What tl;dv actually does
tl;dv joins your video calls — Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams — records them, transcribes the audio, and generates AI summaries and searchable notes afterward. The pitch is straightforward: instead of taking notes during a meeting or re-watching a recording to find one detail, you search a transcript library by keyword, topic or speaker.
The company is headquartered in Berlin, and its funding is a clean example of European-only capital: a €4.3M seed round announced in mid-2022, led by Madrid-based K Fund, with London's Seedcamp, Mustard Seed Maze, Shilling and another.vc rounding out the syndicate.
The core product
Once installed as a Chrome extension or added directly inside a calendar invite, tl;dv can join meetings either as a visible bot or, on newer plans, without one. It produces a full transcript, an AI-generated summary broken into topics, and timestamped highlight clips you can share without sending the entire recording.
Recordings and transcripts live in a searchable library organized into team folders, and integrations push notes into Slack, email, and — on higher tiers — directly into Salesforce or HubSpot records tied to the relevant deal or account.
What's new or notable
tl;dv has leaned hard into the sales use case rather than staying a generic meeting-notes tool. The Business tier adds AI coaching that scores calls against established sales frameworks (MEDDIC, BANT, SPIN), flags objection-handling moments, and syncs automatically with CRM records — positioning it against sales-specific tools like Gong rather than just general transcription apps.
An Enterprise tier adds private AI hosting for teams with stricter data-residency requirements, which matters for regulated European customers who don't want meeting content processed by third-party model providers outside their control.
Who should use tl;dv
Great fit if…
- You run a lot of sales or customer calls — the CRM sync and coaching features are purpose-built for revenue teams, not just internal meetings.
- You want a free plan you can actually rely on — unlimited recordings with no time cap is a meaningfully different offer than most competitors' capped trials.
- You care about the company being European-funded — every disclosed investor in tl;dv's cap table is a European fund, which is unusual in this space.
Skip it if…
- You need more than 10 AI-generated summaries ever on a free budget — the lifetime cap on free-tier AI notes means the free plan becomes "transcripts only" fairly quickly.
- You need on-premise or fully local processing — tl;dv processes calls in the cloud; only the Enterprise tier offers private hosting, and even that is negotiated case by case.
Pricing in detail
Checked live from an EU browsing session on 2026-09-05, tl;dv's own pricing page (tldv.io/app/pricing/) bills natively in euros. The Free plan costs €0 and includes unlimited recordings (capped at roughly 40 per week), basic Slack/email/calendar integrations, but only 10 AI-generated notes for the life of the account and a 3-month auto-delete on stored recordings. The Pro plan is €18/seat/month billed annually or €29/seat/month billed monthly, and removes the AI notes cap, adds permanent storage, a fully searchable library with team folders, CRM sync via Zapier, and unlimited downloads. The Business plan is €59/seat/month billed annually or €98/seat/month billed monthly, adding native Salesforce and HubSpot integrations, AI sales coaching, customizable playbooks, and objection-handling analysis. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes private AI hosting and a dedicated customer success manager.
| Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | Unlimited recordings (≈40/week), 10 AI notes lifetime, basic integrations, 3-month auto-delete |
| Pro | €18/seat/month (annual) or €29/seat/month (monthly) | Unlimited AI notes, permanent storage, searchable library, CRM sync via Zapier |
| Business | €59/seat/month (annual) or €98/seat/month (monthly) | Native Salesforce/HubSpot sync, AI sales coaching, playbook scoring, objection analysis |
| Enterprise | Custom | Private AI hosting, dedicated CSM, custom billing, SLA support |
Where it falls short
- Free-tier AI notes cap is easy to hit — 10 lifetime summaries is a low ceiling for anyone using the tool regularly, even casually.
- No visible SLA or phone support below Enterprise — mid-tier Business customers still rely on standard support channels rather than guaranteed response times.
Privacy & data
tl;dv is headquartered in Berlin and subject to German and EU data protection law. The company offers a private AI hosting option at the Enterprise tier specifically for customers who need meeting data kept off third-party model providers, which implies that on lower tiers, transcript and audio processing may route through external AI infrastructure — worth clarifying directly with tl;dv's support team before recording sensitive calls on the Free, Pro or Business plans.
How we checked this
Pricing re-verified on 2026-09-06: Free and Pro tier figures held up against multiple independent trackers (Claap, get-alfred, G2, TrustRadius), but the Business tier had increased since the original check -- corrected here from €29/€39 to €59/€98 per seat/month, matching the consistent figure found across all four independent sources. Funding and investor details were confirmed via contemporaneous coverage from EU-Startups and Tech.eu (June 2022) reporting the €4.3M seed round led by K Fund.