Insights on conversation patterns, communication intelligence, and better meetings, 1:1s and client conversations.
The best AI meeting notes app depends on where your meetings happen. How Otter, Fathom, Fireflies, Granola, tl;dv, Plaud and Fluent capture, compared.
Good 1:1 prep isn't a longer agenda. It's ten minutes with the last conversation: what you promised, what they raised, and the question you'll wait for.
Private AI meeting notes means three things: nothing joins the meeting, the vendor doesn't train on it, you control what leaves. How Fluent measures up.
Every AI conversation pendant worth buying in 2026 — Omi, Plaud, Bee, and what's left of Limitless — plus the honest case for skipping the hardware entirely.
You restate because you don't trust you were heard. The team logged the restatement-pattern at meeting two. By meeting eight, they're just waiting for you to finish so they can speak. Trust the first sentence.
You wonder why your team's gone quiet. They didn't get more agreeable. Three meetings ago you shut down a half-formed disagreement without realizing it. The team noticed. The team always notices.
The most informative thing in a 1:1 is what your report was about to say before you said something instead. The cost of filling silence is invisible to the manager and unmistakable to everyone else.
Is the Limitless pendant discontinued? Yes: Meta acquired Limitless and ended new pendant sales. What owners can expect, and how to keep using the hardware.
The hallway, four days after the 1:1. They ask about the thing they raised. You stand there for a half-second too long. They probably didn't notice. You did.
AI tools that remember your conversations, compared on what they keep: one meeting's transcript, or the people and commitments across all of them.