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Read AI

An AI meeting assistant that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls to transcribe, summarize, and analyze conversations, and also connects to email, chat, and files for cross-tool search.

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What it does

Read AI joins video calls on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to record, transcribe, and summarize conversations in real time. It also analyzes speaker engagement and sentiment, generates action items, and produces short video highlight clips. It extends past live meetings into an enterprise search layer covering connected email, chat, and files, and integrates with CRM and productivity tools.

Ideal users

  • Sales and customer-success teams tracking call engagement and follow-ups
  • Recruiters and hiring managers reviewing interview notes
  • Consultants and agencies needing searchable meeting history across clients
  • Teams wanting coaching feedback on meeting participation

Who should avoid it

  • Your organization has strict confidentiality or consent policies — some institutions have blocked it
  • You're an individual needing more than 1 hour or 5 transcripts a month without paying
  • You dislike automated bots visibly joining calls or per-participant sentiment scoring

Key features

  • Automatic transcription, recap, and action-item generation
  • Real-time in-meeting notes with topic highlights
  • Speaker and engagement sentiment (meeting coach) scoring
  • Video playback and highlight reels of key moments
  • Cross-source enterprise search across meetings, email, and messages with citations
  • Ada, a digital-twin assistant for task and workflow handling
  • Native integrations with Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, and Zapier

Pros

  • Broad platform support across Zoom, Meet, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, and Slack
  • Genuinely useful free tier for light users
  • Deep CRM and productivity integrations on paid tiers
  • Engagement and sentiment analytics differentiate it from plain transcription tools

Cons

  • Per-seat pricing escalates quickly for larger teams
  • Free tier is capped at 5 transcripts/month and 1-hour meetings
  • Some institutions have banned it over consent and data-exposure concerns
  • Sentiment and engagement scoring of participants has drawn privacy criticism

Pricing

Free — $15/user/month billed annually ($19.75/user/month billed monthly), Pro plan

Four tiers: Free, Pro, Enterprise ($29.75), Enterprise+ ($39.75, monthly-billed); annual billing cuts roughly 25%; Enterprise+ requires a 5-license minimum, with volume discounts at higher seat counts.

Typical workflows

  • Read AI's bot joins a scheduled Zoom, Meet, or Teams call, auto-generates a transcript and summary emailed to attendees, and surfaces action items into Notion, Salesforce, or Slack.
  • Sales and CS teams use engagement and sentiment scoring to gauge how meetings landed and coach reps; the Ada assistant and enterprise search let users query past meetings, emails, and files in one place.

Integrations

  • Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams
  • Gmail, Outlook, Slack
  • Salesforce, HubSpot
  • Notion, Jira, Confluence, Asana, Linear
  • Zapier, webhooks, public API, MCP server

Privacy & security notes

Read AI's bot visibly joins calls but can generate summaries even when the calendar owner isn't present, and by default may auto-share summaries with all participants — raising consent concerns since attendees aren't always aware they're being recorded or analyzed. At least one major university cited exactly this — unauthorized joining, lack of attendee consent, and uncontrolled summary distribution — as grounds for blocking Read AI's Teams/Zoom integration on its network in 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Is Read AI free?

A free tier exists but is limited to 5 transcripts a month and 1-hour meetings.

Works with Microsoft Teams?

Yes, along with Zoom and Google Meet.

Can it join without me present?

Yes — a documented behavior that has led some institutions to restrict it over consent concerns.

Does it score participants?

Yes, its meeting coach feature gives engagement and sentiment analysis, even on the free plan.

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