One outcome — your meetings, written down and searchable. A few honest paths to it.
A meeting can reach your vault three ways, and which one fits depends on where you meet, your plan, and whether you want the words or the whole recording. The cheapest path that can actually deliver is always the one to prefer — so here it is as a short decision, not a manual.
Answer two or three questions
Start with what you want out of the meeting, then where it happens. Each path ends with what to connect — and 1Presence works the rest out from there.
What do you want out of the meeting?
This is the first fork — the words, or the recording itself.
Video or just the words — and who pays
Two forks shape every answer above. The first is what you want: just the transcript, or the full recording. A transcript can often come for free, because your meeting tool already wrote one and 1Presence simply reads it. A recording is different — the only reliable way to land the video file in your vault is to have 1Presence's recorder in the call, so video is always the metered path.
The second is whether a transcript even exists to read. Google Meet and Microsoft Teams make their own — but only on the right plan, and only when someone turned transcription on in the call. When that is true, it is free and nothing joins your meeting. When it is not — a free account, transcription left off, Zoom today — the recorder steps in, billed by the minute. We always pick the cheapest path that can actually deliver, and tell you plainly which one it was.
The honest version
Free when your platform makes the transcript. Metered when it can't.
Connect Google Meet (Workspace) or Microsoft Teams and their transcripts cost nothing to bring in. A personal Google account on the paid Gemini plan works too — read from your Drive. Everything else — free accounts, Zoom for now, any call with no transcript — the recorder captures at $0.55 an hour. Never a blanket "free", never a surprise charge.
Just ask — once it is connected
With the right connection in place, you never touch a settings page. You talk, and it happens:
It sends the recorder, tells you it has joined, and files the transcript and summary when the call ends.
It looks across every place your meetings are kept — its own recordings, your Google Meet transcripts, Read AI, Plaud — and lists them in one place.
It reads the transcript your meeting made and hands back a clean summary — no bot, no cost.
It answers from what was actually said, with the context around the decision.
Go deeper
The Meeting Recorder
How the recorder joins, what it costs, auto-join, and the controls that keep you in charge of which calls are kept.
Read AI
Already run a notetaker? Connect it and 1Presence pulls every transcript, summary and action item — free.
Plaud
For the conversations a meeting bot can't join — in person and on the phone, captured on your device.
Start a conversation.
Free to try. No credit card. Just you and your agent.
Works on any device. Takes 60 seconds to start.