Meeting Bot Engineering Cheat Sheet

One page: the five-stage bot anatomy (Join, Capture, Recognise, Understand, Deliver), the four products at a glance (Otter / Fireflies / Fathom / Supernormal with 2026 pricing), the three build paths (rent a capture API, native platform API, extend your own pipeline) with the Recall.ai cost math, and the consent checkpoints (EU AI Act Article 50, all-party-consent states, voiceprint/BIPA, retention).

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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Real-Time Pipelines and Agents to Serving, Cost, Compliance, and Verticals

This meeting bot cheat sheet breaks a bot into join, capture, recognise, understand and deliver, compares Otter, Fireflies, Fathom and Supernormal, and works the Recall.ai cost math. Volume 7 covers this in detail: real-time pipelines in calls, agents, serving cost per stream-hour and regulation including the EU AI Act. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.

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