Recall.ai

About Recall.ai

Recall.ai is the definitive infrastructure layer for meeting intelligence, providing a sophisticated API that seamlessly captures high-fidelity recordings, transcripts, and rich metadata from virtual meeting platforms. Designed for engineering teams at scale, it eliminates the immense complexity of building in-house recording systems. Companies leverage Recall.ai to embed conversation intelligence directly into their products, enabling features like AI notetakers, sales coaching tools, and compliance recorders. Its core value proposition is profound acceleration: what typically requires months of engineering effort to navigate platform-specific APIs, real-time media processing, and diarization can be achieved in mere days. Trusted by thousands of companies, including notable names in SaaS, legal tech, and healthcare, Recall.ai offers both a Meeting Bot API for explicit, participant-aware recording and a Desktop Recording SDK for a seamless, local application experience. With a recent $38M Series B funding round, the platform is poised for continued innovation as the essential backbone for the next generation of AI-powered workplace productivity.

Features of Recall.ai

Meeting Bot API

This API allows you to programmatically send a bot participant into video conferences on platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. The bot captures the complete meeting experience, including multi-stream video and audio, real-time transcripts, chat messages, and participant metadata. It is the ideal solution for applications requiring explicit recording consent or for building interactive, AI-driven meeting agents that can participate in the conversation, display content, or stream audio.

Desktop Recording SDK

For a discreet and user-controlled recording experience, the Desktop Recording SDK enables developers to build native desktop applications that capture meetings directly from a user's machine. This method does not require a bot to join the call, making it seamless for other participants. It is perfect for internal tools, personal productivity assistants, or any use case where a stealthier, client-side recording approach is preferred, all while leveraging Recall.ai's robust backend infrastructure for processing and storage.

Comprehensive Data Extraction

Recall.ai delivers over 100 structured data points from every meeting, transforming raw media into actionable intelligence. This includes perfectly diarized transcripts (attributing speech to each participant), separate audio and video streams per participant, screenshare content, participant identifiers and emails, meeting metadata, and chat logs. This granular data fidelity is what empowers developers to build deeply analytical and feature-rich applications on top of the raw recording.

Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance

Built for the enterprise, Recall.ai provides a secure foundation with critical certifications including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliance. The platform offers robust features like secure data handling, recording consent management, and granular access controls. This allows companies in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, legal, and finance to integrate meeting intelligence without compromising on security or privacy obligations.

Use Cases of Recall.ai

Conversation Intelligence & Sales Enablement

Revenue and sales teams utilize Recall.ai to power platforms that analyze sales calls for coaching and performance insights. By automatically capturing recordings and transcripts, these tools can provide keyword tracking, talk-time ratios, sentiment analysis, and competitive intelligence, helping managers coach reps and close more deals effectively.

AI-Powered Meeting Assistants & Notetakers

Productivity and collaboration tools integrate Recall.ai to offer automated meeting summaries, action item extraction, and intelligent note-taking. The API provides the real-time and post-meeting data needed for AI models to generate concise recaps, identify decisions, and assign tasks, freeing participants from manual note-taking.

Compliance and Legal Record-Keeping

In sectors like legal, finance, and healthcare, where recording client interactions for compliance, training, or dispute resolution is mandatory, Recall.ai offers a reliable, auditable infrastructure. Its explicit bot-based recording ensures consent is captured, while its secure, compliant data handling meets stringent regulatory requirements for record retention.

Product-Led Growth & User Behavior Analysis

SaaS companies embed Recall.ai to understand how customers use their product during demo or support calls. By analyzing these interactions, product and engineering teams can gain unparalleled insights into user pain points, feature requests, and onboarding hurdles, directly informing product development and improving the user experience.

Frequently Asked Questions

What meeting platforms does Recall.ai support?

Recall.ai provides comprehensive API support for all major video conferencing platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Slack Huddles. The infrastructure is designed to handle the unique APIs and protocols of each platform, giving developers a single, unified interface to work with regardless of the source.

How does the Meeting Bot handle recording consent?

The Meeting Bot API is designed with consent as a first-class feature. The bot appears as a named participant in the meeting, providing clear visibility that recording is in progress. Developers can leverage Recall.ai's APIs to manage consent flows, and the platform can provide metadata confirming participant awareness, which is crucial for legal and ethical compliance.

What is the difference between the Meeting Bot API and Desktop SDK?

The Meeting Bot API involves a cloud-based bot joining the call as a participant, ideal for scenarios where visibility and explicit consent are needed. The Desktop Recording SDK is for building an application that records locally on a user's computer, offering a more transparent experience for other call participants. The choice depends on your product's user experience and compliance requirements.

Can I get real-time data streams from meetings?

Yes, Recall.ai offers powerful real-time capabilities. Beyond just post-meeting recordings, you can access live audio streams, video streams, and real-time transcription data as the meeting happens. This enables the development of live features such as real-time translation, live captioning, or interactive AI agents that can respond during the conversation.