Fellow
Agendas, notes, action items, recordings, and meeting analytics
The visible meeting management loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. Fellow earns its keep through capture, integrations, reliability, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.
Build verification: not recorded. How we judge buildability
What you give up
- live multi-speaker accuracy
- calendar and CRM integrations
- cross-call team analytics
- meeting-bot auto-join
Why people still pay
Fellow: Customers pay for automatic capture, dependable speaker handling, search across calls, and notes arriving without manual file wrangling.
Your build guide
The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.
Before you start
- A supported Node release, PostgreSQL, HTTPS for a shared deployment, and a backup destination. Begin with one workspace and explicit owner/member permissions.
- Implementation components: Next.js App Router and TypeScript for server-rendered pages and validated mutations. PostgreSQL with Drizzle migrations; Better Auth sessions for a small private workspace.
- Scope boundary: live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations
Use these project rules and optional skill references alongside the prompt. Review each skill before adding it to your agent; the AGENTS.md export includes the same guidance.
Optional external skill: vercel-react-best-practices — Improve React and Next.js data fetching, rendering, bundle size and server performance. Review its instructions and compatibility before use; it does not grant deployment, data-access or publication permission.
Optional external skill: supabase-postgres-best-practices — Review PostgreSQL schemas, queries, indexes, pooling, concurrency and row-level security. Review its instructions and compatibility before use; it does not grant deployment, data-access or publication permission.
Optional external skill: web-design-guidelines — Review web interfaces for accessibility, keyboard focus, forms, navigation and interaction quality. Review its instructions and compatibility before use; it does not grant deployment, data-access or publication permission.
Project rule — data model: meeting series, dated agendas, discussion sections, decisions, action owners and completion history
Project rule — preserve this invariant: Carried actions keep their original ID and owner; model suggestions cannot assign an absent person or invent a decision.
Project rule — acceptance evidence: Roll an unfinished action through two meetings and show one task with three references; rejecting a transcript summary leaves the authored notes unchanged.
Implementation plan
Phase 1
Scope and fixtures. Implement this bounded workflow: Prepare a recurring meeting agenda, take notes against its items and carry unfinished actions into the next meeting. Optionally attach a consented transcript and review a source-linked summary. Record prerequisites, select representative user-owned fixtures and document the unsupported features: live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations
Phase 2
Durable model. Model meeting series, dated agendas, discussion sections, decisions, action owners and completion history Add migrations or a versioned document format, explicit validation, stable IDs and a visible import-error report. Preserve this rule: Carried actions keep their original ID and owner; model suggestions cannot assign an absent person or invent a decision.
Phase 3
Complete the first useful path. Implement the workflow's input, review and output interface, with clear controls and explicit empty/error states. Commit related database changes in one transaction. Use version checks for competing edits and an outbox for external notifications; retry delivery independently of saving the record.
Phase 4
Permissions and integration failure. Authorize every record read and mutation on the server using its workspace membership; validate payloads, protect mutations against CSRF, and escape user-authored HTML. Request integration credentials and permissions only for the enabled feature; show a disconnected state instead of mock results.
Phase 5
Portable handoff. Export versioned JSON plus attachments and a readable CSV summary. Restore into a separate database and compare record IDs and attachment checksums before switching. Include setup, operating limits, fixture walkthrough and shutdown/restart instructions in the README.
Phase 6
Acceptance scenarios. Roll an unfinished action through two meetings and show one task with three references; rejecting a transcript summary leaves the authored notes unchanged. Repeat the workflow after restart and with a denied permission or unavailable dependency; show recoverable failure rather than a success placeholder.
WORKING SLICE Prepare a recurring meeting agenda, take notes against its items and carry unfinished actions into the next meeting. Optionally attach a consented transcript and review a source-linked summary. Build this scoped Fellow-inspired workflow with a documented data model and visible failure states. Architecture - Next.js App Router and TypeScript for server-rendered pages and validated mutations. - PostgreSQL with Drizzle migrations; Better Auth sessions for a small private workspace. Prerequisites and limits A supported Node release, PostgreSQL, HTTPS for a shared deployment, and a backup destination. Begin with one workspace and explicit owner/member permissions. Outside this release: live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations Data model and correctness meeting series, dated agendas, discussion sections, decisions, action owners and completion history Invariant: Carried actions keep their original ID and owner; model suggestions cannot assign an absent person or invent a decision. Commit related database changes in one transaction. Use version checks for competing edits and an outbox for external notifications; retry delivery independently of saving the record. Security and privacy Authorize every record read and mutation on the server using its workspace membership; validate payloads, protect mutations against CSRF, and escape user-authored HTML. Recovery and export Export versioned JSON plus attachments and a readable CSV summary. Restore into a separate database and compare record IDs and attachment checksums before switching. Implementation order 1. Phase 1 — Scope and fixtures. Implement this bounded workflow: Prepare a recurring meeting agenda, take notes against its items and carry unfinished actions into the next meeting. Optionally attach a consented transcript and review a source-linked summary. Record prerequisites, select representative user-owned fixtures and document the unsupported features: live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations 2. Phase 2 — Durable model. Model meeting series, dated agendas, discussion sections, decisions, action owners and completion history Add migrations or a versioned document format, explicit validation, stable IDs and a visible import-error report. Preserve this rule: Carried actions keep their original ID and owner; model suggestions cannot assign an absent person or invent a decision. 3. Phase 3 — Complete the first useful path. Implement the workflow's input, review and output interface, with clear controls and explicit empty/error states. Commit related database changes in one transaction. Use version checks for competing edits and an outbox for external notifications; retry delivery independently of saving the record. 4. Phase 4 — Permissions and integration failure. Authorize every record read and mutation on the server using its workspace membership; validate payloads, protect mutations against CSRF, and escape user-authored HTML. Request integration credentials and permissions only for the enabled feature; show a disconnected state instead of mock results. 5. Phase 5 — Portable handoff. Export versioned JSON plus attachments and a readable CSV summary. Restore into a separate database and compare record IDs and attachment checksums before switching. Include setup, operating limits, fixture walkthrough and shutdown/restart instructions in the README. 6. Phase 6 — Acceptance scenarios. Roll an unfinished action through two meetings and show one task with three references; rejecting a transcript summary leaves the authored notes unchanged. Repeat the workflow after restart and with a denied permission or unavailable dependency; show recoverable failure rather than a success placeholder. Acceptance Roll an unfinished action through two meetings and show one task with three references; rejecting a transcript summary leaves the authored notes unchanged. Use real source data or clearly labeled fixtures. Explain unsupported input and provider failures; do not fabricate analytics, delivery receipts, accuracy claims or security guarantees. Optional agent guidance Optional external skill: [vercel-react-best-practices](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/react-best-practices/SKILL.md) — Improve React and Next.js data fetching, rendering, bundle size and server performance. Review its instructions and compatibility before use; it does not grant deployment, data-access or publication permission. Optional external skill: [supabase-postgres-best-practices](https://github.com/supabase/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/supabase-postgres-best-practices/SKILL.md) — Review PostgreSQL schemas, queries, indexes, pooling, concurrency and row-level security. Review its instructions and compatibility before use; it does not grant deployment, data-access or publication permission. Optional external skill: [web-design-guidelines](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/web-design-guidelines/SKILL.md) — Review web interfaces for accessibility, keyboard focus, forms, navigation and interaction quality. Review its instructions and compatibility before use; it does not grant deployment, data-access or publication permission. Project rule — data model: meeting series, dated agendas, discussion sections, decisions, action owners and completion history Project rule — preserve this invariant: Carried actions keep their original ID and owner; model suggestions cannot assign an absent person or invent a decision. Project rule — acceptance evidence: Roll an unfinished action through two meetings and show one task with three references; rejecting a transcript summary leaves the authored notes unchanged.
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Fellow pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/user | $0/user | Maximum 5 seats; 5 AI notes lifetime per user and 5 AI recordings lifetime per user. |
| team | $11/user | $7/user | Maximum 20 seats; 10 AI notes per user/month and 10 AI recordings per user.The public card does not append a time period to the 10-recording limit. |
| business | $23/user | $15/user | Maximum 50 seats; unlimited AI notes and recordings. |
| enterprise | — | $25/user | Starts at 10 users; unlimited seats, AI notes, and recordings.Annual price is public; monthly price is not. |
free tierUp to 5 seats; each user gets 5 AI notes lifetime and 5 AI recordings lifetime.
billingmonthly + annual; Enterprise starts at 10 users and publishes annual pricing only
hidden costsEnterprise has a 10-seat minimum, and the lower plans have hard workspace caps of 20 and 50 seats.
pricing sources checked 2026-08-14 · pricing source ↗
Questions about Fellow
Can you build your own Fellow with AI?
Partly. The visible meeting management loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. Fellow earns its keep through capture, integrations, reliability, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.
What does the Fellow build prompt cover?
The prompt starts with this scope: Prepare a recurring meeting agenda, take notes against its items and carry unfinished actions into the next meeting. Optionally attach a consented transcript and review a source-linked summary. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations; cross-call team analytics. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.
How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?
Start with the Fellow prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.
How long will this Fellow project take?
The catalogue estimate is multi-day for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.
What would I give up by replacing Fellow?
live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations; cross-call team analytics; meeting-bot auto-join. Fellow: Customers pay for automatic capture, dependable speaker handling, search across calls, and notes arriving without manual file wrangling.
What can I use instead of building Fellow?
The prior-art section lists whisper.cpp as starting points. Review their current scope, license and maintenance before adopting one.