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tl;dv

Record meetings, skip the notes

AI Sales Ops
For AI agents
MCPAPINative readiness
About

What is tl;dv

tl;dv records, transcribes, and summarizes virtual meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, generating speaker-labeled transcripts and AI summaries without requiring a visible bot in the call. It's built for SDRs, AEs, and sales coaches at solo operators and SMBs who need call records without the overhead of manual note-taking or expensive enterprise tooling. The standout capability is cross-meeting analysis — you can query across multiple calls to surface trends, recurring objections, or coaching patterns rather than reviewing recordings one by one. Transcripts are available in 40+ languages, which helps distributed or multilingual teams. Where it falls short is depth of revenue intelligence: teams that need deal forecasting, pipeline risk scoring, or conversation analytics at the sophistication of a dedicated revenue platform will find tl;dv's insights surface-level by comparison.

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

Outbound webhooks

event-driven integrations

Our verdict

Vanderbuild take

For SDRs, AEs, and sales coaches at early-stage or growth-stage teams who want call intelligence without a five-figure contract, tl;dv is the most accessible entry point in the Meeting Notes category. The agentic story here is real — tl;dv ships a native MCP server, which means your AI agents can query meeting content directly without you building a custom wrapper, making it a practical orchestration layer for any agentic sales workflow. Free or near-free to start, with no credit card required, so the risk to test is essentially zero. The honest limitation is that it doesn't compete with Gong or Chorus on revenue intelligence depth — if your team needs deal health scoring, pipeline forecasting, or advanced rep performance analytics, you'll outgrow tl;dv's reporting before long.

Mateusz Sekta
Founder, vanderbuild
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The wedge

Agentic stack profile

MCP server
Yes

Live MCP server — agents can call this tool directly.

MCP server allows querying meeting data from Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Capabilities include listing meetings, retrieving meeting metadata, fetching platform-agnostic transcripts, and accessing AI-generated highlights.

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.

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Answers

Frequently asked questions

Does tl;dv have an MCP server?

Yes — tl;dv exposes a Model Context Protocol server. MCP server allows querying meeting data from Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Capabilities include listing meetings, retrieving meeting metadata, fetching platform-agnostic transcripts, and accessing AI-generated highlights. See the MCP docs at https://doc.tldv.io/index.html.

Does tl;dv have a public API?

Yes — tl;dv ships a REST API. Docs: https://doc.tldv.io/index.html.

How much does tl;dv cost?

tl;dv: pricing is freemium, expect entry tier ($) spend. Full pricing page: https://tldv.io/app/pricing/.

Who is tl;dv best for?

tl;dv is built for SDR / BDR, Account Executive. Fits Solo, SMB (1-50)-sized teams.

How well does tl;dv 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.