🔎 Otter now lets you search across all enterprise tools (and launches a Windows app)

Otter continues its transformation from a simple transcriber to a productivity platform: the company launched an enterprise search feature that acts as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) client, allowing it to connect to and pull data from external apps using a standard that several AI providers are adopting. In practice, users can link Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce (coming soon: Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack) and query that information alongside their meeting notes —even automate actions like sending summaries to Notion or drafting emails in Gmail.

The company also redesigned its AI assistant to be present across the interface and understand the context of what the user is viewing (for example, a meeting or a channel) to answer relevant questions at any time.

Separately, Otter brings botless capture to Windows —recording system audio— a feature that had already arrived on Mac. Still, the company says many enterprise customers prefer a notetaker that joins the meeting for transparency and to share notes with all attendees; to avoid bot-swarms, Otter also added a deduplication feature that limits how many bots can join a call.

Quick facts:

• Otter reported 25M users and ~$100M ARR last year; it now reports 35M users.
• Competitors on the same trend: Read AI, Fireflies.ai, Fathom and Granola.

Source: TechCrunch