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Sembly AI vs Shadow

Sembly AIShadow

Bottom line: Sembly AI for professional services and agency teams; Shadow for sales reps.

Sembly AISembly AI

Sembly AI is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams

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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-meetingsanalyze-data
meeting notesbotlesstranscriptionsalesaction items
Best for
  • Professional services and agency teams
  • Project management offices
  • Teams running high volumes of client-facing meetings
  • sales reps
  • consultants
  • account managers
Pros
  • Captures meetings across all three major conferencing platforms—Zoom
  • Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams—so teams aren't locked into a single ecosystem.
  • Goes beyond transcription to extract structured action items with assigned owners and due dates, turning conversations into trackable follow-ups.
  • Builds a searchable, centralized meeting database that makes past discussions and decisions easy to retrieve.
  • Can attend meetings as a proxy on the user's behalf, ensuring notes are captured even when the person can't join.
  • 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
  • Long meetings are sometimes split into multiple smaller segments rather than delivered as a single continuous summary, which can fragment the record.
  • Feature limits and quotas vary considerably across plan tiers, so buyers need to verify what's actually included at their price point.
  • As an agentic meeting tool that records and stores conversation data, it requires clear internal policies and participant awareness around recording and consent.
  • The depth of vertical and departmental automation may be more than solo users or lightweight note-takers 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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