Fireflies.ai was founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong, who met at MIT. Based in San Francisco, the company built an AI assistant named Fred that joins your meetings, records them, and creates searchable transcripts with summaries.
The product works across all major video conferencing platforms — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and others. After each meeting, Fireflies generates a recap with action items, questions asked, and key topics discussed. Users can search across all their past meetings using keywords, making it easy to find that one thing someone said three months ago.
Fireflies goes deeper than basic transcription with its conversation intelligence features. It tracks talk-to-listen ratios, sentiment, monologue detection, and question frequency. Sales teams use these analytics to coach reps and review deals. The platform integrates with CRMs, project management tools, and collaboration apps to push meeting insights where teams already work.
The company offers a generous free tier that includes limited transcription credits, which has helped it attract over 300,000 organizations. Paid plans unlock unlimited storage, advanced analytics, and admin controls.
Fireflies has stayed focused on being the best meeting data layer rather than expanding into project management or other adjacent areas. The API allows developers to build custom workflows on top of meeting data, which has opened up use cases in healthcare, legal, and recruiting.
