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tl;dv
AI meeting notetaker from Aachen, Germany that records Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams calls, writes notes, updates the CRM, and reports trends across meetings.
Sales, customer success, and product teams in Europe or global companies that want meeting notes, CRM logging, and cross-call insights at a low seat price.
Enterprises needing deep revenue intelligence and forecasting, or teams that want an on-device recorder with no meeting bot.
Verdict
tl;dv is a meeting intelligence company in Aachen, Germany, founded in 2020 by Raphael Allstadt, Carlo Thissen, and Allan Bettarel. Its notetaker records and transcribes calls on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams in 30+ languages, writes AI summaries in custom formats, logs outcomes to the CRM, drafts follow-up emails, and answers questions across many meetings. It matters because most meeting knowledge never leaves the call, and tl;dv makes it searchable for the whole team at a price small teams can afford.
Score Breakdown
How tl;dv scores in the categories that matter to its buyers.
Pricing
tl;dv has a free plan and two paid seat plans, discounted up to 40% when billed annually.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Unlimited recordings and transcription; 10 meetings with AI notes |
| Pro | $18 per seat / month, billed annually | Unlimited AI notes, custom templates, 5,000+ integrations, API |
| Business | $29 per seat / month, billed annually | Meeting insights automation at scale, no usage-based AI fees |
The Field at a Glance
How tl;dv compares with other AI meeting assistants vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
tl;dv scores 7.7 in AI meeting assistants, under Fireflies.ai (8.0) and Avoma (7.9), and ahead of Fathom (7.6). Relative cost lands lower for this subcategory.
Use-case matrix
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sales call notes and CRM logging | Strong | Logs call notes and CRM outcomes after each call. |
| Cross-meeting trend reports | Strong | AI reports aggregate insights across many calls. |
| Multilingual teams | Strong | Transcription in 30+ languages. |
| EU privacy requirements | Strong | Made in Germany, GDPR and SOC 2. |
| Forecasting and deal scoring | Mixed | Sales coaching exists, but it is not a full revenue platform. |
| Heavy AI use on the free plan | Weak | Free AI notes stop after 10 meetings. |
Who it’s for
Good fit
- Sales and CS teams
- Product managers mining customer calls
- European companies
Poor fit
- Enterprise revenue operations
- Teams banning meeting bots
- In-person meeting capture
Review Excerpts
Below are excerpts from public reviews. Our team scoured public reviews, forums, and chat rooms to get a balanced view of customers' experience with this company. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch were excluded.
“tl;dv is essential to back up and sell product decisions with emotional evidence from every Sales, Customer, and research meetings within Zapier.”
The free plan includes unlimited video recordings and unlimited transcription in 30+ languages with no credit card, and tl;dv says it is trusted by more than 2 million users.
AI features on the free plan are capped at 10 meetings with AI notes and 10 Ask AI queries, so regular users need the $18 Pro seat for unlimited AI notes.
Company Facts
- Founded
- 2020 (CB Insights)
- Headquarters
- Aachen, Germany (CB Insights)
- Total funding raised
- $5.47M (CB Insights)
- Key investors
- Seedcamp, Shilling VC, Kanoar Ventures, MSM, another.vc (CB Insights)
- Website
- tldv.io
Key Leadership
Raphael Allstadt
Co-founder and CEO
Methodology
This page is an independent evaluation of tl;dv for buyers comparing options in ai meeting assistants. AI Industry Reviews accepts no sponsorships, advertising, or pay-for-placement fees. tl;dv did not pay for this review.
What we scored
The headline number is an Overall Score on a 0-10 scale. Eight criteria sit under it in two groups.
- Buyer outcomes (for ai meeting assistants)
- Free plan value
- Multi-meeting insights
- CRM and workflow integrations
- Revenue intelligence depth
- Company & commercial
- Innovation & product leadership
- Project management & communication
- Pricing
- Contract fairness
Pricing measures whether the price looks fair for the value delivered, including packaging and renewal friction that show up in real buying cycles.
Score Composition
| Input | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 40% | A proprietary read of what practitioners say about likes, complaints, and day-to-day use, including public review sites, forums, and private chat rooms. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch are out of scope. |
| Product | 35% | Hands-on look at screens and workflows. |
| Pricing | 15% | Whether the price looks fair for what you get. |
| Docs & training | 10% | Docs, tutorials, and training material. |
How we balanced the evidence
The Overall Score is the simple average of the eight criteria. Recommendation language follows that score and the fit pattern described above.
Scope
tl;dv is graded here as ai meeting assistants. Criteria scores can move as more review volume and product checks are added.