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Task Automationby Fellow★ 4.3

Fellow

Privacy-focused AI meeting assistant with agendas, shared notes, action items and executive-grade collaboration features.

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Safety & Trust

Delv Safety Grade: C

Score 58/100 · assessed 2026-04-18

Maintainer65
Permissions55
Supply chain40
Transparency35
Incidents100

Fellow is a commercial meeting assistant from Fellow Insights Inc., a venture-backed Canadian company founded in 2017. The service integrates with calendar systems and video platforms to provide AI-powered meeting notes, agendas and action items. As a proprietary SaaS platform with no open source components or public repository, transparency is limited to marketing materials and privacy policies. The service requires broad permissions including calendar access, meeting content recording, and integration with workplace tools like Slack and project management systems. Supply chain assessment is constrained by the closed-source nature and lack of verifiable distribution channels beyond direct web signup. The company claims privacy focus and SOC 2 compliance, but independent verification is not possible. No known security incidents, though the service handles sensitive meeting data and workplace communications.

Green flags

  • Established company (2017) with venture funding and professional presence
  • Claims SOC 2 Type II compliance and privacy-focused architecture
  • No known security incidents or data breaches in public record
  • Clear pricing model and professional documentation available

Red flags

  • No public repository or open source code for independent security review
  • Closed-source SaaS requires trust in vendor's security practices
  • Broad permissions across calendar, meetings, and workplace integrations
  • Limited transparency into AI model usage and data handling practices
  • No verifiable supply chain or package distribution method

Permissions requested

Outbound networkIdentity readSend messagesRead messagesExternal LLM call
Assessed by Delv Editorial using public metadata. Grades are advisory and update as the ecosystem changes. They do not replace your own review of permissions and code before granting an agent access to sensitive systems.

Pricing

FREEMIUM — Free tier, paid from $7/mo

Platforms

webmobile

Review

Fellow sits in the awkward space between a note-taking app and a proper autonomous agent. It records meetings, generates summaries, and extracts action items, but the 'AI' layer is more assistant than agent. You still drive the agenda, assign tasks manually, and decide what gets shared. The autonomy is narrow: it transcribes, it suggests talking points based on past meetings, and it nudges you when action items go stale. That's useful, but it's not planning your week or rescheduling calls. Where it shines is executive collaboration. The shared agenda feature actually works. Before a recurring one-on-one, both parties can drop topics into a living doc. Fellow surfaces unresolved items from last time, flags overdue actions, and keeps a searchable history. I've used it for quarterly check-ins with direct reports, and the continuity is genuinely helpful. You're not starting from scratch every quarter. The AI notes are competent but not magical. They catch decisions and next steps reliably, but the summaries lean generic. If someone says 'we need to revisit pricing by end of Q2,' Fellow will log it. If the conversation meanders through three half-baked ideas, the summary will list all three without ranking urgency. You still need to edit. Failure mode: it's overkill for ad-hoc calls. If you're hopping on a quick sync, the overhead of opening Fellow, starting a recording, and tagging attendees feels like friction. It's built for recurring meetings with structure, not spontaneous problem-solving. Also, the free tier caps you at 10 transcriptions per month, which runs out fast if you're in back-to-back calls. Compared to Otter.ai, Fellow has better task-tracking and team features but weaker transcription accuracy. Compared to Fireflies, it's more opinionated about workflow (agendas, recurring templates) but less flexible for one-off use. If you run a lot of structured meetings and want a single source of truth for decisions, Fellow earns its place. If you just need transcripts, it's overengineered. The privacy angle is real. Data stays encrypted, and you can self-host if you're paranoid. For teams handling sensitive client work, that matters. For everyone else, it's table stakes.
Verdict

Worth paying for if you run recurring one-on-ones or leadership meetings and need continuity across sessions. Skip it if your meetings are mostly ad-hoc or you just want transcripts without the workflow overhead.

Good at

  • Shared agendas with persistent history across recurring meetings
  • Action-item tracking that actually surfaces overdue tasks
  • Privacy-first architecture with optional self-hosting
  • Competent at extracting decisions and next steps from transcripts
  • Integrates with Slack, Zoom, and calendar tools without fuss

Watch out

  • Free tier caps at 10 transcriptions per month, burns fast
  • Overkill for ad-hoc or spontaneous calls
  • AI summaries lean generic, still need manual editing
  • Not truly autonomous, you drive the agenda and task assignment
  • Transcription accuracy trails Otter.ai in noisy environments

Use cases

  • meeting agendas
  • AI notes
  • action-item tracking