If you’re building a product and want to integrate meeting recordings, transcripts, or call intelligence – you can’t just embed someone else’s meeting bot widget.
Platforms like Fireflies.ai or Granola are great for individual users, but they’re not APIs. They’re fully featured SaaS apps with UIs, branding, and user flows you can’t change. Using them to integrate recordings & transcripts into your product is like trying to use Calendly when what you really needed was a scheduling API (good thing we make those too!).
Nylas Notetaker is the developer-first API to embed meeting bot functionality directly into your product. Spin up a bot, record any call on Meets, Teams, and Zoom, and receive transcripts, audio, and video in your backend – all with just a few lines of code.
✅ You want full control.
Name the bot. Customize the consent message. Decide when and how it joins. With Nylas, you own the UX.
✅ You’re scaling.
When your launch blows up on Product Hunt, you’ll need infrastructure that handles millions of requests, not just a handful of user logins. Nylas has handled billions of API calls – and our Notetaker API scales with your usage.
✅ You want predictable costs.
Platform pricing often charges per user. Nylas charges per hour of actual recording – making it affordable at scale and aligned with your growth.
✅ You’re building SaaS, not duct-taping tools.
You don’t need a UI. You are the UI. That’s the difference between an API and a product pretending to be one.
❌ You’re building an internal tool for 3 people.
A consumer tool like Fireflies.ai might be simpler, but you’ll lose flexibility and overpay once you scale.
❌ You’re just recording your own meetings.
The Nylas Notetaker API can still work here – and it’s a great weekend project with Replit, Vercel’s v0, Lovable, or your favorite AI builder. But if you’re not into building, a plug-and-play tool might be easier.
❌ You’re excited to spend hours wrangling UI-based SaaS into your backend.
Can you hack it together with Zapier and webhook glue? Sure. Should you? Probably not.
If you’re a developer building a product – not just recording meetings – you need an API, not another SaaS tool.
Nick is our Product Manager for the Notetaker and calendar products at Nylas. Hailing from New Zealand and based in Chicago, IL, Nick spends his free time hiking, cooking pasta, and riding his spin bike.