FATHOM LAUNCHES BOT-LESS MEETING MODE

The update expands Fathom's flexibility in how it captures and processes meeting data. Users can now record meetings without deploying a bot participant, addressing privacy and integration concerns that have made bot-free solutions increasingly popular. The three-mode approach allows teams to select the format best suited to their workflow. Video mode captures full meeting context, audio-only reduces bandwidth requirements, and transcription mode focuses purely on capturing spoken content. Granola has gained traction by offering bot-less meeting recording as its primary feature. Fathom's addition of this capability signals the growing market demand for less intrusive meeting documentation tools. Both platforms compete in the space of AI-powered meeting notes and summaries, though their approaches differ on whether bots should be visible participants in calls. The move positions Fathom to retain users concerned about bot visibility while maintaining its core transcription and summarization features.