AI Meeting Assistants: Grain vs Fathom vs Otter.ai

AI meeting assistants have moved from nice-to-have to essential. The best tools join your Zoom calls, transcribe everything, identify action items, and generate summaries that your team actually reads. We tested Grain, Fathom, and Otter.ai across 200 meetings to find the real differences.

The Test

We ran 200 meetings across sales calls, team standups, client reviews, and executive 1:1s. We measured transcription accuracy, summary quality, action item detection, integration quality, and overall workflow impact.