AI · AI notetakers
Read AI
AI meeting notes and summaries across meetings, email and messages
At a glance
Read AI is an AI assistant that joins or connects to meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to produce recaps, action items and highlights, and also measures meeting metrics such as engagement and sentiment. It extends beyond meetings to summarise email and messages, and its Ask Read search answers questions across all of them.
- Category
- AI notetakers
- Best fit
- SME · Mid-market
- Pricing
- See pricing below
- In Adam’s stack
- No
Who Read AI is best for
Teams and managers who want meeting summaries plus insight into how meetings are going, and a single searchable record across meetings, email and chat. Choose it over simpler notetakers when cross-channel search and meeting analytics are useful.
Key features
- Meeting recaps, action items and highlights for Zoom, Meet and Teams
- Meeting metrics such as engagement and sentiment
- Summaries across email and messages as well as meetings
- Ask Read search across meetings, emails and messages
- Integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Slack, Jira, Confluence and Zapier
- Apps for desktop, mobile and Chrome, plus MCP and API access
Why it’s worth it
It connects meetings with the email and chat around them, so you can find what was agreed and what happened next without searching three places.
Things to consider
- The free plan is limited to 5 meeting transcripts a month and 1-hour meetings
- Audio and video playback needs Enterprise or higher, and HIPAA and SSO need Enterprise+ with at least 5 licences
- Meeting bots and engagement scoring can make some participants uncomfortable, so set clear norms
Read AI pricing
Pricing as published by Read AI
Free: US$0, 5 meeting transcripts per month, 1-hour max. Pro: US$15/user/month billed annually or US$19.75 monthly. Enterprise: US$22.50/user/month annually or US$29.75 monthly. Enterprise+: US$29.75/user/month annually or US$39.75 monthly (5+ licences, HIPAA, SAML/SCIM). Volume discounts from 100 licences on annual plans.
Source: read.ai/plans-pricing. Checked 8 October 2026. Prices change often, so confirm on the vendor’s site before you buy.
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FAQ
Read AI: common questions
What is Read AI used for?
It is used to automatically capture meeting notes, action items and highlights, and to search across meetings, email and messages for decisions and follow-ups. It also gives metrics on meeting engagement.
How much does Read AI cost?
There is a free plan with 5 meetings a month. Pro is US$15 per user per month billed annually (US$19.75 monthly), with Enterprise tiers above that.
Who makes Read AI?
Read AI is a Seattle-based company co-founded by David Shim, Rob Williams and Elliott Waldron.
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