Read

Your meetings, already documented.

MCPAPINative readiness

About

What is Read

Read AI joins your calendar-scheduled meetings automatically, records and transcribes them, and delivers structured summaries with follow-up action items after each session. It also surfaces real-time engagement metrics during live calls and generates topic reports across Teams messages and channels — not just individual meetings. Founders and account executives at solo or SMB-sized teams get the most out of it, particularly those running high call volumes who need CRM and Slack updates without manual entry. The standout capability is enterprise search across all meeting content, letting you query past conversations the way you'd search a document. The free tier caps at five transcripts per month, which means any team running more than a handful of calls weekly will hit the ceiling quickly and need to move to a paid plan.

AI Sales Ops

Capabilities

Key features

Meeting notes

AI transcription and summary of sales calls

Native CRM + team chat integration

first-party connectors, no middleware required

AI capabilities

call transcription + summary

Also ships

mobile app

Webhooks + no-code automation support

fits any iPaaS or workflow chain

Our verdict

Vanderbuild take

For founders and AEs who need meeting notes to flow into their stack without manual work, Read AI is one of the more complete options in the Meeting Notes category — it covers transcription, summaries, CRM push, and topic detection in one tool. The agentic story here is genuinely native: Read AI ships an MCP server, meaning your AI agents can query meeting content directly without you building a custom wrapper, which puts it ahead of most notetakers for teams moving toward agentic workflows. Free or near-free to start — no credit card required on the free tier — so the risk to test is low. The honest limitation is that the free plan's five-transcript monthly cap is tight for anyone running a real sales motion, and video playback is locked behind the Enterprise tier at $29.75/user/month, so the cost curve rises faster than the feature list might suggest at first glance.

Mateusz Sekta

Founder, vanderbuild

The wedge

Agentic stack profile

MCP server

Yes

Live MCP server — agents can call this tool directly.

Provides tools to retrieve comprehensive meeting information by ID (including metadata, summaries, and transcripts) and to list and filter meeting history with pagination support.

Open MCP →

API

REST

Programmatic access available.

REST API — straightforward to call from any agent or workflow tool. Rate limits and auth vary by plan.

API docs →

Agentic readiness

Native

Built for agents from the ground up.

MCP server + agent-friendly API + at least one autonomous workflow out of the box. The bar for 'Native' is high — only a handful of tools currently qualify.

Stack role

Notetaker

Where this tool slots into an agentic pipeline.

Plays the role of Notetaker in an agentic pipeline. Use it to transcribe and summarise meetings into structured notes.

Compare

Read alternatives

Tools that solve a similar problem — compared at a glance.

Read(this tool)

Pricing: Seat-based
Budget: $
Best for: Founder, Account Executive

Readiness: Native
MCP: Yes
API: REST

Avoma

Pricing: Seat-based
Budget: $
Best for: SDR / BDR, Account Executive

Readiness: Native
MCP: Yes
API: REST

Fireflies

Pricing: Freemium
Budget: $
Best for: SDR / BDR, Account Executive

Readiness: Native
MCP: Yes
API: GraphQL

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Does Read have an MCP server?

Yes — Read exposes a Model Context Protocol server. Provides tools to retrieve comprehensive meeting information by ID (including metadata, summaries, and transcripts) and to list and filter meeting history with pagination support. See the MCP docs at https://api.read.ai/mcp.

Does Read have a public API?

Yes — Read ships a REST API. Docs: https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49381161088659-API-Reference.

How much does Read cost?

Read: pricing is seat-based, expect entry tier ($) spend. Full pricing page: https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing.

Who is Read best for?

Read is built for Founder, Account Executive. Fits Solo, SMB (1-50)-sized teams.

How well does Read fit an agentic sales stack?

Tier: Native. Has both an MCP server and an agent-friendly API — drops into an agentic stack with minimal glue code.

Quick spec

MCP serverYes ↗

APIREST ↗

ReadinessNative

Stack roleNotetaker

Pricing

Seat-based

Vendor pricing →

Ideal customer

Growth stage

Early-stage startup · Growth-stage

Company size

Solo · SMB (1-50)

Best for

Founder · Account Executive