Otter’s new feature lets users search across their enterprise tools
Otter has launched a new enterprise search feature that allows users to connect and query data from various external applications. This move aims to enhance its functionality as a productivity tool by integrating data from sources like Gmail, Google Drive, and Salesforce. The company continues to evolve its offerings, responding to customer preferences for transparency in meeting notes and the use of AI assistants.
- ▪Otter's new feature enables users to search across data from multiple enterprise tools.
- ▪The app can now connect to services like Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce.
- ▪Otter has redesigned its AI assistant to be consistently present across the interface.
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AI meeting notetaker app companies have realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries alone is not enough to justify their business models and valuations. They now want the apps to act as a full workspace where users bring in data from different sources, search across all of it, and make decisions about their business. Following notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies.ai, and Fathom, Otter is now launching enterprise search by acting as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) client. That means it can connect to and pull data from outside apps and services using a common standard that AI tools are rapidly adopting. Otter has been around for nearly a decade now, but it has been making moves toward becoming an enterprise productivity tool in the last few months.
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