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Workspace admins can now see seat usage more clearly, customize the Note Taker’s appearance, and manage how connected AI assistants work with Fellow, all from Workspace settings.

Seat usage at a glance: See how many seats are in use, which member invitations are still pending, and how many open seats remain where applicable, so you can check availability before inviting your next group of teammates.

A Note Taker that matches your brand: Customize the Note Taker’s backgrounds, logo, and text for its recording, paused, and waiting states. Available on plans that include bot customization.

Control over connected AI tools: Search and browse the MCP tools available to connected assistants, see what each one can do, and choose which tools your workspace allows. You can also set unused MCP connections to disconnect automatically after 7, 14, 30, or 60 days. Available on plans that include MCP.

A default AI template for your workspace: Choose a workspace-wide default AI template for recaps. Available on plans that include custom recap templates.

You can now create, complete, and archive action items through Ask Fellow, or through a connected AI assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude.

Keep your follow-ups up to date in the conversation where you’re already working, without opening each meeting note to make a change.

Create and assign: Create action items for yourself or teammates, with assignees and due dates. Try “Create an action item for me to send the proposal by Friday.”

Find and complete: Pull up existing action items and mark them complete once they’re done, like “Mark my proposal follow-up action item complete.”

Archive and restore: Archive items you no longer need, such as “Archive my old venue-booking action item,” and restore them later.

Works in your connected assistant: The same capabilities are available through Fellow’s MCP connection, so you can manage action items from ChatGPT, Claude, or another connected assistant.

Live transcription is now available for botless recordings in the Fellow desktop app, so you can read and search the conversation as it unfolds.

Read along in real time: Open the live transcript from the recording controls and watch the conversation appear in your meeting note, updating every few seconds. Anyone with access to the note can follow along, not just the person recording.

Catch up without interrupting: Scroll back through everything captured since recording started, or search for a keyword and jump between matches. New speech won’t pull you away while you’re reviewing earlier parts of the conversation.

Ask Fellow about the meeting so far: Ask questions like “What have we decided so far?” or “Summarize what I missed” and get answers based on the conversation captured up to that point.

Desktop botless recordings only: Live transcription is available for botless recordings on Mac and Windows. When you stop the recording, Fellow generates the full transcript, AI notes, and recap as usual.

Workspace admins now have more ways to protect meeting content, decide how 1-on-1s are organized, and track sensitive activity across the workspace.

Copy protection for transcripts and AI Notes: A new 'Allow copying' toggle under Content & Retention lets admins turn off text copying from transcripts and AI Notes. It applies to everyone viewing your workspace's meetings, including people you've shared a meeting with and public recap links. To also block downloads, turn off downloads in the same settings.

Optional 1-on-1 grouping: By default, meetings between two people in your workspace are grouped into their 1-on-1 series and follow that series' settings, like auto-record. Admins can now turn off "Automatically group 1-on-1 meetings" in Sharing settings. Past meetings aren't affected, meetings already linked to a 1-on-1 stay there, and grouping stays on by default.

Redaction events in the audit log: When someone redacts content from a recording or transcript, the audit log shows who made the redaction, how much was removed, and which meeting it came from. It never records what was redacted. (Enterprise only)

AI Note activity in the audit log: Editing, regenerating, restoring, or re-transcribing an AI Note now creates an audit log entry, including which section was edited. Entries capture the action without the note content. In a meeting's activity log, the previous "Note edited" entry is now labeled "Agenda edited." (Enterprise Only)

Workspace admins can now control how long Fellow keeps recordings, transcripts, and AI Notes independently.

Previously, one auto-deletion setting covered all meeting content. Now you can delete video as soon as a meeting is processed and keep a searchable transcript, or keep recordings and remove the verbatim text.

Independent retention settings: In Workspace Settings, admins can turn on auto-deletion for recordings, transcripts, and AI Notes separately and choose how long to keep each, up to 5 years.

Zero-day retention where it matters: Recordings and transcripts can each be set to 0 days, so that content is deleted as soon as Fellow finishes processing the meeting. AI Notes are generated first, so your summary is still there.

Confirmation before anything is deleted: If a change would remove content you're keeping today, Fellow shows exactly what will be deleted before you save. Deleted content is permanently removed, including from storage backups.

No action needed for existing policies: Workspaces that already had auto-deletion turned on keep the same retention period, now applied to both recordings and transcripts.

Workspace settings have been reorganized so admins can find and change what they need faster, with search built right into the menu.

Search for any setting: A new search box sits at the top of the settings menu and is ready to type in as soon as you open it. It finds individual settings, not just pages, and pressing Enter takes you straight to the first match.

Four clear groups: The settings menu is now organized into Workspace, Policies, Product, and Billing, replacing the previous single list of pages.

More focused pages: Larger pages like Security and Note Taker & AI have been split into dedicated pages, including Authentication, Developer, Fellow MCP, Audit log, Recordings, Sharing, and Content & retention, so related settings live together.

Settings that match your meeting policies: Recordings, Sharing, Content & retention, and Templates now sit together under Policies and use the same names as the policy rule editor, so the setting you see on a page is the one you pick when writing a rule.

New and refined controls: Meeting sharing is now a workspace setting, and zero-day retention can be set separately for transcripts and media. Auto-deletion changes now require a save and a confirmation to prevent accidental deletions, and settings available on other plans show an upgrade icon instead of being hidden.

Same controls, same permissions: Your existing settings and who can change them stay the same. Workspace settings remain admin-only.

You can now describe in your own words what you want flagged in meetings, and Fellow reviews the meetings you choose against it.

Plain-language criteria: Write what you want flagged in your own words, and Fellow catches nuance that keyword lists miss. Not sure where to start? Fellow can turn a rough idea into a structured tracker with a suggested name and labels, which you review before applying.

Organized results with labels: Add optional sub-categories, like Pricing, Security or Timing, and each match is sorted into one of them. Reviewers can triage, route and report on results instead of scanning a flat list.

Rules for targeted coverage: Choose which meetings each tracker runs on by title, attendees, organizer, meeting length or attendee count, so it only analyzes the conversations that you want to see.

Built for compliance review: Matches appear on the meeting recording and can be used to filter the recordings library.

Find Fellow in the ChatGPT Plugin Directory and connect your account in a couple of clicks.

Same powerful connection, easier to set up. Once connected, ask ChatGPT to search your meetings, pull an AI summary, read a transcript, check action items, or look up attendees, all without leaving your chat.

See your meetings visually. Search results can appear as interactive cards right in ChatGPT, showing the meeting title, attendees, and summary, with a link straight to the full meeting in Fellow.

Update agendas from the chat. With write access granted, you can ask ChatGPT to add a talking point to an upcoming meeting or apply a saved agenda template.

Admins stay in control. Workspace admins turn the connection on, choose which tools are available, and every connection and change is logged in the security audit log.

Fellow has joined Microsoft's Copilot Cowork partnership program, bringing your meeting content directly into Microsoft Copilot.

Ask Copilot about your meetings: Copilot now draws on what was said in Fellow alongside your email, Teams chats, and SharePoint files, so a single question can pull in everything relevant to a topic.

Search and surface action items: Find past meetings by topic, attendee, or date, and pull your open action items across any week's meetings without leaving Copilot.

Turn recaps into Office files: Convert meeting recaps into Word briefs, PowerPoint decks, or Excel sheets in a single task.

Access stays scoped: Copilot only surfaces the meetings and channels you already have access to in Fellow.

Find Fellow in Copilot Cowork or the Microsoft Marketplace and sign in once to get started.

Channels now have a dedicated owner, with new controls over who can post and what can be auto-published.

A new role for channel owners: Whoever creates a channel becomes its first manager. Managers can run their channel without needing full workspace admin access. Channels without a manager keep working exactly as they do today.

Control who can post and auto-publish: Managers can set a channel to allow everyone in the channel to manually add recordings, restrict it to managers only, or turn manual adding off entirely. Managers can also stop members from routing their own meeting series into them automatically.

Default channels for new members: Workspace admins now have a Channels settings page to manage the default channels every new person is automatically added to.