tl;dv

What it is

tl;dv is an AI meeting recorder for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. A bot joins the call, records and transcribes it in 30+ languages, writes AI notes against a template, and pushes those notes into HubSpot or Salesforce. It sits in the same category as Fathom and Fireflies, with one tilt: the Business tier sells multi-meeting reporting — scheduled AI reports across many calls, sales-playbook monitoring, objection tracking — that the cheaper notetakers leave to a revenue-intelligence platform. Data is hosted in the EU, and the Pro tier and up ship an MCP server, an API, and webhooks.

The security question comes first

Any evaluation of tl;dv in 2026 starts with the incident. In January 2026 an independent researcher reported that a missing tenant-isolation rule in tl;dv’s Firestore database let any logged-in user query meeting records belonging to every other customer: 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains. The exposed records held meeting IDs, creator and participant email addresses, and live conference links. To prove it, the researcher joined two meetings in progress uninvited. The write-up went public in August 2026 and reached the front page of Hacker News.

The two sides tell it differently. The researcher says the report went unanswered for six months. tl;dv says there were two separate vulnerabilities: the first was fixed, with a third-party firm verifying the fix; the second was patched within 24 hours of discovery; and Firebase has since been removed from its infrastructure. tl;dv also states that no recordings, transcripts, AI notes, passwords, or billing data were reachable. Both accounts agree that metadata and live meeting links were exposed for months.

What the incident means for a buyer: the product’s capture and notes are competent, but the vendor’s disclosure handling is now part of the product. Treat it as a security-review item to clear, not a footnote.

Pricing reality

Per seat per month, USD, monthly / annual, checked 2026-10-01 at tldv.io/app/pricing.

• Free — $0. Unlimited recording and transcription. AI notes on your first 10 meetings only, for the lifetime of the account; after that, notes cover just the first 10 minutes of each call. Recordings are deleted after 3 months.
• Pro — $29 / $18. Unlimited AI notes and single-meeting Ask AI, custom note templates, global transcript search, unlimited storage, native HubSpot and Salesforce sync, plus the MCP server, API, and webhooks.
• Business — $39 / $29. Multi-meeting AI insights, scheduled AI reports, playbook monitoring, objection handling, and team-wide integrations and automations.
• Enterprise — quote-only. SCIM, custom SSO, privately hosted AI, organization activity logs, optional usage-based pricing.

The free tier is a trial wearing a free tier’s label. Ten AI-noted meetings is about one week for a working AE, and the 3-month deletion means nobody builds a call archive on it.

The real budget line is Business. A 10-rep team pays $3,480 a year on Business annual, against $2,160 on Pro annual — the $1,320 difference buys the cross-call reporting that is the reason to pick tl;dv over Fathom. If nobody will read the scheduled reports, buy Pro or buy something else.

Best for

RevOps and CS leaders at EU-based or EU-selling teams of 5-30 reps who want CRM writeback plus cross-call reporting — “which objections came up across this quarter’s demos” — without a Gong contract, and who need data residency in the EU.

Do not use it if your security review weights vendor disclosure history, if IT requires SSO below an enterprise quote, or if you need forecasting and deal-risk scoring. tl;dv has none of the forecasting layer, and SSO sits only on Enterprise.

Versus the alternatives

• Fireflies and Otter.ai — the two highest-volume notetakers by seat count. Fireflies Business is $19 a seat annually against tl;dv’s $29, with conversation intelligence included but agentic features metered on AI credits. Pick Fireflies when price per seat decides; pick tl;dv when you want flat pricing on cross-call reports and EU hosting. Pick Otter when transcription and a searchable archive are the entire requirement.
• Fathom — pick it when a free tier has to carry real usage. Fathom Free has no AI-notes ceiling; tl;dv Free stops at 10 meetings. Fathom has no multi-meeting playbook reporting, and caps CRM sync at 3 users per domain below Enterprise; tl;dv documents no such cap.
• Granola — the fastest-growing entrant, and bot-free. Pick it when a visible recording bot is the problem, or when the incident above rules out any cloud bot joining external calls.
• Gong — pick it when the forecast and a coaching program are the deliverable and the budget is a platform contract, not a per-seat line.

Watch-outs

• The 2026 disclosure record. Guard: before rollout, ask tl;dv in writing for the third-party verification of the fix, its current SOC 2 report, and its disclosure-response SLA. If your security team won’t sign off on those, stop the evaluation there.
• Meeting links are the asset at risk. The exposure was live conference links, not recordings. Guard: require waiting rooms or authenticated join on Zoom, Meet, and Teams for customer calls, whatever notetaker you pick.
• Free-tier data deletion. Guard: if a team piloted on Free, export what matters before the 3-month deletion. tl;dv only allows download in the 4 weeks before deletion, even after an upgrade to Pro.
• Bot-on-every-call consent. Guard: set a recording-consent policy for two-party-consent jurisdictions and the EU before seats spread, and configure which calendar events the bot auto-joins.