# Laxis

> Laxis is an AI conversation platform that captures meetings either bot-free from your own device or by sending an assistant bot into calendar calls, transcribes and summarises them, and adds a high-speed voice dictation keyboard, an AI writer with templates, keyword tracking, and CRM automation; it is metered in transcription minutes per month, with 300 free, 2,000 on Premium, and unlimited on Business.

- Category: AI Meeting Note Takers (https://saastracker.org/categories/ai-meeting-notes)
- Website: https://www.laxis.com
- Starting price: $0 (Basic), then $15.99 per month (Premium)
- Free plan: 300 transcription minutes a month with only 30 days of conversation history, plus recording, basic summaries, search, export and sharing, folders, and voice-to-text.
- Free trial: No fixed-length paid trial; the free Basic plan is the evaluation path and requires no credit card
- Founded: 2021, HQ: Indiana, United States, Ownership: Venture-backed
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/laxis

## Overview

Laxis is the most idiosyncratic product in this category and the only one that ships hardware. Alongside the software it sells AI notetaking earbuds, which won a CES Innovation Award for 2026 and a WIRED recommendation, and it positions itself less as a meeting notetaker and more as a capture layer for every kind of conversation, including a dictation keyboard the company claims lets you type four times faster than by hand. It reports more than 100,000 professionals using it.

The company is led by Eric Xiao and is based in Indiana, which makes it a rare notetaker from outside the usual San Francisco, New York, London, and Tel Aviv axis. It has raised roughly $1.5M in seed funding from a syndicate of regional investors including Elevate Ventures, Allos Ventures, Flywheel Fund, Ground Game Ventures, VisionTech Partners, and Lofty Ventures, with Celtic House Asia Partners also listed. That is the smallest raise of any product in this comparison and the biggest continuity question mark.

The most interesting product decision is that Laxis refuses to pick a side in the bot debate. It offers zero-footprint bot-free capture from your own device, an AI assistant bot that joins calendar events, and file upload, all in the same workflow. Granola cannot send a bot; Otter's bot-free path is a secondary app; Laxis treats both as first-class and lets you choose per meeting, which is genuinely the right answer for a business that has both confidential client calls and internal meetings it wants covered while it is elsewhere.

The pricing is a straightforward minute meter, and it is the thing to model first. Free gives 300 transcription minutes a month with only 30 days of conversation history. Premium at $15.99 a month gives 2,000 minutes and unlimited storage plus the AI writer, AI chat, keyword tracking, and a personal knowledge base. Business at $29.99 removes the meter and adds CRM automation, a very large Zapier-style integration reach, and team administration. Note that these prices are per month for a plan rather than clearly published per-seat team pricing, which is one of several places where Laxis's pricing page is less precise than its competitors'.

## How it works

1. You install the app and pick a capture method per meeting. Zero-footprint capture records from your own device with nothing joining the call, the AI assistant bot accepts a calendar invitation and attends as a visible participant, and file upload transcribes recordings made elsewhere.

2. Laxis transcribes and produces an overview, action items, and topics. Crucially it combines your own notes with the AI output rather than replacing them, which is the same enhancement idea Granola built its product around.

3. Beyond the meeting, Laxis acts as a dictation layer. The voice keyboard turns speech into text anywhere you type, which is a different job from meeting notes and is the reason a chunk of the user base is there at all.

4. Premium adds an AI Writer with templates, AI Chat across conversations, keyword tracking, an agent mode, and a personal knowledge base. Business adds CRM automation, team administration, a very wide app integration reach, and the ability to rename the assistant so it does not carry the vendor's name into your meetings.

## Best for

Solo professionals and small revenue teams who want one tool for meeting capture and voice dictation, who want to choose bot or bot-free per call, and who are comfortable with a minute meter and a very small vendor.

## Not the right fit for

- Anyone in a heavy calendar on a budget; 2,000 minutes on Premium covers about 33 hours a month, and the unlimited tier is $29.99.
- Buyers who need a durable free archive; the free plan keeps only 30 days of conversation history, so it deletes as it goes.
- Organisations with strict vendor due diligence; roughly $1.5M raised is the smallest balance sheet in this comparison and the compliance documentation is thinner than competitors'.
- Teams that want clear per-seat team pricing; the published plans read as individual subscriptions and team structure is less clearly documented than at Otter, Sembly, or MeetGeek.
- Anyone wanting deep sales coaching; Laxis leans towards revenue workflows and prospecting agents but does not offer scorecards or playbook adherence analytics.

## Features

### Capture, three ways

The only product here that treats bot and bot-free as equal options.

- **Zero-footprint bot-free capture**: Records from your own device with nothing appearing in the participant list, which is the right mode for client-facing and confidential calls.
- **AI assistant bot**: Invited to calendar events and attends as a visible participant, which covers meetings you are not personally in. Granola and Bluedot cannot do this at all.
- **File upload**: Transcribe existing audio and video, so a backlog of recordings can be brought into the same archive.
- **Voice-to-text dictation**: A high-speed dictation keyboard the vendor claims is four times faster than typing, usable anywhere rather than only in meetings.
- **AI notetaking earbuds**: Laxis sells its own hardware, a CES Innovation Award honoree for 2026 and a WIRED pick for best AI notetaking earbuds, which no software-only competitor offers.
- **In-person conversations**: The same capture path covers face-to-face meetings rather than only conferencing platforms.

### Notes and AI output

Enhancement rather than replacement, with the good parts on Premium.

- **Overview, action items, and topics**: Structured post-meeting output rather than a wall of transcript, available from the free tier.
- **Notes combined with AI insight**: Laxis merges your own notes with the machine output rather than discarding them, which is the same premise Granola built its reputation on.
- **AI Writer with templates**: A Premium feature that turns a conversation into follow-up emails, summaries, and documents in a chosen shape.
- **AI Chat**: Query across conversations rather than one meeting at a time, on Premium and above.
- **Keyword tracking**: Flags mentions of specific terms across conversations, which is the closest thing Laxis has to a revenue intelligence signal.
- **AI Agent Mode**: Automates recurring work from conversation content on Premium rather than requiring the same prompt each time.
- **Personal knowledge base**: Accumulates context across your conversations so later answers draw on the whole history rather than a single call.

### Search, storage, and organisation

The free plan's real limit is history, not features.

- **Search across conversations**: Full-text search over transcripts, included on the free tier.
- **Folders**: Organise conversations by account, project, or client rather than one flat list.
- **30-day history on free**: The free plan keeps only 30 days of conversation history, so it deletes as it goes and cannot be treated as an archive.
- **Unlimited storage on paid**: Premium and Business keep conversations indefinitely, which is the main upgrade trigger for most users.
- **Export and sharing**: Transcripts and summaries export and share from the free tier onward.

### Team and workflow

Business-tier features aimed at small revenue teams.

- **CRM automation**: A Business-tier feature that pushes conversation outcomes into the CRM rather than requiring manual logging.
- **Very wide app integration reach**: The vendor advertises access to thousands of apps on the Business tier, which in practice means an automation-platform connection rather than thousands of native integrations.
- **Personalised assistant name**: Business lets you rename the assistant, so the bot that joins a client call does not carry the vendor's brand into the participant list. Very few competitors allow this.
- **Team admin**: Business adds administration for a shared workspace.
- **Priority support and early access**: Business includes prioritised support and earlier access to new features.
- **Prospecting agents**: Laxis also sells AI prospect research and outreach agents alongside the notetaker, which is a separate product surface rather than part of the meeting workflow.

### Enterprise and security

Thin at self-serve, quoted above it.

- **Full API access**: Enterprise-tier only. Self-serve customers get integrations rather than programmatic access.
- **SSO**: Enterprise-tier, alongside enterprise security and organisation-wide deployment.
- **Private AI models**: Enterprise offers private model deployment, which is a stronger isolation claim than most vendors this size make.
- **Dedicated account manager**: Enterprise support model with custom transcription volume.
- **Compliance documentation**: Laxis does not publish SOC 2, HIPAA, or residency credentials as prominently as MeetGeek, Bluedot, or Otter do; request them explicitly during evaluation.

## Use cases

- **Consultant with both client calls and internal meetings**: Client calls cannot have a recorder in the participant list, but the consultant also wants coverage of internal calls they are double-booked out of. Outcome: Zero-footprint capture handles the client work and the assistant bot attends the internal meeting, which is a combination no other product on this list offers in one subscription.
- **Writer or researcher who dictates**: Long-form writing is slow and the meeting notetaker and the dictation tool are two separate subscriptions. Outcome: Laxis covers both: meeting capture plus a voice keyboard for everyday typing, with the personal knowledge base connecting what was said to what gets written.
- **Small sales team logging calls into a CRM**: Reps do not log calls, and keyword mentions of competitors or pricing objections are invisible to the manager. Outcome: Business at $29.99 adds CRM automation and keyword tracking, and the assistant can be renamed so the bot in the buyer's call does not advertise a third-party vendor.
- **Field professional taking notes away from a laptop**: Conversations happen on site or in transit where opening a laptop to run a notetaker is not practical. Outcome: The AI notetaking earbuds and mobile capture cover conversations that never touch a conferencing platform at all.

## Pricing

Subscription metered in transcription minutes per month, with conversation history length as a second limit on the free tier. Business removes the minute meter.

- **Basic**: $0 per month. 300 transcription minutes per month; 30 days conversation history; Record meetings and basic summaries; Search, export and share, folders; Voice-to-text dictation. The 30-day history is the real limit. This plan forgets as fast as it records.
- **Premium**: $15.99 per month, with a 20 percent discount on annual billing. 2,000 transcription minutes per month; Unlimited conversation storage; AI Writer with templates and AI Chat; Keyword tracking and AI Agent Mode; Personal knowledge base. About 33 hours of transcription a month, which is roughly half a full calendar.
- **Business**: $29.99 per month, with a 20 percent discount on annual billing. Unlimited transcription; CRM automation; Access to thousands of apps via automation platforms; Personalised assistant name and team admin; Priority support and early feature access. Renaming the assistant is a genuinely useful feature almost nobody else offers.
- **Enterprise**: Custom quoted. Custom transcription volume; Full API and SSO integration; Enterprise security; Private AI models; Dedicated account manager and organisation-wide deployment.

Add-ons:

- AI notetaking earbuds (Sold separately as hardware): A CES Innovation Award 2026 honoree and a WIRED pick for best AI notetaking earbuds; priced as a device rather than as part of the subscription.

Billing notes:

- Annual billing carries a 20 percent discount on Premium and Business.
- The meter is transcription minutes per month and it does not roll over; there is no published overage rate, so you stop transcribing when you run out.
- The free plan's 30-day conversation history means it is not an archive. Anything older than a month is gone unless you upgraded or exported it.
- Prices are published as plan prices rather than clearly per-seat team prices, so a team should confirm exactly how seats are counted before committing.
- Full API access and SSO are Enterprise-only, so a self-serve buyer cannot build on Laxis programmatically.
- The prospecting agents and the earbuds are separate commercial products; buying the notetaker subscription does not include either.

Value assessment: Do the minute arithmetic first. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes generates about 3,900 transcription minutes a month, which sails past the free plan's 300 and past Premium's 2,000, so that person needs Business at $29.99 a month, or about $24 a month on annual billing, roughly $288 a year. That is more than Otter Business, more than MeetGeek Business, and more than Granola, and Laxis is a much smaller company with thinner published compliance credentials. Where it earns the money is scope: nobody else gives you bot and bot-free capture in the same subscription, a voice dictation keyboard, keyword tracking, a renameable assistant, and hardware earbuds. If you would otherwise buy a notetaker and a dictation tool separately, the combined price is fair. If you only want meeting notes, MeetGeek gives you more for $17 and Granola gives you better notes for $14.

## Strengths

- The only product in this comparison that offers bot-free capture, an assistant bot, and file upload as equal first-class options, letting you choose per meeting.
- A voice dictation keyboard alongside the notetaker, which collapses two subscriptions into one for anyone who dictates.
- The assistant can be renamed on the Business tier, so a bot in a client call does not advertise a third-party vendor. Almost nobody else allows this.
- AI notetaking earbuds, a CES Innovation Award 2026 honoree and a WIRED pick, which extends capture to conversations that never involve a computer.
- Notes are combined with AI output rather than replaced, which is the same enhancement premise Granola is admired for.
- Unlimited transcription on the Business tier with no meter to manage, plus CRM automation and keyword tracking.
- Private AI models on the Enterprise tier, a stronger isolation claim than most vendors of this size make.

## Limitations

- Roughly $1.5M raised makes this the smallest company in the comparison by a wide margin, and continuity risk should be priced into the decision.
- Compliance documentation is thin: SOC 2, HIPAA, data residency, and model-training policy are not published as prominently as MeetGeek, Bluedot, Otter, or Sembly publish theirs.
- The free plan keeps only 30 days of history, so it deletes as it goes and cannot be used to build an archive.
- Premium's 2,000 minutes is about half a busy calendar, pushing regular users to the $29.99 Business tier.
- No published overage rate, so exceeding your minutes stops transcription rather than costing a little more.
- Full API access and SSO are Enterprise-only, which rules out self-serve programmatic integration.
- The product surface is spread across meeting notes, dictation, prospecting agents, and hardware, which is a lot of directions for a company this size and makes it hard to judge which parts will get sustained investment.
- Team pricing is less clearly published than competitors', which makes budgeting for more than one person harder than it should be.

## Comparisons

- **Laxis vs Granola**: Both merge your own notes with the AI output rather than replacing them, and both can capture without a bot. Granola writes better, costs $14 a seat with no meter, and has a vastly larger company behind it, but it cannot send a bot to a meeting you are skipping. Laxis can, and adds dictation and hardware. Take Granola for note quality and vendor stability; take Laxis if you need both capture modes and a voice keyboard in one subscription.
- **Laxis vs Sembly AI**: Both are very small vendors selling more than notes. Sembly is bot-only but unmetered on time from $20 a seat, with consent tracking, retention settings, and automatic risk and issue detection that Laxis has no equivalent for. Laxis meters minutes up to a $29.99 unlimited tier but lets you pick bot or bot-free per meeting and bundles voice dictation and earbuds. Sembly for governed professional services work; Laxis for capture flexibility and everyday voice input.
- **Laxis vs Fathom**: Fathom has the most generous free tier in the category, with unlimited recording and video playback, all captured by a bot. Laxis has a tight 300-minute free plan with 30-day history but can capture without a bot at all, and adds dictation and keyword tracking. Fathom for free-tier generosity and recorded call review; Laxis when a visible bot is sometimes unacceptable and you want one tool for meetings and voice input.
- **Laxis vs Krisp**: Both are capture utilities that grew into notetakers. Krisp is $8 a seat with unlimited transcription, bot-free capture, noise cancellation, and an MCP connector, but no bot option and a 10 GB storage cap. Laxis is more expensive but offers a bot when you need one plus dictation and keyword tracking. Krisp for price and audio quality; Laxis for capture flexibility.
- **Laxis vs Fireflies.ai**: Fireflies is the larger bot-based platform with 100-plus languages, a big integration catalogue, and conversation intelligence. Laxis is much smaller but can capture without a bot and doubles as a dictation tool. Fireflies for a team that wants a mature platform wired into its stack; Laxis for an individual who wants one tool covering meetings and everyday voice input.
- **Laxis vs Circleback**: Circleback is bot-free, writes noticeably better notes, covers 100-plus languages, and has a real API, webhooks, and MCP at roughly $21 to $25 a seat. Laxis costs $29.99 for unlimited, has weaker note quality and thinner published compliance, but offers a bot option and dictation Circleback does not. Circleback for note quality and automation; Laxis for capture flexibility and voice input.

## Implementation

- Setup time: Ten to fifteen minutes. Download the app, connect the calendar if you plan to use the assistant bot, and choose your default capture method. The dictation keyboard is a separate setup step on mobile.
- Learning curve: Low for capture, moderate for the rest, because the product spans meetings, dictation, agent mode, and a knowledge base, and the boundaries between them are not always obvious in the interface.
- Onboarding: Entirely self-serve through Business. Enterprise adds an account manager, the API, and SSO. Deciding your default capture mode per meeting type is the configuration decision worth making deliberately.
- Migration: File upload lets you backfill an archive from recordings made elsewhere, subject to your minute allowance. Export from the free tier onward covers getting data out, but note that the free plan's 30-day history means there may be little to export. There is no self-serve API for bulk migration, so plan exports manually.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Web, macOS and Windows desktop, iOS and Android, Chrome extension, Laxis AI notetaking earbuds
- API: Full API access and SSO are Enterprise-tier only. Self-serve tiers reach other systems through CRM automation and automation-platform connections on the Business plan.
- Compliance: Not prominently published; request SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA documentation directly during evaluation
- Data residency: Not published as a self-serve option.
- SSO: Enterprise-tier only.
- Security notes: Private AI model deployment is offered on the Enterprise tier, which is a stronger isolation claim than most vendors this size make. Below that, published security and compliance detail is thinner than at MeetGeek, Bluedot, Otter, or Sembly, and the model-training position is not stated on the pricing page. Ask for the data processing agreement and an explicit training and retention statement before capturing client conversations.

## Support

- Channels: Email support, In-app help, Priority support on Business, Dedicated account manager on Enterprise
- Documentation: Product documentation and integration pages on laxis.com covering capture modes, the AI writer, agents, and integrations.
- Community: More than 100,000 reported professionals using the product, with G2 recognition; no significant official user forum.

## Company

- Founded: 2021
- Founders: Eric Xiao
- Headquarters: Indiana, United States
- Ownership: Venture-backed
- Employees: Not disclosed; a small team
- Funding: Approximately $1.5M raised in seed funding from Elevate Ventures, Allos Ventures, Flywheel Fund, Ground Game Ventures, VisionTech Partners, and Lofty Ventures, with Celtic House Asia Partners also listed among investors.

Funding history:

- Seed (2023): Approximately $1.5M. A regional syndicate led by Indiana investors including Elevate Ventures and Allos Ventures; the smallest raise of any product in this comparison.

Timeline:

- 2021: Founded as an AI meeting assistant for revenue teams, focused on capturing customer requirements and generating follow-ups.
- 2023: Raises roughly $1.5M in seed funding from a syndicate of Indiana and regional investors, and adds AI Writer templates and CRM workflows.
- 2024: Wins G2 Momentum Leader recognition and expands from meeting notes into prospecting agents and voice dictation.
- 2025: Adds zero-footprint bot-free capture alongside the assistant bot, making capture mode a per-meeting choice rather than an architectural commitment.
- 2026: Ships AI notetaking earbuds, named a CES Innovation Award honoree and a WIRED pick, and reports more than 100,000 professionals using the platform.

## Integrations

Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex, Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar, CRM automation (Business tier), Thousands of apps via automation platform connections (Business tier), File upload for existing audio and video, Laxis AI notetaking earbuds, Full API and SSO (Enterprise tier)

## FAQ

### What is Laxis?

Laxis is an AI conversation platform that captures meetings either without a bot, from your own device, or by sending an assistant bot into calendar calls, transcribes and summarises them, and adds a high-speed voice dictation keyboard, an AI writer with templates, keyword tracking, and CRM automation. It also sells its own AI notetaking earbuds as separate hardware.

### How much does Laxis cost?

Basic is free with 300 transcription minutes a month and 30 days of conversation history. Premium is $15.99 a month for 2,000 minutes, unlimited storage, the AI writer, AI chat, keyword tracking, and a personal knowledge base. Business is $29.99 a month for unlimited transcription, CRM automation, a renameable assistant, and team administration. Annual billing carries a 20 percent discount. Enterprise is quoted and adds the full API, SSO, and private AI models.

### How is Laxis metered, and what would 20 meetings a week cost?

It meters transcription minutes per month. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes generates roughly 3,900 minutes a month, which exceeds both the free plan's 300 and Premium's 2,000. That person needs Business at $29.99 a month, or about $24 a month on annual billing, roughly $288 a year for unlimited transcription. Minutes do not roll over and there is no published overage rate, so hitting the limit stops transcription rather than costing extra.

### Does Laxis put a bot in my client calls?

Only if you want it to. This is the product's most useful distinction: zero-footprint capture records from your own device with nothing in the participant list, and the AI assistant bot is a separate option you invite to calendar events when you want coverage of a meeting you are not attending. On the Business tier you can also rename the assistant so it does not carry the vendor's brand into a client's participant list, which very few competitors allow.

### Does Laxis keep audio and video, and for how long?

Recordings and transcripts are retained, but the retention answer depends entirely on your plan. The free tier keeps only 30 days of conversation history, so it deletes as it goes. Premium and Business offer unlimited conversation storage. There is no published per-tier media retention table beyond that, so if a defined deletion window matters to you, confirm it in writing before you rely on it.

### Does Laxis train its AI on my conversations?

The pricing and marketing pages do not state a model-training policy, which is a gap compared with Bluedot, MeetGeek, and Spinach, all of which publish an explicit no-training position. Request the data processing agreement and an explicit written statement on model training and retention before capturing client conversations. The Enterprise tier offers private AI models, which is the strongest isolation option available, but that is a quoted contract rather than a self-serve setting.

### How does Laxis handle consent in two-party recording jurisdictions?

Both capture modes leave consent to you and neither includes a consent-tracking record. The bot-free mode is the more delicate case, because nothing on screen signals to the other side that the conversation is being captured, and the renameable assistant on Business means even the bot may not be obviously a recorder. In two-party consent states such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, and under GDPR in the EU, you must announce recording and get agreement first. If you want a documented consent trail, Sembly is the only product in this comparison that ships one.

### What are the Laxis earbuds?

Laxis sells AI notetaking earbuds as a separate hardware product, recognised as a CES Innovation Award honoree for 2026 and picked by WIRED as best AI notetaking earbuds. They extend capture to conversations that never touch a computer or a conferencing platform, which is a category nobody else in this comparison addresses. They are priced as a device and are not included in any software subscription.

### Is Laxis suitable for a sales team?

Partly. Business adds CRM automation and keyword tracking, which covers logging calls and spotting mentions of competitors or pricing, and the renameable assistant is a real advantage in buyer-facing calls. What is missing is coaching: no scorecards, no playbook adherence, no talk-time analytics. Laxis also sells separate prospecting and outreach agents, which is a different product surface. Treat it as call capture and CRM hygiene, not as revenue intelligence.

### How risky is buying from a company this small?

It is the most concentrated vendor risk in this comparison. Laxis has raised roughly $1.5M, the smallest of any product here, and publishes less about compliance than its peers, while spreading its effort across meeting notes, dictation, prospecting agents, and hardware. The product has real recognition and a reported 100,000 professionals using it, but if you plan to build a multi-year archive on it, export regularly and do not treat the platform as your only copy.

## Editorial verdict

Laxis is a genuinely interesting product from a genuinely small company, and both halves of that sentence matter. Nobody else lets you choose bot-free or bot capture per meeting, bundles a voice dictation keyboard with the notetaker, lets you rename the assistant so it does not advertise a vendor in your client's call, or sells award-winning notetaking earbuds for the conversations that happen away from a screen. If you would otherwise buy a notetaker and a dictation tool separately, Business at about $24 a month on annual billing is defensible. But the meter is tight below that tier, the free plan forgets everything after 30 days, the API and SSO are Enterprise-only, and the published compliance story is the thinnest here, with no stated model-training policy at all. Buy it for the capture flexibility and the voice layer, ask hard questions about data handling before you point it at client work, and keep your own exports.

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