Fellow vs Shadow

Fellow is a secure AI meeting assistant designed to record, transcribe, and summarize meetings across platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. It prioritizes privacy, ensuring meeting data is accessible only to authorized users with granular controls and compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR standards. The platform supports pre-meeting preparation with collaborative agendas and AI-generated briefs, helping teams stay focused and productive. Post-meeting, Fellow automates follow-ups, action items, and CRM updates, integrating with over 50 tools including Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, and Slack. It offers botless recording options for added privacy and supports regulated industries such as finance and healthcare with features like transcript redaction and audit trails. Fellow serves diverse teams from sales and marketing to engineering and operations, centralizing meeting knowledge and streamlining workflows.

Shadow is a macOS app that captures what you say, hear, and see on your screen, then runs custom Skills to turn that context into meeting notes, emails, code, or other outputs. It works in the background during calls and on a keyboard shortcut anywhere else, so you stay focused on the conversation instead of juggling notes and follow-ups.

Unlike bot-based meeting recorders, Shadow never joins your call. It detects meetings automatically, transcribes locally on your Mac, labels speakers in real time, and captures meeting screenshots on its own. When a call ends, you pick a Meeting Skill or write your own prompt to generate notes, BANT breakdowns, action items, or follow-up emails.

Outside meetings, Action Skills let you press a shortcut on any screen. Shadow listens to your voice, reads selected text, and screenshots the active window to run prompts that paste results into your app or show them where you are working. Teams at companies like Vercel, Rippling, and Intercom already use it for faster meeting follow-through and hands-free writing.