Author
Uma Mahesh Bandaru
Writes about live interviews, sales calls and meetings, and how real-time AI assistance changes each of them.
142 articles
- AI & Tools Fireflies vs Plaud: the three ceilings, and which one you hit first Fireflies vs Plaud, checked live on 20 Aug 2026: a 2-hour recording row, 400 mins of free storage, and Plaud's 300-minute month. Which one breaks you? August 23, 2026
- AI & Tools Three AI notetakers, two ways of getting into your call Compare Fireflies vs Otter vs Granola on how each captures calls, with prices pulled live on 20 August 2026. See which fits your meetings today. August 23, 2026
- AI & Tools Sembly AI Alternatives: What To Use When You Don’t Want a Bot in the Room Sembly’s own site describes its assistant in one blunt sentence: it “joins calls as a participant, introduces itself, records, and […] August 22, 2026
- Uncategorized AI Notetaker Without a Bot: Bot-Free Meeting Notes (2026) An AI notetaker without a bot runs from your machine, with no recorder on the guest list. How the bot-free approach works and what to look… August 21, 2026
- AI & Tools Salesken Alternatives: A Desktop Live Copilot for Reps Without a QA Team Salesken’s own pricing page gives away the business model in one line: licenses are “priced per recorded user,” with an […] August 21, 2026
- AI & Tools HubSpot’s conversation intelligence cap costs $0.12 a seat an hour. Gong won’t say. Gong vs HubSpot on conversation intelligence: HubSpot's 750-hour cap priced per transcribed hour on 20 Aug 2026, and Gong still lists no price. August 20, 2026
- AI & Tools Chorus.ai or Fireflies: what a sales team should actually pay for Chorus vs Fireflies for sales teams, priced off both vendor pages on 20 Aug 2026. Compare what a seat really buys, then pick the cheaper fit. August 20, 2026
- AI & Tools Which of these two actually costs you nothing: Fathom or Granola? Fathom vs Granola, checked against both pricing pages on 20 August 2026: what the free plans really include, and which one skips the meeting bot. August 20, 2026
- AI & Tools Fathom vs Fireflies vs Otter: what each bot-free mode gives up Fathom vs Fireflies vs Otter on bot-free capture: what each mode gives up, where the vendors go quiet, and every plan price checked Aug 20, 2026. August 20, 2026
- AI & Tools Tactiq Alternatives: What Happens When the Chrome Extension Runs Out of Room Tactiq is already botless, so the usual pitch does not apply here. It’s a Chrome extension that reads the live […] August 20, 2026