Fellow Review

What Makes Fellow Different

While most AI meeting tools focus on what happens during and after a call, Fellow starts before the meeting even begins. Collaborative agendas let teammates add talking points ahead of time. Pre-meeting briefs pull context from prior meetings so nobody walks in cold. After the meeting, AI extracts action items and pushes them directly into your project management tool.

This before-during-after approach makes Fellow a meeting management platform rather than just a meeting recorder. If your meetings regularly end with vague next steps that nobody follows up on, Fellow addresses that specific problem with 50+ integrations that turn meeting outcomes into tracked tasks.

AI Meeting Notes and Action Items

Fellow's AI transcription covers the basics competently: it joins Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams calls, records the conversation, and produces a searchable transcript with speaker labels. Summaries are organized by agenda topic when you use the built-in agenda feature, which keeps notes structured rather than dumping everything into a single stream.

Action item extraction is where Fellow pulls ahead. It identifies commitments from conversational language — 'I'll send that report by Friday' becomes a tracked task with an owner and deadline. These action items can auto-sync to Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday, or ClickUp, eliminating the copy-paste step that kills follow-through in most teams.

Collaborative Agendas and Pre-Meeting Briefs

The agenda feature is straightforward: create a shared agenda before the meeting, and anyone invited can add items. During the meeting, the agenda serves as a running outline for notes. This sounds simple, but it materially changes meeting quality — participants arrive prepared, discussions stay on track, and nobody forgets to bring up their topic.

Pre-meeting briefs are auto-generated from your past meeting history with the same group. If you had a weekly sync last Tuesday where someone committed to finishing a design review, this week's brief surfaces that commitment so you can check on it. For recurring meetings, this feature alone justifies the tool.

Integration Ecosystem

Fellow's 50+ integrations cover three critical categories: project management (Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday, ClickUp), CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), and knowledge bases (Notion, Confluence). The CRM auto-update is particularly strong — meeting notes and action items push to Salesforce or HubSpot contact records without manual entry.

The Zapier integration opens up hundreds of additional connections. Glean integration is notable for enterprise customers who want meeting notes searchable alongside all their other company knowledge. Compared to Fireflies.ai's integration ecosystem, Fellow matches or exceeds it for project management but has fewer niche integrations.

1-on-1 Meeting Templates

Fellow includes purpose-built templates for 1-on-1 meetings between managers and reports. Templates include sections for career development, blockers, feedback, and weekly goals. The templates carry forward unfinished items from previous 1-on-1s, creating continuity across check-ins.

For managers running 5-10 direct report meetings weekly, this structure prevents the 'so, how are things going?' problem where 1-on-1s become aimless chat instead of productive coaching sessions.

Centralized Meeting Repository

All recordings, transcripts, summaries, and action items live in a searchable central repository. This becomes increasingly valuable over time — when a stakeholder asks 'didn't we decide X three months ago?', you can search across all past meetings and pull up the exact moment that decision was made.

Pricing and Free Tier

Fellow offers a free plan for individual users that covers basic meeting notes and transcription. A 14-day Pro trial unlocks all features including AI recording credits, team collaboration, and integrations. After the trial, paid plans provide full access to action item tracking, CRM syncing, and the complete integration ecosystem.

The free tier is more limited than Fathom's unlimited free plan or Otter's 300 min/month, but Fellow's value isn't in the transcription — it's in the meeting management workflow that wraps around it.

Who Should Use Fellow

Fellow is built for managers and team leads who run multiple recurring meetings weekly and need those meetings to produce tracked outcomes. Engineering managers connecting standup action items to Jira tickets, sales managers pushing call notes into Salesforce, and product managers documenting decisions in Confluence all get direct value.

If you just need a transcript of your meetings, Fellow is overkill. Fathom gives you that for free. Fellow's value shows up when your meetings have agendas, produce action items, and feed into other systems.