Sembly AI

Records and summarises meetings, then lets you ask questions across every past meeting rather than just the one you just had.

Meetings & notes Agents

Checked 25 Sep 2026

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What you'd use it for

Keeping a running memory of every meeting with a given client so you can ask what was agreed months ago, not just replay the last call.

Joins and records meetings automatically across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex, or captures in-person conversations from the desktop app
Turns a call into notes, action items and a searchable transcript within minutes of it ending
Ask an AI chat a question spanning every meeting you have ever had with a client and get an answer drawn from months of history
Generate branded client deliverables such as status reports, proposals and QBR decks from accumulated meeting and document context
Pull Sembly's meeting data into another AI agent or workflow through MCP access on the Pro tier and above

The verdict

Sembly earns its place once you have enough history with a client that recalling what was agreed three meetings ago is a real problem — the cross-meeting AI chat is a genuine step past a tool that only summarises the call you just had. Pricing runs on client count as much as user seats, so cost tracks how many relationships you're actually managing, and Basic's 25-client cap is worth checking against your roster before you commit. It suits consultants, coaches and account managers with a recurring book of clients; it is more than anyone taking occasional, unconnected meetings needs to pay for.

What it costs

Tier	Price	For	Includes
Free Trial	$0	Testing the transcription and summary quality on a real meeting.	1 user, 5 clients, 750 monthly credits, 1 meeting hour, transcription, transcript search, basic AI chat.
Basic	$10/month, billed annually	One practitioner running a full client roster of meetings.	1 user, 25 clients, 2,500 monthly credits, unlimited capture and transcription across 45+ languages, notes, summaries, tasks, 1 year of history.
Pro	$20/user/month, billed annually	A team of up to 40 with several active client accounts.	Up to 40 users, 100 clients, multi-meeting AI chat and advanced search, workspace automations, webhooks, MCP access, 2 years of history.
MAX	$30/user/month, billed annually	A larger organisation with high meeting volume.	3–500 users, 500 clients, HD video capture, unlimited history, custom SSO, audit log, HIPAA compliance, priority support.
Enterprise	Custom pricing	Organisations needing unlimited scale and custom agreements.	Unlimited users, custom branding, a dedicated success manager, customised onboarding.

Read from Sembly AI's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.

What you need to start

A Microsoft, Google or ICS calendar to connect, so the agent knows which calls to join
An account on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Webex for meetings you want it to join automatically

Around three minutes to sign up and connect a calendar, with no credit card needed for the Basic free trial.

Your first run Sign up, connect a Microsoft, Google or ICS calendar, and Sembly auto-joins your next scheduled call; within minutes of that call ending you have a transcript, meeting notes and action items waiting, with no upload step.

Where it breaks

Joins meetings as a bot across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; also has desktop capture for in-person or offline recordings.

First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.

When not to use it

Anyone taking occasional or one-off meetings, with no ongoing client relationship to build history against, gets little from the cross-meeting memory that is Sembly's actual reason to exist — a plain notetaker will do the same job for less. Teams whose client count runs past Basic's 25 or Pro's 100 should budget for the next tier before they hit the cap mid-quarter.

Most meeting-notes tools solve the meeting you just had. Sembly’s actual differentiator is the layer above that: an AI chat you can ask questions across every meeting you have ever recorded with a given client, not just the transcript in front of you — “what did we agree with this client three months ago” is a question this tool is built to answer.

The pricing structure leans on “clients” as much as users, which is a tell about who this is built for — consultants, coaches and account managers tracking a roster of ongoing relationships, where the value compounds the longer the history goes back. Basic’s cap of 25 clients and Pro’s 100 map directly onto that use case rather than onto team size the way most SaaS pricing does.

What actually separates the tiers

Client caps, not just user seats — check your actual client count against Basic’s 25 or Pro’s 100 before assuming a tier fits, this is the ceiling that bites first.
History length compounds the value — Basic keeps 1 year, Pro 2, MAX unlimited — and the cross-meeting AI chat is only as useful as how far back it can search.
MCP access on Pro is worth noting for anyone already building AI workflows elsewhere — it means Sembly’s meeting data can be pulled into another agent rather than staying siloed.

Where it fits

If your work is genuinely relationship-based — the same clients, recurring meetings, a need to recall what was said months ago — Sembly’s cross-meeting memory is a real advantage over a tool that only summarises one call at a time. For occasional or one-off meetings, that advantage mostly goes unused, and a simpler notetaker will do the job for less.

Alternatives

Meetings & notesApps

Fathom

A meeting assistant that joins your calls, records and transcribes them, and writes the summary and action items — connected to your calendar, so it turns up without being asked.

Checked 15 Sep 2026