Fellow vs Tactiq

Fellow is a meeting management platform made by a Canadian company headquartered in Ottawa. It covers the whole meeting cycle: collaborative agendas prepared before the call, notes and decisions captured during it, and action items and recaps followed up afterwards, with a strong focus on recurring one-on-ones and team meetings run by managers.

Agendas live in a shared notes document attached to each calendar event, with a template library for one-on-ones, stand-ups, retrospectives and board meetings. Fellow's AI notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls to record, transcribe and summarize, and privacy controls let organizations decide which meetings are recorded and who can see transcripts. Action items sync to tools such as Asana, Jira and Slack. There is a free plan with limits, then per-user Team and Business plans that unlock AI notes, longer history and admin controls, plus an Enterprise tier.

Fellow fits managers and organizations that want to improve meeting habits, not just capture transcripts. Solo users who only need a recorder get more for less from Otter, Fireflies or tl;dv, and teams already standardized on Notion or Confluence may find the agenda features overlap with what they have. Compared with Fathom or Fireflies, Fellow is stronger on pre-meeting preparation, one-on-one workflows and governance, while the pure notetakers are cheaper for transcription alone. Its value depends on the whole team adopting it, so rollout matters.

Tactiq is an AI meeting transcription and notes tool made in Sydney, Australia. Instead of sending a bot into your call, it runs as a Chrome or Edge extension that captures live captions from Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams and turns them into a transcript, summary and action items. The extension is published by Tactiq HQ Pty Ltd.

During the call you see a live transcript and can ask in-meeting AI questions; afterwards you get summaries, follow-up emails and custom AI prompts that can be saved as reusable workflows and shared with a team. Transcripts can be pushed to Slack, Notion, HubSpot and Linear. Tactiq supports 60+ languages, does not record or store audio, and holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II. The Free plan gives 10 transcripts a month; Pro removes the transcript cap, while Team and Business add unlimited AI credits, auto-sharing, SAML SSO and an MCP server plus Claude connector in beta.

Tactiq suits people who dislike bots joining calls, such as consultants, recruiters and customer-facing teams talking to external guests. Otter and Fireflies capture audio and offer richer search and conversation analytics, tl;dv adds video clips, and Granola writes notes from your device audio. Tactiq is lighter and cheaper but depends on the meeting platform's captions.

Buying tip: on the Free and Pro plans, AI credits run out long before transcripts do. If you rely on summaries every day, Team at $16.67 per user billed annually is the practical starting point.