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Fellow vs Shadow

FellowShadow

Bottom line: Fellow for regulated financial services teams needing compliant meeting records; Shadow for sales reps.

FellowFellow

Fellow is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings with a focus on privacy and security

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ShadowShadow

Botless AI meeting assistant that captures every call, on screen and off

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryMeeting AssistantsMeeting Assistants
Tags
transcribe-meetingsorganize-notes
meeting notesbotlesstranscriptionsalesaction items
Best for
  • Regulated financial services teams needing compliant meeting records
  • Organizations that prioritize data governance and privacy controls
  • Sales teams wanting automated CRM updates from meetings
  • sales reps
  • consultants
  • account managers
Pros
  • Strong data governance posture, including AI that is not trained on customer data, granular recording policies, and SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance that suit regulated buyers
  • Explicitly tailored for financial services, with MNPI-aware workflows and analyst-style summaries built around SEC recordkeeping and FINRA supervision requirements
  • Broad meeting coverage across Zoom
  • Google Meet
  • Microsoft Teams, and Slack huddles, plus audio and video uploads for meetings that happen elsewhere
  • Botless, OS-level capture of every call
  • Works on impromptu and non-Zoom meetings
  • Captures on-screen content, not just audio
  • Very generous free tier
  • Integrates with Notion, Slack, and major platforms
Cons
  • The free tier is capped with lifetime limits on AI notes and recordings, so it functions more as a trial than an ongoing free option for regular users
  • Costs scale by seat and usage credits are pooled and metered on lower tiers, which can make monthly spend harder to predict for teams with heavy meeting volume
  • Some of the most valuable controls—advanced recording permissions, transcript redaction, domain control, and org-wide analytics—are reserved for the Enterprise plan
  • The strong emphasis on compliance and governance adds configuration overhead that individuals or small casual teams may not need
  • Always-listening design raises consent concerns
  • Recording disclosure is the user's responsibility
  • Desktop-only capture
  • No public API
  • Screen capture may be sensitive in some settings

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