Calendly, the scheduling and meeting booking platform, announced in 2026 the launch of an AI-powered meeting note-taker, entering a crowded market that already includes Granola, Fireflies, Read AI, Otter, and Fathom. The company also plans to release an AI scheduling assistant named Callie.
Calendly’s note-taker joins meetings, records audio and video, and generates transcripts, summaries, action items, and draft follow-up emails — capabilities common across competing products. The company said it is also testing a feature that uses system audio to transcribe meetings, similar to an approach used by Granola. Callie, the planned scheduling assistant, will draw on Calendly’s existing scheduling infrastructure to set up meetings, check availability, and surface context from prior meetings.
Calendly CEO Tope Awotona said the product is aimed primarily at sales and marketing professionals whose workdays are heavily meeting-driven. Awotona identified post-meeting workflow automation as the key differentiator the company is pursuing. “There’s a litany of note-takers, and all of them do a great job of recording and transcribing notes. But a lot of work happens after the meetings. And we think that really that’s where the opportunity for our note-takers to be efficient,” he said.
On privacy, Awotona said Calendly’s tool will notify all meeting participants that recording is taking place. The assistant sends a message in the meeting chat to announce its presence, and any participant can ask it to leave. Because of its integration with Calendly’s scheduling system, it can also notify participants before a meeting begins that the call will be recorded. The commitment to transparency comes as some competitors, including Otter and Granola, face allegations of privacy violations.
The note-taker enters a market that also includes productivity platforms such as Notion, ClickUp, and Wispr, which have added similar features to their existing product suites.
Source: TechCrunch