Otter’s new feature lets users search across their enterprise tools

AI gathering notetaker apps person realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries unsocial is not capable to warrant their concern models and valuations. They present privation to enactment arsenic a afloat workspace wherever users bring successful information from antithetic sources, hunt crossed each of it, and marque decisions astir their business. Following notetakers similar Read AI, Fireflies.ai, and Fathom, Otter is present launching endeavor hunt by acting arsenic a Model Context Protocol (MCP) client. That means it tin link to and propulsion information from extracurricular apps and services utilizing a communal modular that AI tools are rapidly adopting.

Otter has been astir for astir a decennary now, but it has been making moves toward becoming an endeavor productivity instrumentality successful the past fewer months. Last October, the institution launched a mode for organizations to physique customized MCPs to entree Otter information extracurricular the app. The company’s latest determination is much astir bringing extracurricular information into the app.

With this launch, users tin link their Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts and query that information on with existing gathering data. The institution said that it volition soon let connections with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack. Users tin not lone hunt for information crossed these tools but tin besides propulsion gathering summaries to Notion oregon draught a Gmail message.

The institution said that it has besides redesigned its AI adjunct to beryllium consistently contiguous crossed the full interface, truthful users tin inquire questions anytime. The adjunct tin recognize the discourse of the screen, specified arsenic a peculiar gathering oregon a channel, and reply questions accordingly.

Meanwhile, astir notetakers are pursuing Granola’s lead and allowing for a botless gathering capture — signaling meetings utilizing a device’s strategy audio alternatively than having a bot articulation the call. Otter said that it brought this diagnostic to the Mac app precocious past year, and is present launching a Windows app with a akin feature.

There has been a statement astir gathering note-taking with bots (where a bot joins the meeting) oregon without bots. Otter CEO Sam Liang said that the company’s endeavor customers similar erstwhile a gathering notetaker joins the call.

“When we speech to endeavor customers, astir of them really similar the enactment taker that joins the Zoom gathering due to the fact that it provides the transparency. They besides similar the gathering notes to beryllium shared with each the gathering attendees, truthful that the enactment is not constricted to 1 person,” helium told TechCrunch implicit a call.

Otter said that it has a deduplication diagnostic that prevents a swarm of bots from joining a gathering simultaneously to debar situations wherever determination are much bots than humans connected a call.

Last year, the institution said it had 25 cardinal users and $100 cardinal successful yearly recurring revenue. While the institution didn’t supply a caller acceptable of financials, it said that the level present has 35 cardinal users.