For Teams · 2026-06-02

What we decided in that meeting

There is a specific kind of meeting that gets recorded because someone said “let’s record it for the team,” and then nobody ever opens it again. Every team has hundreds of hours of these. All-hands. Quarterly reviews. Customer onboarding calls. Sales kickoffs. They sit in a Drive folder. Storage cost goes up; nothing else happens.

The video is not the asset. The decisions inside it are.

You see this whenever someone two months later asks “what did we actually agree about the Q3 launch date?” and the three options are: ignore the question, guess, or find someone whose memory you trust. None of those are great. The fourth option is the recording, but nobody is going to watch a forty-five minute all-hands to find one sentence.

So Scrubless. Type the question, get the moment.

That’s the simple use. The one that flips people is the cross-meeting one. Open a year of recordings, type “what we’ve said about hiring,” and you get back a small ranked list across many calls. Twenty seconds in March, a longer thread in June, a brief return to the topic in September. You see the arc of how a topic shifted over time without watching anything end-to-end. You read the transcripts of the moments that matter, click into the ones that don’t read clearly out of context.

This is the part where someone usually asks, “can Otter do that?” Otter searches transcripts in one meeting at a time. Scrubless searches the meeting and across meetings, on what was said and what was on screen. The screen part matters more than you’d think. The slide nobody read aloud is searchable. “The slide about Q3 numbers.” You get the second the slide appeared.

The thing it doesn’t do is sit in your calls. You drop the recordings in a folder yourself. That’s intentional. If you’ve ever had a recording-bot get kicked out of an exec meeting and felt the resulting silence, you know why.