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What is Read?

Read AI is an AI copilot for wherever you work, making your meetings, emails, and messages more productive with summaries, content discovery, and recommendations.

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Read is the ultimate app for hybrid meetings where you can see real-time engagement + sentiment scores, a meeting timer, and talk time all in one place. When the meeting is over, you'll get a comprehensive report with an instant meeting recap, transcript, audio + video playback, and AI-driven recommendations. Real-Time Engagement + Sentiment Scores: Interest and emotions metrics Immersive Mode: AR applied to participant Meeting Timer: Start and end meetings on time Talk Time: Ensure an inclusive conversation Post-Meeting Instant Meeting Recaps: After every meeting (in less than 5 minutes), receive a written meeting summary, list of topics, action items, and key questions. Meeting Report: A robust set of meeting metrics and analytics Transcription: Automated summary, topics, notes, action items, questions Meeting Playback: Audio and video playback w/ navigation based on metrics Recommendations: AI recommendations for fewer, better meetings Smart Scheduler: Automate finding the right time for the next meeting


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Read AI
Year Founded
2021
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Seattle, US
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50 employees on LinkedIn®
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Read AI is an AI copilot for wherever you work, making your meetings, emails, and messages more productive with summaries, content discovery, and recommendations.


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Sarah S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Read AI is my workplace savior"
I go to several meetings a day and have a hard time finding time to write notes and action items. Read is my superhuman tool -- it gives me the fre...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
1.5 out of 5
"Useful but there is a bug in the fact that even after deactivating account it keeps on barging"
Very useful when you cannot pay full attention and have to do things in the background. For MOM it's perfect because it makes summaries of what has...
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Freddy A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best AI notetaker"
Read is really efective on translations on spanish. English translation are perfect. It setup is very easy.
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What do you like best about Read?

We never knew virtual meetings summarization was a possible thing up until we started using read.ai. The main reason we have been having very successful meetings with read.ai is because of the meeting summaries that it offers as they allows us to focus on the main meetings agenda and get to understand the major points that were raised during the meeting. read.ai helps us to get things done in online meetings by helping us take charge of our meetings through highlighting and focusing on the most important parts of the meeting. This way we get to meet the needs that prompted us to schedule and attend the meetings and achieve the goals we had for the meetings. It provides us with very intelligent analytical tools that allows us to understand the performance of the meeting based on the reactions of the audience.

read.ai improves the security of our virtual meetings allowing us to communicate safely and privately. It also assist us in gaining precision and accuracy when scheduling our meetings by use of artificial intelligence and this helps eliminate any human errors that might arise when scheduling like double scheduling. We also benefit alot from the meeting recordings that read.ai offers as they allow us to playback and revisit our meeting sessions in future for referencing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

It was so easy to learn and understand how to make the best use of read.ai without any problems. read.ai has a user-friendly interface with a simple design making it easy to use. We are yet to experience any negative experience with read.ai and so there has been nothing to dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

Online meetings are largely used as mode of information delivery and communication and this calls for us to have a very effective meeting platform that would see us have the most successful meetings. read.ai has been that platform for us and we really acknowledge it for the massive work it has done on our virtual meetings experience. It helps us to give more focus abd attention on the real agenda discussed during the meeting by using AI tools to provide summaries and highlights about the meeting. This allows us to achieve our goals and target that we have when planning for our meetings and to get things done in the meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Read?

The best part is it's very user friendly. You can toggle between users. Connect read.ai zoom/ google meet by giving permission just once.

It's also very insightful compared to other tools.. gives us a lot of details about the call.

The transcript is right there, they have search button to search any words from the call transcript. They also now record calls Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

I think it gets a bit expensive if uou have a lot of users.. especially that now we have to upgrade to their top end plan to get the video playback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping me as a sales lead keep a tab of of my teammates calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Peter O A.
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What do you like best about Read?

As an organization we have strong dedication in ensuring smooth and seamless flow of information amongst ourselves as well as with our customers, clients and stakeholders. We knew we needed to read.ai the very moment a client introduced us into it and told us it capabilities. We implemented it right away and we are very proud that we did. We had a really smooth implementation journey thanks to the very supportive customer support team whom held our hands, listened to us and offered us with the best support services that we could ask for. read.ai is a very capable AI enabled meeting tool and comes loaded with variety of features which helps us have the best and most productive virtual meetings experience. It has a really simple to understand design and all its features are easy to engage with so we never struggle to use it for our meetings. It's flexibility allows it to integrate and work well with other products that we were already using for meeting and also for scheduling.

Read.ai offers very powerful meeting analytical tools which helps us to analyze our meetings so as to understand their performances like audience reactions and trends. Also, it helps record meetings for playbacks where we get to summarize meetings and discover the most crucial points that were being discussed. It uses AI to help pinpoint the most critical parts of the meeting easily and fast. read.ai also makes it easy for us to share meetings recaps directly via email with others especially those might have missed the meeting for one reason or the other. It is very secure and its high end security and data protection features like encryptions keeps our data secure and private. By using read.ai for our meetings, we were able to eliminate the long lasting issues that we were facing when scheduling meetings. read ai also has an amazing and one of a kind speaker coaching tool that gets to send recommendations and coaching metrics to help one get better at presenting during meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

I have had the best experience with read.ai. There has been no issues or setbacks and i cannot find anything to dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

read.ai is helping us fine tune and improve our meetings to make them more productive. It gives us all the tools that we need to ensure we have top performing and efficient meetings. By use of AI technology, read.ai allows us to have smarter meetings which allows us to streamline our communications both externally among teammates and across departments as well as with our customers and clients. It has allows us to gain convenience and accuracy in scheduling meetings. With read.ai, it gets easy for us to summarize our meetings by automatically discovering and extracting notes from the most important topics that have been discussed. With its coaching metrics, read.ai helps us to improve individually on how we speak and give our presentations during meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Read?

Seeing an "Read.ai" listener as a participant is easily recognized and doesn't cause confusion as with other lesser known brands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

The free plan is too limited, would wish to have a company level free plan to actually test out for a company wide business case for implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recording, transcribing and referencing meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gracelyne  F.
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What do you like best about Read?

That i dont have to take notes. The transcription accuracy is amazing.

The summaries, highlights, trailers are all perfect. INtegrates with all major meeting platforms, and it helps us be our productive best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

The effort taken to remove it from our Google accoutn afterwards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

The AI-powered transcription capabilities ensure that even the fastest-paced discussions are transcribed with precision, leaving no room for error. This has significantly reduced the time and effort spent on reviewing and editing notes after the meeting, allowing me to focus my energy on more strategic tasks.I appreciate the ability to easily search, edit, and organize my notes according to specific topics or keywords. This level of organization has greatly improved my ability to retrieve and reference information, ultimately enhancing my productivity and decision-making process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Read?

Very useful when you cannot pay full attention and have to do things in the background. For MOM it's perfect because it makes summaries of what has happened, action items who has said what etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

It keeps on barging into meetings even after deactivating my account, after I removed it from getting into meetings automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me with multitasking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mona J.
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What do you like best about Read?

I like the meeting summaries and action points post the meeting. I like that it also automaticaaly 'joins' the meeting - but that can also be a problem sometimes. Read.ai is generally easy to use after you install it. After download, it easily integrated and automatically joined my meetings.

I used it frequently on my meetings but had to disuse it for meetings where folks were uncomfortable having AI attend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

What I dislike most about it is that it automatically joins meetings. Depending on what kind of meeting and what is being discussed, some folks might be uncomfortable having AI on the meeting especailly if they are unfamiliar with read.ai.

Sometimes, read.ai failed to join some meetings, I couldn't explain why. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

Read.ai is enabling me solve the problem o taking long meeting notes. However, while i still take notes on highlights, Read.ai helps with taking notes on points that are not so important while I also confirm and compare my notes with Read.ai. I previously worked in energy policy and had to attend multiple trade association meetings and take a lot of notes so Read.ai was very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul K.
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What do you like best about Read?

It has an OK call note taker and call summary is decent. Nothing much to add as their customer service is not ready to listen to their customers. They dont have the motivation to improve their platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

1. The support team is the worst. We asked them to get on a call with us so we can address our challenges and they asked us to quite their platform as they cant meet out requirements. They did not even listen to our requirement.

2. They dont respond to my support messages. We had to send repeated support requests in order to get response from them.

3. I reached out to the company CEO over a week ago over Linkedin to tell him about our expreince and he didnt even care to respond.

4. Their APIs break all the time.

5. It admits into your meetings without asking for acceptance. When we remove it, there is no way to bring it back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

They did not solve any problem for us. We explored this platform as it is cheaper that most. However, we found out that more expensive platforms really deserve more money as they want to listen to their customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nancy Y.
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What do you like best about Read?

Flexibility to review highlights or full recap of meetings. Good transcriptions. Nice AI generated follow up and task lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

Sometimes does not join meetings. Inviting in bot is a little frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating meeting notes and sunsets as well identifying attendee participation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shekhar L.
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What do you like best about Read?

It is very user friendly, accurate and efficient when it comes to recording meetings and generating transcripts. I have used it quite a few time and its really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Read?

Spelling mistakes in transcripts but that is how AI works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Read solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making MOMs (moments of meetings) - I can make MOMs faster using transcripts and listen to some points if I forget any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.