AI meeting assistant
An AI meeting assistant that doesn't send a bot to your call.
Siela records meetings from the desktop app on your own computer, so nobody sees a notetaker join. Afterwards you get the transcript, the decisions, who owns what, and a follow-up email drafted for your yes, all kept with the contact in your CRM. And when you'd rather not be on the call at all, the Call Agent can take it for you.
Recap my call with Priya and draft the follow-up.
Priya wants Q1 pricing before Friday, and you agreed to send it Thursday. You decided to start the trial with her operations team. The recap email is drafted and waiting for your yes.
Recap for Priya
What an AI meeting assistant does
An AI meeting assistant records your meetings, writes the transcript, and pulls out what matters: decisions, action items and who owns them. The useful ones also do something with it, like drafting the follow-up email and saving everything where your team will find it.
- Records from your own device. The Siela desktop app records on your computer, so there's no bot in the participant list and nothing for the other side to admit.
- A full transcript. Everything that was said, searchable later.
- Decisions, owners and follow-up. Pulled out of the conversation, so you don't have to reread the transcript.
- A recap drafted for you. The follow-up email waits for your yes before it goes anywhere.
- Kept with the contact. Notes land on the person in the built-in CRM, next to every message and deal.
When you'd rather not be on the call
Most meeting assistants only take notes. Siela's Call Agent goes a step further: give it a brief, like "qualify this lead", and it joins your Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams call, talks with the person one question at a time, and sends you a report with their answers in their own words. If anyone asks, it says honestly that it's your AI assistant.
It's built for calls with a clear goal, such as the first call with a lead your AI SDR found. The conversations that matter, you still take yourself.
Siela or a dedicated notetaker?
If all you want is great notes for every meeting across a large team, with integrations into dozens of tools, a dedicated notetaker such as Fireflies, Otter or Granola is built for exactly that. See Fireflies alternatives for a fair comparison.
Siela fits when your meetings are part of selling: the notes land in your CRM, the follow-up is drafted, and the same app found the lead and booked the call in the first place.
How it works
Download the desktop app
For Mac and Windows. Meeting notes is included with Siela.
Record the meeting
From your own computer. No bot joins the call.
Read the recap
Transcript, decisions, owners and the follow-up, pulled out for you.
Send the follow-up
The drafted email waits for your yes, and the notes stay on the contact.
CRM and booking come built in
Nothing needs buying or connecting first. The work lands in tools that come with Siela, and every agent can read and write to them from the first minute:
- CRM: contacts and companies, a visual pipeline, and every lead the AI SDR saves, with the reason it was picked.
- Calendar and booking: booking pages you can share, slots checked against every connected calendar, and reminders to both sides.
- Business memory: your brand voice, product facts, people and past work, read by every agent before it writes.
Already on HubSpot or Salesforce? You can connect them.
How it compares
| Siela AI | AI notetakers e.g. Fireflies, Otter, Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| How it records | From the desktop app on your computer; no bot | A bot joins the call, or a desktop app on some |
| After the meeting | Transcript, decisions, owners and a drafted follow-up | Transcript, summary and action items |
| Where notes go | On the contact in the built-in CRM | Its own workspace; syncs to your CRM on some plans |
| Talks on calls for you | Yes, the Call Agent joins Zoom, Meet or Teams | Rarely |
| Finds leads and books the calls | Yes, with the AI SDR and booking pages | No |
Based on each vendor's public website, October 2026. Categories describe typical products in each group; individual tools vary.
Works with the other agents
Call Agent
Joins your Zoom, Meet or Teams call, talks with the person from your brief, and sends you a report when it ends.
AI SDR
Finds people with a fresh reason to buy, starts the conversation on LinkedIn, X and email, and follows up.
Social Media
Posts, comments, replies and handles DMs on LinkedIn and X, the way you set it up.
Questions
What is an AI meeting assistant?
Software that records your meetings, writes the transcript and pulls out decisions, action items and owners, so you don't have to take notes. Some also draft the follow-up and save the notes to your CRM.
Does a bot join my meetings?
No. Siela records from the desktop app on your own computer, so no bot appears in the call.
What do I get after a meeting?
A full transcript, the decisions, who owns what, and a follow-up email drafted for your yes. The notes are kept with the contact in your CRM.
Can it attend a meeting for me?
Yes, for calls with a clear goal. The Call Agent joins Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams from your brief, talks with the person and sends you a report when the call ends.
What's the best AI meeting assistant?
For notes across a big team and many integrations, a dedicated notetaker such as Fireflies, Otter or Granola. If your meetings are mostly sales calls and you want the notes, follow-up and CRM in one place, Siela fits better.
Hand over the growth work.
Paste your website, check the setup and press start. You set the limits; the agents do the rest.