Calendly, the scheduling and meeting booking company, is entering the meeting note-taker market with a new product that joins calls, records audio and video, transcribes them, and generates summaries, action items, and draft follow-up emails. The company is also testing a Granola-like feature that uses system audio for transcription. Alongside this, Calendly plans to release an AI assistant named Callie, which taps into its existing scheduling stack to set up meetings, check availability, and pull context from prior meetings.

CEO Tope Awotona said the goal is to automate workflows for Calendly‘s heaviest users—people in outward-facing roles like sales and marketing who spend most of their days in meetings. He acknowledged there are already many note-takers that record and transcribe well, but argued the real opportunity lies in automating the work that happens after transcription. “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.

The space is crowded: competitors include Granola, Fireflies, Read AI, Otter, and Fathom, while productivity suites like Notion, ClickUp, and Wispr have also added note-taking assistants. Calendly is differentiating on privacy. Given recent allegations against Otter and Granola for privacy violations, Calendly says its note-taker will inform users that the meeting is being recorded. The assistant sends a chat message to announce its presence and can leave if asked. Because of its integration with Calendly‘s scheduling system, it can also notify participants before the meeting starts that the call will be recorded.