How Caven compares to other AI notetakers
General AI notetakers are built for fast notes in everyday meetings. Caven is built for confidential client and deal work: no bot in the call, processing in the EU, in your own cloud or fully on-premise, pseudonymization before AI, phone calls with your own number, and every meeting filed into iManage or NetDocuments. Each comparison is checked against the other vendor’s public documentation.
Caven vs Otter.ai
Otter.ai is a popular US transcription tool: its assistant joins Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls as a bot, and a desktop app can also record without one. Recordings are stored in the United States, and Otter’s privacy policy allows training its AI on de-identified recordings and transcripts. Caven never sends a bot, processes in the EU, can run in your own cloud or on-premise, pseudonymizes names before AI processing and never trains on your data. For general note-taking Otter works well; for confidential client and deal meetings in Europe, Caven is the safer fit.Caven vs Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai is a US meeting assistant built around its “Fireflies.ai Notetaker” bot, popular with sales teams; its desktop app can also record without a bot, but then saves no audio and labels speakers generically. Meeting data is processed in the United States; Enterprise customers can store it in their own or an EU bucket, but processing stays in the US. Caven never sends a bot, processes in the EU or in your own cloud or on-premise, pseudonymizes names before AI processing and files outputs into legal and finance systems. Fireflies suits general sales and team calls; Caven is built for confidential client and deal meetings.Caven vs Teams Copilot
If your firm runs Microsoft 365, Copilot in Teams and Teams Premium’s intelligent recap already summarise the Teams meetings your own organisation hosts: built into Teams, no bot, no AI training on your data, inside the EU Data Boundary. It stops at the edges of client work: Copilot does not work in Teams meetings hosted by another organisation, capturing Zoom, Webex or Google Meet calls is still in beta for Office Insiders, and Copilot’s AI processing can leave the EU at peak demand unless an admin turns off flex routing. Everything runs in Microsoft’s cloud, without pseudonymization. Caven records any platform and in person without a bot, processes in the EU or in your own cloud or on-premise, pseudonymizes names before AI processing and files into iManage and SharePoint. Many firms use Copilot for internal Teams calls and Caven for client and deal meetings.Caven vs Granola
Granola and Caven both take AI meeting notes without a bot, so the difference is where your data goes and where your notes end up. Granola is a general AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings: notes are stored in the United States, there is no EU data residency, no private cloud and no on-premise version, and on the Free and Business plans Granola may use anonymised data to improve its own models unless each user opts out. Caven is built for legal and finance: it processes in the EU, runs in your own cloud or fully on-premise, pseudonymizes names before AI processing, never trains on your data and files every meeting into iManage or NetDocuments. For non-sensitive internal notes Granola works well; for confidential client and deal meetings in Europe, Caven is the safer fit.Caven vs Jamie
Jamie is a privacy-first, general-purpose AI notetaker from Germany: no bot, processing in the EU, ISO 27001 and no training on your data. Caven shares those foundations but is built specifically for legal, finance and M&A teams, and that is where the difference lies. Caven files every meeting straight into iManage and NetDocuments, runs in your own cloud or fully on-premise, pseudonymizes names before the AI model sees them, records phone calls and lets attendees opt out from the advance notice. Jamie has no legal DMS integration, no own-cloud or on-premise option and cannot record phone calls. For privacy-conscious everyday meetings Jamie is a solid choice; for matter, deal and committee work, Caven fits how your firm already works.
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Data stays in the EU- No bot joins your call
- ISO 27001 and GDPR
- No training on your data
Why choose Caven?
No bot in the call
Caven records from your desktop or phone. No third-party participant, no awkward introductions and no platform lock-in.
Your data stays in the EU
All recordings are processed exclusively within the EU. Never used for model training, never shared with third parties.
Built in Belgium, under EU law
Caven is a Belgian company with no US parent. Audio is processed on EU servers, and you can host Caven in your own cloud or on-premise.
The right summary, automatically
Caven recognises the type of meeting and applies a template tailored to your industry, or one built from your own notes.
Every meeting searchable
Every conversation becomes a structured record. Search your full history and ask the AI Copilot about any meeting.
Deploy where you want
Caven cloud, your own AWS, Azure or GCP, or fully on-premise. ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant.