Fathom vs. Built-In Meeting Notes: AI That Makes Meetings Meaningful

Zoom’s AI Companion, Microsoft Teams Copilot, and Google Meet all offer basic transcription – while Fathom delivers accurate, action-ready insights your team can actually use.

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Fathom's Deal View for a sales opportunity, showing a chronological call history alongside an AI panel with a deal summary, key people, and an Ask Fathom tab

Higher accuracy and richer understanding

Native tools produce broad summaries meant for general meetings. Fathom captures key moments, decisions, risks, questions, and action items with far more clarity.

A HubSpot deal record automatically updated with a feed of synced Fathom meeting summaries

Structured notes that update your system automatically

Native transcription services don’t create structured outputs or push data into your workflows automatically. Fathom maps clean, organized insights directly into tools like Salesforce and HubSpot – no editing or admin work needed.

Fathom's AI Scorecard for a sales call, showing a MEDDIC-based overall score, criteria breakdowns, and team performance charts

Coaching intelligence built-in

Native tools stop at transcription. Fathom provides native coaching tools, highlighting conversational patterns, team behaviors, and improvement signals to help leaders support their teams at scale.

Fathom's AI chat interface with suggested prompts about upcoming meetings and deal follow-ups

Ask Fathom & AI Search for deeper analysis

Built-in tools can only show you what was said in a single meeting. Fathom helps you analyze patterns across teams, accounts, projects, and conversations – giving you answers, not transcripts.

Fathom's logo at the center of a network of connected meeting and workplace app icons

Cross-platform consistency

Whether your customer uses Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams – Fathom works everywhere. Native tools only work inside their own ecosystem.

Real talk from Fathom customers

"(Fathom) underpromises and overdelivers. VERY+ experience. it WORKS" 5/5

It is much more stable and reliable than Copilot. Also, the customer support has been fantastic!

Carlos O.

CEO

"Much better than the built-in Zoom AI Companion" 5/5

The level of detail and the accuracy in the notes are truly impressive. This is much better than the built-in Zoom AI Companion!

Paul O.

Senior IT SRE Engineering Manager

"By far, the best tool for sales enhancement." 5/5

Customer support quality, a very good tool to get your recordings analyzed using AI and the easy way to set it up. I use every 3 times a day in my sales meetings and definetely it has increased the way we analyze our meetings. Very easy to integrate with the major players in the remote meetings industry.

Elkin D. G.

Founder & CTO

"Fathom.ai is a game changer for sales leaders and their teams!" 5/5

Fathom has been transformative for my team from a productivity and data integrity perspective. The integration with Google Meet and Hubspot have made our forecast calls much more direct and accurate. As a result the communication between the sales team and leadership has improved tremendously, giving us better clarity on what's in our pipeline. I wouldn't run a sales organization without Fathom.ai ever again!

Derek B.

Vice President, Sales

Data/Stats

Never miss what matters

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of users say Fathom helps them close deals faster

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of users say Fathom helps them close deals faster

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more time spent selling thanks to automated CRM updates

Proof is in the numbers

Don't take it from us...

19K installs

on the HubSpot marketplace and counting

4.7 ⭐

rating on HubSpot Marketplace, and named one of HubSpot's Essential Apps for Sales 2024

5 ⭐

rating on G2.com with over 6,000 reviews

Proof is in the numbers

Don't take it from us...

19K installs

on the HubSpot marketplace and counting

4.7 ⭐

rating on HubSpot Marketplace, and named one of HubSpot's Essential Apps for Sales 2024

5 ⭐

rating on G2.com with over 6,000 reviews

Fathom works everywhere you meet and syncs meeting insights automatically with the tools your team already uses.
Zero friction, maximum flexibility.

FAQs

Questions? We’ve got you covered.

Does Fathom only work with Zoom?

No. Fathom captures meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Slack Huddles. Zoom AI Companion, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's meeting AI each work only inside their own platform, so switching tools between meetings means switching notetakers too.

Can I use Fathom for in-person meetings?

Not yet through the current surfaces. Fathom's iOS app, built specifically for in-person meetings, is coming soon. Today, capture happens through the desktop app or the Fathom Notetaker on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Slack Huddles.

Is Fathom good for sales teams, even compared to a tool already built into Zoom or Teams?

Yes, and the comparison isn't close on team-wide visibility. Built-in AI tools capture one meeting on one platform for one person. Fathom's Deal View aggregates every call tied to a deal across platforms, syncs summaries directly to HubSpot or Salesforce, and lets a manager query the whole deal history with Ask Fathom, none of which a single-platform built-in tool is built to do.

How is Fathom different from Zoom AI Companion, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's built-in meeting AI?

Those are features bolted onto an existing platform. Fathom is a dedicated meeting partner built for one job: capturing, transcribing, and summarizing every meeting you take, on whichever platform it happens on, then making that knowledge searchable across your whole team through Ask Fathom.

How accurate are Fathom's meeting summaries?

G2 reviewers rate Fathom's AI text summarization at 95%, the highest score of any tool it's benchmarked against on the platform.

How does Fathom compare to other AI notetakers like Gong, Fireflies, Otter, Avoma or tl;dv?

Fathom is rated 97% for ease of setup, 97% for ease of use, and 97% for quality of support on G2, each the highest in its category. For a closer look at how Fathom stacks up against the full field of AI notetakers, see our full comparison.

Proof is in the numbers

Don't take it from us...

5 ⭐

on Product Hunt

5 ⭐

rating on G2.com

38 Mins

saved per meeting on average

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