We just made our biggest announcement in years: Fred got a promotion. He’s gone from your AI notetaker to your AI teammate.
He still takes notes, but now he also sorts your inbox, keeps you on top of Slack, finds answers across your apps, and helps you get work done in the tools you use every day.
And he’s just getting started. Soon, he’ll take on even more, from automating workflows to scheduling and screen recording.
Why we built the new Fred
When Sam and I started Fireflies, we just wanted to help you stay on top of your meetings. Now we’re dreaming a lot bigger. We want Fred to feel like a teammate you can rely on to do real work.
Why? Partly because most teams are still juggling separate subscriptions for meeting notes, scheduling, email assistants, Slack bots, voice typing, and search. And even with all those tools, you’re still the one connecting the dots.
And partly because you, our users, asked for it. Over the past six months, 140% more people started using Fred for work beyond meeting notes, and he finished nearly 100 million tasks. A lot of what we’re launching came straight from what you were already asking him to do: catching up on email and Slack, finding information, and following up on commitments.
So we’re bringing it all together in Fireflies, under one subscription. Fred already has the context from your meetings and connected apps, so instead of jumping between tools, you can just ask him for what you need, and he’ll help get it done.
What Fred can do for you now
Meeting Notes and Live Assist. Fred still takes notes in Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. If you’d rather not have a bot on the call, the Fireflies Desktop App lets him take notes without joining. You can tailor summaries for sales calls, interviews, or team meetings, and during a call, Live Assist can answer questions, coach you, and translate in real time.
Daily Briefs and Meeting Prep. Every morning, Fred sends you a brief based on your calendar, past meetings, emails, and messages, so you know where you’re needed at a glance. Before a call, he looks up who you’re meeting and their company, reminds you what you talked about last time, and flags anything still open.
Fireflies Talk. Talk instead of type. Voice typing is free and unlimited, and it works in any app. With the new Command Mode, you can also ask Fred out loud to summarize something, find information, or get a task done, like “Find the product roadmap doc we discussed yesterday.”
Email Assistant. Fred sorts your inbox, drafts replies and follow-ups for you to review, and takes care of routine email using rules you set.
Slack Assistant. Fred summarizes busy channels and long threads in Slack and tells you what you missed. You can also tag @Fred to research something, pull together a report, or update other tools without leaving Slack.
Artifacts. Fred turns your conversations into finished work, like docs, decks, dashboards, and reports. Ask him to turn this month’s customer calls into a report on the top feature requests, and he’ll build it from what he already knows.
Knowledge Search in AskFred. Ask Fred about anything your team has discussed in meetings, docs, email, Slack, or your connected apps, and he’ll answer with links back to the original sources. That means no more digging through five different apps to find one thing.
Fireflies Voice Agents. Fred can take calls for your team, too. He can run candidate screenings, sales discovery calls, customer support calls, and user interviews, then send your team a summary and scorecard to review.
Connected Apps. Fred works with your tools, not the other way around. He now connects to 240+ tools, up from 100+, including more than 100 MCP connectors. Fred can use them to update your CRM, manage project tasks, and get work done with what he knows from your meetings, so nobody has to copy and paste context over and over to get things done.
Coming soon
FredBots and AI Skills. You can give Fred ongoing jobs, like keeping an eye on competitors, putting together customer feedback reports, or following up with customers. FredBots use hundreds of AI Skills to research the web, operate a computer, and work across your connected apps. For example, I have one that checks what competitors launched every morning and sends me the top ten things to know in Slack. FredBots start rolling out gradually today. Join the waitlist.
Fireflies Scheduler. A new, free way to book meetings. You get a shareable booking link, and you can ask Fred to schedule, move, or block off time from Fireflies or Slack without double booking. You can set up team booking links, too. Scheduler starts rolling out over the next couple of weeks. Join the waitlist.
Fireflies Clips. A new, free screen recorder in our Chrome extension. Record a quick walkthrough, and Fred turns it into a shareable video with a transcript and notes. He can even turn it into a step-by-step guide or SOP. Clips starts rolling out over the next couple of weeks. Join the waitlist.
Fireflies Fly. You’ve been asking us for phone call notes for years, and software alone couldn’t do it, so we built hardware. Fly is a small device that attaches to the back of your phone and takes notes on phone calls, WhatsApp calls, and in-person conversations. Just make sure everyone knows you’re recording, and follow local recording rules. Fly is expected early next year. Join the waitlist.
You stay in control of your data
The more of your tools Fred works across, the more trust matters. We don’t use your content to train generative AI models, and our vendors are contractually prohibited from doing so. Your data is yours and you can delete it at any time.
Admins decide who can access what and how long data is kept, and Enterprise customers can use Private Storage to keep supported data in their own cloud storage buckets.
As Sam Udotong, my co-founder and our CTO, puts it: “An AI teammate becomes more useful when it understands the context behind your work. But that should never come at the expense of customers losing control. We’ve built Fireflies so teams can decide what Fred can access, where their data is stored and how long it’s retained.”
Learn more at fireflies.ai/security.
Pricing and availability
The new Fireflies experience is live today, and a lot more is rolling out over the next few weeks. FredBots start rolling out gradually today, Scheduler and Clips are coming over the next couple of weeks, Knowledge Base and Fireflies Call are coming over the next few weeks, and Fly is expected early next year.
Fireflies has a free plan that comes with meeting notes and core features like scheduling, voice typing, and screen recording. Paid plans start at $10 per user per month, billed annually, and come with the email and Slack assistants, Voice Agents, FredBots, and connected tools, subject to usage credits.
For more information, watch the keynote here.
