Otter.ai Inc
Otter.ai builds AI tools that capture, transcribe, organize, search and act on spoken conversations. Its stated mission is to build AI that helps people do their best work, evolving from an AI notetaker into a conversational knowledge engine for meetings and enterprise workflows.
At a Glance
- Enterprise and mid-market organizations
- Sales and revenue teams
- Education institutions, faculty and students
- Media and journalism teams
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Otter.ai
AI Meeting Notetaker and Transcriber
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Latest News
Back to School, Half the Price: Otter.ai offered students 50% off to turn lectures into study guides, quizzes and exam prep.
Otter.ai named Alex Gay Chief Marketing Officer as it expanded beyond the AI notetaking category.
Otter.ai appointed Mike Barnes to lead global partnerships and alliances.
Otter.ai introduced Live Assist, a live coaching agent for every call.
Products & Services
Core AI meeting notetaker that records or joins meetings, produces live transcripts, identifies speakers, summarizes conversations and extracts decisions and action items.
Meeting assistant that can automatically join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings, capture audio and slides, and generate notes and summaries.
Conversational search and generation across meetings and connected apps, answering questions and creating follow-ups, reports and other content.
AI agents that participate in meetings, answer questions and complete tasks rather than merely transcribing.
Market Position
Otter competes with AI meeting assistants and transcription/knowledge products including Fireflies.ai, Read AI, Avoma, Fathom, tl;dv, Gong, Microsoft Teams/Copilot, Google Meet/Gemini and Zoom AI Companion. Its differentiation is the combination of mature transcription, bot and bot-free capture, meeting agents, cross-meeting conversational search and an enterprise conversational-knowledge layer.
Leadership
Founders
Sam Liang
Co-founder and CEO. Previously a tech lead at Google, where he worked on location technology associated with Google Maps; he also founded PlaceUs and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at DFJ. Liang holds a Stanford computer-science background.
Yun Fu
Co-founder and CTO. A computer-science and AI engineer who has served as Otter.ai's CTO since co-founding the company with Sam Liang.
Executive Team
Sam Liang
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Former Google tech lead and founder of PlaceUs; Stanford-trained computer scientist and longtime AI/mobile-technology entrepreneur.
Yun Fu
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
AI and computer-science engineer who co-founded Otter.ai and leads its technology organization.
Founding Story
Liang and Fu started the company as AISense with the idea that people have talked for hundreds of thousands of years but most conversations are lost. Their initial vision was to capture and organize conversations so they could become searchable, useful knowledge; the first practical expression was AI transcription and meeting notes.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium SaaS: free individual usage is converted to per-user monthly or annual Pro and Business subscriptions, with custom-priced Enterprise contracts and paid add-ons/integrations for larger organizations.
Pricing Tiers
Free plan with limited transcription and file-import allowances.
Individual plan; annual billing is approximately $99.96 per user per year.
Team plan with unlimited meetings, expanded administration and collaboration capabilities.
Enterprise security, governance, support and custom integrations; contact sales.
Target Markets
- Enterprise and mid-market organizations
- Sales and revenue teams
- Education institutions, faculty and students
- Media and journalism teams
- Recruiting and human-resources teams
- Individual professionals and small teams
- Business and enterprise meetings
- Sales calls, coaching, follow-up and CRM workflows
- Lectures, classes and student study notes
- Recruiting interviews and candidate debriefs
- Media interviews and production meetings
- In-person conversations and mobile recording
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