Circleback
AI meeting notetaker that transcribes virtual and in-person meetings with speaker labels, auto-extracts and assigns action items, and syncs outcomes into apps like Notion, HubSpot, and Linear, with a free tier added on August 31, 2026.
Last verified · 2026-10-23 · by Moe Ameen
Published 2026-08-31 · Updated
Short answer
Circleback is an AI meeting notetaker founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator. It records online and in-person meetings, writes speaker-labeled transcripts in over 100 languages, pulls out action items, and runs automations into tools like Notion, HubSpot, and Linear. A free plan arrived on August 31, 2026, with 30 days of history. Pro costs $15 per user per month.
Key takeaways
- Circleback records meetings and turns them into transcripts, summaries, and action items.
- Free keeps 30 days of history and includes API, MCP, and CLI access.
- Pro is $15 per user per month for unlimited history and all integrations; Business is $25 and Enterprise $35.
- Every output is text, so meetings still need another tool to become posts.
What is Circleback?
Circleback is an AI meeting notetaker founded in 2023 by Ali Haghani and Kevin Jacyna and backed by Y Combinator. It records your online meetings (with a bot or its bot-free desktop app) and in-person conversations, and produces a speaker-labeled transcript, a structured summary of decisions and discussion points, and a list of action items it can assign automatically. It supports over 100 languages, handles technical terms and accents well, and offers mobile and Apple Watch apps.
Its standout layer is automation. Circleback connects to apps like Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, and Linear and can run post-meeting workflows — update a CRM record, open a Linear issue, post a summary to Slack — plus expose MCP, an API, a CLI, and webhooks for custom pipelines. You can also query your transcripts with AI and run contextual search across your entire meeting history to find a specific moment fast.
On August 31, 2026 Circleback introduced a free tier. Its pricing page now lists AI meeting notes, speaker-labeled transcripts, mobile and Apple Watch apps, limited automations, a 30-day meeting and recording history, and API, MCP, and CLI access on Free. Pro is $15 per user per month and adds unlimited meeting history and automations with all integrations; Business ($25) and Enterprise ($35) add admin roles, custom retention, SSO, and HIPAA compliance. Treat these as launch figures and confirm current details on Circleback's site.
The honest framing for a creator: Circleback is a capture-and-organize tool. It turns spoken conversations into accurate, searchable text and pushes the results into your operational stack — but every output is text. It generates no video, images, carousels, captions, or posts, and it publishes nothing to a feed. Turning a transcript into finished, on-brand content is a separate job.
What can you make with Circleback?
- Accurate, speaker-labeled transcripts of virtual and in-person meetings in 100+ languages
- Structured meeting summaries highlighting decisions, key points, and next steps
- Auto-extracted and auto-assigned action items that sync into your project tracker
- A searchable, AI-queryable archive of every past conversation
- Post-meeting automations that update a CRM, open tickets, or post to your team tools
- Text and organization only — Circleback produces no video, images, or feed-ready assets
Why turn Circleback transcripts into content with Kompozy?
The most valuable content a founder or expert produces all week is usually something they said out loud, not something they wrote — a sharp answer on a sales call, a framework explained to a customer, a hot take in a team debrief. That insight normally evaporates. Circleback's real gift is that it now captures it: every meeting becomes a speaker-labeled transcript you can search. But a transcript is inert, and on the free tier it disappears after 30 days. Kompozy is the layer that turns that captured expertise into a content series before it ages out, and the pairing is a clean handoff — Circleback owns capture, Kompozy owns production and distribution.
Feed a Circleback transcript into Kompozy as a source and it mines the best moments into finished formats the notetaker can't touch: a Persona Short narrates your standout line on camera with a face-locked HeyGen avatar; a brand-exact Carousel walks through the framework you explained; Quote Graphics lift the one sentence worth remembering; and a Blog Article plus Email Newsletter go long for the audience that wants depth. Every piece is rewritten under a Persona Brief so a rambling call lands as polished, on-brand copy in your voice, then Autopilot schedules and publishes the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email behind a per-post review. Because Circleback exposes webhooks and an MCP interface, the routing can even be semi-automatic: a finished meeting fires the transcript into your pipeline, and a week of content comes out the other side. Circleback makes your meetings legible; Kompozy makes them content.
- Let Circleback record your call, customer interview, or webinar and generate the speaker-labeled transcript and summary.
- Copy the transcript (or export it while it's inside the 30-day free window) and drop it into Kompozy as a source.
- Pick formats — a persona/avatar short of the best quote, a carousel of the framework, quote graphics, a blog, and a newsletter — all under one Persona Brief voice.
- Let Kompozy reframe each asset per platform (9:16, 1:1, 16:9) so one conversation fits every feed.
- Review each piece in the per-post queue, then let Autopilot schedule and publish across eight social platforms plus blog and email.
What does this look like in Kompozy?
A real quote graphic made in the Kompozy workspace. It's the format we suggest for the one line from a call that's worth repeating.
Who is this for, and who should skip it?
Best for:
- Founders and experts whose best ideas come out on calls
- Teams that want meeting notes pushed into a CRM or tracker automatically
- Anyone who wants to search past meetings by question
Not ideal for:
- People who want posts or video out of it. Circleback outputs text
- Free users who need old meetings. Free history lasts 30 days
- Teams that need SSO or HIPAA on a budget. Both sit on the $35 Enterprise plan
Frequently asked questions
What is Circleback?
Circleback is an AI meeting notetaker, founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator, that records virtual and in-person meetings, transcribes them with speaker labels in 100+ languages, extracts and assigns action items automatically, and syncs the results into apps like Notion, HubSpot, and Linear. It also lets you query transcripts with AI and search your whole meeting history. As of August 31, 2026 it has a free tier.
Can Circleback create social media posts or videos?
No. Circleback outputs transcripts, structured notes, and action items and feeds them into your other tools. It has no video, image, or post generation and no publishing. To turn a meeting into content you pair it with a generation-and-publishing engine like Kompozy, which makes persona/avatar video, carousels, quote graphics, blogs, and newsletters and publishes them.
Is Circleback free?
Circleback added a free tier on August 31, 2026. Free keeps 30 days of meeting and recording history with limited automations, and Pro costs $15 per user per month for unlimited history and automations with all integrations. Confirm current pricing on Circleback's site.
How do I turn a Circleback transcript into published content?
Record the meeting in Circleback, then bring the transcript into Kompozy as a source. Kompozy rewrites the best moments under your Persona Brief and generates formats like a persona/avatar short, a carousel, quote graphics, a blog, and a newsletter — then schedules and publishes across eight social platforms plus blog and email, so one call becomes a week of content.
How do we know this?
We checked every figure, date, and price on this page against the sources listed below on 2026-10-23, including Circleback's live pricing page. We corrected the paid starting price to the $15 Pro figure it shows today. Kompozy plan, format, and platform details come from kompozy.io and kompozy.io/pricing.
Sources
- TechCrunch — Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers (read 2026-10-23)
- Circleback — Pricing (read 2026-10-23)
- Circleback — Home (read 2026-10-23)
- Kompozy — Home (platforms, formats, Persona Brief, autopilot) (read 2026-10-23)
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