and start a meeting. The free plan records 5 meetings for life with transcripts, summaries and action items in over 100 languages.
Company
BluedotFounded
2022Pricing
From $14/moFree Plan
AvailableBluedot is a London-based maker of a bot-free AI note taker that records, transcribes and summarizes online and in-person meetings via a Chrome extension.
