Fireflies.ai
Fireflies
Fireflies is an AI assistant for meetings. Its own pages say it records, transcribes, summarises, searches and analyses conversations, and adds AI Skills, an email assistant and an MCP server.
What Fireflies does
- Records and transcribes meetings through a notetaker bot, a Chrome extension, a mobile app, a desktop app, dialers and uploaded audio or video files.
- Writes summaries, bullet points, action items and custom notes after each meeting.
- Lets you search past conversations and ask AskFred questions about your meetings.
- Tracks talk time, topics and sentiment across conversations.
- Runs AI Skills that extract details, draft follow-up emails and more, and offers an MCP server for tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.
What people use it for
Never lose a decision
Search for what was said on a call months ago, down to the sentence and timestamp.
Send the follow-up
Use AI Skills to draft the follow-up email from the meeting.
Keep tasks and contacts in one place
Collect the tasks that come out of calls so they are not left in notes.
Who it suits
- Teams that run many calls and want a searchable record of them.
- Sales, recruiting and user research teams, which Fireflies names among its AI Skills groups.
Plans and access
Fireflies says you can get started from its homepage. Plans and limits change, so read Fireflies’ current terms. Tell attendees when a notetaker is joining, and check your organisation’s rules on recording.
How to start
- 1Open Fireflies and get started. Open
- 2Connect your calendar so the notetaker can join a meeting you choose.
- 3After the meeting, read the summary and action items and fix anything wrong.
- 4Try one AI Skill on that meeting, such as a follow-up email, before you automate it.
Watch and learn
Videos from Fireflies.ai’s own channel, so you can learn it here. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. More on the Fireflies AI channel.
Fireflies AI · 2026
How to Find Meeting Recordings & Transcripts in Fireflies
Fireflies AI · 2026
How to Set a Default Summary Template in Fireflies
Fireflies AI · 2026
Fireflies Email Assistant: Organize Your Inbox
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Transcription, summaries and action items for meetings.
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Common questions about Fireflies
- What is Fireflies?
- Fireflies is an AI assistant that records, transcribes, summarises and searches your meetings.
- How does Fireflies join a meeting?
- Fireflies says you can invite its notetaker to a live meeting or have it join your calendar meetings, and it also offers a Chrome extension, a mobile app and a desktop app.
- What are AI Skills?
- Fireflies describes AI Skills as ways to extract key details, generate follow-up emails, score candidates and pull other insights from your meetings.
- Can I use Fireflies with other AI tools?
- Fireflies says its MCP Server lets you bring meeting insights into tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.
Where this comes from
Written from the maker’s own pages, read on 2026-10-13. Plans, limits and features change, so the page you land on is the source.
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