Calendly, the scheduling and meeting-booking company, has launched an AI note-taking product, entering an increasingly crowded market of tools that record, transcribe and summarise meetings. The move reflects a broader push across workplace software firms to use AI not just to capture meeting content but to automate the tasks that follow, such as drafting action items and follow-up emails.

Calendly's note-taker joins calls, records audio and video, transcribes them, and generates summaries, action items and draft emails; the company is also trialling a Granola-style feature that transcribes via system audio. It plans to launch an AI assistant called Callie, which will use Calendly's scheduling data to book meetings, check availability and pull context from past sessions. CEO Tope Awotona said the focus is on automating post-meeting workflows for sales and marketing staff, despite fierce competition from rivals including Granola, Fireflies, Read AI, Otter, Fathom, Notion and ClickUp. Amid privacy concerns dogging some competitors, Calendly says its tool will notify all participants, via chat message and pre-meeting alerts, that a call is being recorded, and allow anyone to remove it from the conversation.