Read AI, Inc.
Read AI's mission is to make every interaction better with AI. It builds an independent productivity-AI system of record that turns meetings, email, messaging, files and connected workplace data into summaries, answers, recommendations and next actions.
At a Glance
- Individuals and knowledge workers
- Small and midsize teams
- Enterprise organizations
- Sales and revenue teams
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AI Tools by Read AI, Inc.
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AI Meeting Summaries and Notes
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Products & Services
AI-generated meeting recaps, transcripts, video, highlights, action items, engagement metrics and personalized recommendations across Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
Search and Q&A across meeting history and connected workplace sources, returning cited answers and enabling follow-up actions and workflows.
Behavior-based agents that analyze meetings, email and messages to provide proactive recaps, catch-ups, recommendations and actions.
An email-based digital twin that works through ada@read.ai to schedule meetings, answer questions, provide out-of-office coverage and follow up on tasks while asking the user to review non-scheduling responses.
Market Position
Read AI positions itself as an independent, platform-agnostic productivity-AI layer rather than only a meeting notetaker: it combines meeting capture and analytics with email, messaging, CRM, files, enterprise search, cited answers, agents and a digital twin. It competes in meeting intelligence and AI-assistant categories with Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, Avoma, Gong, Granola, Microsoft Copilot and platform-native meeting assistants, while differentiating through cross-platform coverage, connected organizational context, proactive workflows and botless capture options.
Leadership
Founders
David Shim
Co-founder and CEO; former CEO of Foursquare and founder and CEO of Placed, which was sold to Snapchat in 2017. He also helped lead Foursquare and Placed alongside the other Read AI founders.
Robert (Rob) Williams
Co-founder and CTO; former Senior Director of Engineering at Foursquare and Placed.
Elliott Waldron
Co-founder and VP of Data Science; former VP of Data Science at Foursquare and Placed.
Executive Team
David Shim
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Former CEO of Foursquare and founder and CEO of Placed, sold to Snapchat in 2017.
Robert (Rob) Williams
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Former Senior Director of Engineering at Foursquare and Placed.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Read AI was started in 2021 by David Shim, Robert Williams and Elliott Waldron after their experience building Foursquare and Placed. The initial vision was to use AI to automate mundane work across meetings, scheduling, email and messages, centralize fragmented knowledge, and help people attend fewer meetings, send fewer emails and make decisions more simply.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium, per-user subscription software for individuals and teams, plus enterprise sales with security, administration, support and custom controls. Read also offers paid integrations, API access and enterprise workspaces.
Pricing Tiers
5 meeting transcripts per month, unlimited enterprise search, summaries for meetings/email/messaging, basic integrations, topic readouts, 20+ languages and mobile/desktop apps.
Unlimited meeting transcripts, priority processing, 100 file-upload credits per month and premium integrations including Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier and webhooks.
Pro features plus audio/video playback, video highlights, 200 file-upload credits per month and premium support.
Requires 5+ licenses; adds HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM, domain capture, custom data retention, 300 file-upload credits per month and workspace onboarding.
Target Markets
- Individuals and knowledge workers
- Small and midsize teams
- Enterprise organizations
- Sales and revenue teams
- Companies, universities and public-sector organizations
- Teams using Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams
- Meeting notes, transcripts and post-meeting follow-through
- Enterprise search and organizational knowledge retrieval
- Sales qualification, follow-up, pipeline reviews and CRM workflows
- Scheduling and calendar coordination
- Email and messaging summaries and action items
- Executive-assistant and out-of-office coverage through Ada
- Zoom
- HubSpot
- University of Michigan
- Tulane University