How does the CEO of OTTER.AI pay the company to be more than just a meeting writer

The CEO of OTTER.AI, Sam Liang, is not satisfied with watching and using it, as just a meeting meeting. Liang wants OTTER.AI an expected source of institutions and that a new set of products that were released on Tuesday is the first step in this development.

AI Assant Assistant, which is based on Silicon Valley, has released a new set of tools for institutions designed to better integrate data than meetings in another workflow by converting this information to the central knowledge base. The goal is to develop OTER’s business by helping companies get more meetings.

The OTER’s new product suite includes an application programming interface that allows users to build dedicated integration with platforms such as Jira and Hubspot, and a MCP server – which connects OTER data for users outer AI models – and the new Amnesty International who can search for notes or meeting offers for the company.

Liang told Techcrunch that it is the next stage of OTTER.

“We are developing from the Notetaker meeting to the base of the corporate meeting,” said Liang. “This is a regime record for conversations. Companies can help expand their growth and pay the value of measurable businesses.”

When OTER was founded in 2016, there were a few social copies companies – a leap far from today. The artificial intelligence boom that started in 2022 led to an increase in startups such as Granola or Circleback. Even the older players, like Al -Yarra, watched a Increase in interest.

Liang argues that this transition put OTER in a separate section of its former peers.

The meetings are the place where the majority of the company’s knowledge is stored, in the opinion of Liang, whether it is notes from customer sales call or discussions on the marketing strategy. But without a central place for these meeting notes, this information can only help much.

“Often, inefficiency occurs due to information silos,” said Liang. “No one knows the team what the other team does, and it is believed that this has been planned a month ago. Often the plan changes, but not everyone is informed. So, the idea is to create a system permission so that you know that most (non -secret) information is widely shared.”

Each meeting with OTER will not be added directly to the knowledge base at the company level, and users can choose to restrict the arrival of the meeting notes for the records that deal with sensitive information.

The privacy of the employee and information is still a concern despite access controls. Even if the meeting is on a neutral topic, the otter copies choose to talk and the small gossip that occurs before and after the meetings, which may contain gossip or information for participants only to hear it.

Otter is also a topic The semester case in August It claims that the company was registering private conversations without the user’s approval and using this information to train its copy services.

Liang said that although he could not comment on the lawsuit specifically, this is not a problem with OTER, and that when looking at the largest image, access to information is better.

“If they accuse us, they can accuse everyone, and all the tools I heard about doing the meeting notes,” said Liang. “My view is that we are on the right side of history. We are building this new Amnesty International Revolution. If you want to help artificial intelligence, you need to put artificial intelligence in meetings.”