# tl;dv — AI Meeting Assistants & Notetakers

tl;dv by tldx Solutions GmbH holds a panel rating of 3.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-11-06. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: tldx Solutions GmbH (https://tldv.io)
- Category: [AI Meeting Assistants & Notetakers](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/tldv
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/tldv/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/tldv/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-06 · evaluated 2026-11-06 · oldest source captured 2026-11-05

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: tldx Solutions GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 5 Nov 2026
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU and Europe [S10]
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S19]

## The panel's verdict

tl;dv is an AI meeting recorder and notetaker from tldx Solutions GmbH of Aachen, scored by the bench strongest on integrations and workflow at 7-8 and steady at 7 on capture and transcription and on summaries and knowledge: bot-free recording across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, WhatsApp and Discord, real-time transcription in more than thirty languages including German, structured minutes with assignable action items, a native HubSpot connector with per-field prompt mapping, and a documented REST API, webhooks and an MCP server — the API labels itself alpha. Weakest is consent and co-determination at a uniform 4: the terms put collecting every participant's consent on the recording user, and the judges found no public information on how guests are notified, how a participant can opt out, or on works-agreement and DPIA support. The judges split by a single point on sovereignty 7-8, data control and administration 6-7 and pricing transparency 6-7: lower sovereignty marks reflect the US-selectable AI hosting region and unstated transcription-provider locations, lower data-control marks the fixed retention rule, and lower pricing marks the contact-us-only Enterprise tier.

**Speaks for it:**
- Bot-free recording covers Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp and Discord, with a desktop app for other platforms and upload of audio and video files.
- Minutes are organized by topic with built-in and custom templates, action items assignable to team members, and a searchable library with an Ask-AI agent over the whole transcript archive.
- A native HubSpot connector maps meeting content to CRM fields through a prompt per field and can keep internal calls out of the CRM, alongside a documented REST API, webhooks and an MCP server.
- The contracting entity is tldx Solutions GmbH of Aachen under German law, with primary processing in the EEA on named infrastructure and a published subprocessor list, data processing agreement and standard contractual clauses.
- Customer content is contractually excluded from AI model training, metadata shared with Anthropic is anonymized, and AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, single sign-on with SCIM provisioning and Enterprise activity logs are stated.

**Held against it:**
- The terms put collecting every participant's consent on the recording user, and we found no public information on how external guests are notified or how a participant can opt out.
- Published retention is a fixed rule — three months for free users and until account deletion for paying users — and we found no public information on centrally configurable retention periods or on discarding audio after transcription.
- The captured pages give different figures for the SOC 2 attestation, showing Type I on one page and Type II on another.
- The AI hosting region is selectable between Europe and the US, and we found no public information on where the transcription providers AssemblyAI and ElevenLabs process.
- The REST API declares itself version alpha with no sandbox yet, the Enterprise tier is "Contact us" only, and we found no public information on monthly-billing prices or VAT treatment.

**Best for:**
- Your team records on Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams and wants bot-free capture that also works on Slack, WhatsApp and Discord, with transcription in German among more than thirty languages.
- Your sales team works in HubSpot and wants each call matched to the right record with fields filled from a prompt per field, minutes syncing a minute or two after the call.
- You want to build custom workflows on a documented REST API with webhooks and an MCP server.
- You want a German-contracted vendor with primary processing in the EEA, a published subprocessor list, a data processing agreement and standard contractual clauses.

**Avoid if:**
- You are introducing recording under co-determination and need documented guest notice, a participant opt-out, works-agreement material or DPIA support — we found no public information on these.
- You need centrally configurable retention periods or audio discarded after transcription — published retention is a fixed vendor rule.
- You must rule out US processing — the AI hosting region is selectable between Europe and the US, and the published subprocessor list names the transcription providers and others without stating their locations.
- You need a costed enterprise deployment up front — Enterprise is priced "Contact us" only and we found no public information on monthly-billing prices, minimum seats or VAT treatment.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Management Consultant | The Sales Team Lead | The Works Council Chair | The Data Protection Officer | The IT Lead | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Recording, transcription & languages | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Summaries, action items & meeting knowledge | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Integrations, API & workflow | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 |
| Consent, participant rights & works council | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Retention, AI training & administration | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3.5/5** | **3.5/5** | **3/5** | **3.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** |

### The judges

- **The Management Consultant** (v1.0): Partner at a twelve-person management consultancy in Munich with six client calls a day, half in German, half in English, and workshops in the client's meeting room. Writes the minutes at night and wants that to stop. Wants accurate German transcripts with the right names, minutes by meeting type with decisions and action items, capture of in-person workshops without a laptop on the table, and a promise in writing that client conversations train nobody's model.
- **The Sales Team Lead** (v1.0): Leads eight account executives at a software vendor for the German Mittelstand. Discovery calls run on Teams and Zoom, and the CRM is only as good as the notes someone found time to type. Does not want a coaching platform that scores the team: wants the call summary, next steps and the fields that matter written into HubSpot after every call, a follow-up email draft, and prospects told politely that the call is recorded.
- **The Works Council Chair** (v1.0): Chairs the works council of a machine builder with 2,300 employees in Baden-Württemberg. Management wants a notetaker in every Teams meeting; the council has to agree to it under § 87 BetrVG first. Wants to know who is told that a recording runs and who can say no, whether talk time or engagement scores per person exist and can be switched off for good, how long recordings are kept, and material the vendor provides for a works agreement.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Data protection officer of a private bank in Frankfurt that falls under DORA. Has to write the data protection impact assessment before the first recording. Reads the subprocessor list before the feature page, because the language model that reads the transcript is a processor too, and wants its name and region, contractual exclusion from training, retention and deletion by policy, voice profiles explained, and a DPA that matches what the security page claims.
- **The IT Lead** (v1.0): Head of IT at a 450-person engineering services firm on Microsoft 365, where a dozen employees already signed up for free notetakers with their work address. Wants one tool for everyone instead: single sign-on and SCIM, admin policies for when the assistant joins and what may be shared outside the company, retention set centrally, audit logs, Teams and SharePoint working properly, and a seat price that holds at four hundred users.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "99% accuracy in 100 languages" turn a German meeting into English nonsense, a bot that joined a meeting its owner never attended and mailed the summary to every guest, and an action item no one in the room had agreed to. Asks which model wrote the summary and where it runs, whether each statement can be traced to the transcript, who told the external participants, what "we do not train on your data" covers in the DPA — and how the archive leaves.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Activity logs: Enterprise [S8]
- AI anonymization: yes [S9]
- AI training: no [S9]
- AI transfer safeguards: EU standard data protection clauses (SCCs) [S13]
- Anthropic partner: Anthropic · yes [S15]
- Badges: SOC2 · GDPR · EU hosting · Privately hosted AI on request · EU US Privacy Shield · EU AI Act [S15]
- Badges: SOC2 compliant · GDPR compliant · hosted and stored in the EU · privately hosted AI on request · EU US Privacy Shield · EU AI Act compliant [S9]
- Badges: yes · yes · 2M+ [S18]
- Cybersecurity attestation: Cybersecurity - Attestation of Engagement [S10]
- Data centers: yes · AES-256 [S15]
- Data processing record: yes [S9]
- Datacenter certifications: ISO 27001 · PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1 · SOC 1 · SOC 2 [S13]
- Encryption: yes · yes · yes [S15]
- Encryption: Enterprise-level encryption for data in transit and at rest [S16]
- Encryption: AES-256 [S9]
- Encryption: yes · yes [S3]
- Encryption at rest: AES-256 [S20]
- GDPR: yes [S10]
- GDPR: yes [S13]
- GDPR: yes [S9]
- GDPR: yes · yes [S3]
- GDPR: yes [S20]
- GDPR SOC 2: yes · yes · yes [S18]
- Gdvr processing records: yes [S20]
- No AI training: no [S13]
- No AI training on customer data: no [S19]
- No profiling: no [S13]
- Owasp: yes [S20]
- Penetration test: Penetration Test 2026 - Attestation [S10]
- Privacy regulation: complies with German and EU privacy regulations [S12]
- Private AI: Enterprise · yes [S8]
- Security contact email: security@tldv.io [S10]

**Data**
- Bereavement options: access or export content · permanent deletion · ownership transfer · contact info changes [S12]
- Breach notification: yes [S13]
- Collected types: customer personally identifiable information · employee personally identifiable information · credit card information · personal health information [S10]
- Deletion consequence: yes [S12]
- Helpcenter: yes [S9]
- Log retention: 10 [S13]
- Min age: 16 [S13]
- No sale: no [S13]
- Recording retention: until account deletion · 3 [S13]
- Retention info: data retention details published in help center [S2]
- Retention reference: data storage details referred to help center [S14]
- User recording access: no [S12]

**Hosting**
- AI region option: yes · EU · USA [S13]
- Certifications: ISO 27001 · PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1 · SOC 1 · SOC 2 [S9]
- Certifications: ISO 27001 · PCI DSS Level 1 · SOC 1 · SOC 2 [S20]
- Data storage: S3 on Wasabi [S20]
- Datacenter locations: Germany · Germany · Finland · Germany [S13]
- Developed in germany: developed in Germany and worldwide [S14]
- EU only: yes [S20]
- Origin: Germany [S16]
- Providers: Google Cloud Platform · Amazon Web Services [S13]
- Providers: Google Cloud Platform · AWS · Hetzner [S9]
- Providers: Google Cloud Platform · AWS · Hetzner [S20]
- Region: EU [S10]
- Region: EEA [S13]
- Region: Europe · yes [S9]
- Region choice: yes [S19]
- Storage: GCP · dedicated Hetzner servers · Wasabi (S3) [S9]

**Integrations**
- Airtable workflow: Workflow: Microsoft Teams to Airtable populating tables with meeting insights, attendee info, action items [S17]
- API access by plan: API exportability depends on the organizer's plan; sharing in UI does not grant API export rights [S6]
- API capabilities: yes · yes [S18]
- API key auth: x-api-key header [S6]
- API key page: https://tldv.io/app/settings/personal-settings/api-keys [S6]
- API version: alpha · v1alpha1 [S6]
- App count: 5000 [S5]
- Asana: Asana · sync AI summaries, create tasks [S5]
- Auth method: OAuth · no [S18]
- Box: Box · Zoom · meeting storage [S5]
- Box workflow: Workflow: Google Meet to Box transfer of key insights [S17]
- Categories: Calendar · Collaboration · CRMs · Note Taking · Project Management · Storage · Video Conferencing [S5]
- Clickup: ClickUp · push meeting notes, action items, video clips [S5]
- Clickup workflow: Workflow: Google Meet to ClickUp turning meeting highlights into tasks with AI summaries, transcripts, timestamped video links [S17]
- Count: 6000+ [S15]
- Count: 6000 [S20]
- Count: 6000 [S2]
- CRM autofill: CRM auto-fill mapped from AI meeting minutes template fields [S3]
- Discord workflow: Workflow: Google Meet to Discord sharing discussions and insights [S17]
- Dropbox: Dropbox · integrate meetings into Dropbox [S5]
- Ecosystem: 6000+ [S9]
- Enterprise automation: Enterprise [S6]
- Field mapping: prompt per field · yes [S18]
- Field mapping limitation: text · multi-select [S18]
- Folders search: .all · .personal · .team · .organization · .name · .meetingIds [S6]
- Footer count: 6000 [S16]
- Footer count: 6000 [S3]
- Free plan API access: yes · no [S6]
- Greenhouse: Greenhouse · Microsoft Teams · log candidate feedback and interview summaries [S5]
- Health check: .v1alpha1_health [S6]
- Highlights deprecated: yes · .meetings_notes_endpoint [S6]

**Legal**
- Address: Aachen · Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee 51 · Germany · 52074 [S11]
- Address: Aachen · Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee 51 · Germany · 52074 [S12]
- Commercial register: Amtsgericht Aachen · HRB 23730 [S11]
- DPA: yes [S10]
- Entity: Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany · Tldx Solutions GmbH · Amtsgericht Aachen · Mr. Raphaël ALLSTADT · HRB 23730 [S13]
- Entity name: tldx Solutions GmbH [S11]
- Entity name: tldx Solutions GmbH [S12]
- Free plan name: Free forever [S12]
- Governing law: German law · district court of Aachen, Germany [S12]
- Language precedence: yes [S12]
- Liability cap: amount paid in last 12 months [S12]
- Made in: Made in Germany and worldwide [S15]
- Origin: Made in Germany and worldwide [S17]
- VAT id: DE330894275 [S11]
- Version date: May 18, 2026 · May 18th, 2026 [S12]

**Pricing**
- Annual discount: Annual billing advertised as up to 40% off [S8]
- Business concurrent recordings: Business · 3 [S12]
- Business price: Business · annual · 29 [S8]
- Business weekly recording cap: Business · 120 [S12]
- Enterprise price: Enterprise · yes · yes [S8]
- Enterprise usage based: Optional usage-based pricing available [S8]
- Free concurrent recordings: Free · 0 [S12]
- Free price: Free · 0 [S8]
- Free tier: yes [S19]
- Free tier: Free forever tier [S15]
- Free tier: yes · yes [S12]
- Free tier: yes · yes [S3]
- Free tier: yes [S4]
- Free weekly recording cap: Free · 40 [S12]
- Pro concurrent recordings: Pro · 2 [S12]
- Pro price: Pro · annual · 18 [S8]
- Pro weekly recording cap: Pro · 80 [S12]
- Refund policy: yes [S12]

**Product**
- Action item assignment: Assignment of action items to team members [S16]
- Action item assignment: Comment and assign meeting moments or action items to teammates [S3]
- Age restriction: 16 [S12]
- AI highlights action items: AI highlights · action items · key insights [S14]
- AI hosting regions: Europe · US · yes [S9]
- AI insights: yes [S2]
- AI modules: AI Agents for Meetings · AI Agents for Sales · Recording & Transcription · AI Notes & Summaries · Multi-Meeting AI Insights · Sales Coaching & Playbooks · Video to Text Transcriber [S17]
- AI objection handling: Business [S8]
- AI reports business: Business [S8]
- AI summaries: yes [S15]
- AI training customer data: no [S20]
- AI vendor: Anthropic [S20]
- Application security: NodeJS · yes [S9]
- Auto distribution: Automatic sending of AI meeting minutes to stakeholders [S16]
- Auto join setting: Auto-join settings let tl;dv auto-capture meetings with a video-conferencing link [S17]
- Auto recording: Automatic meeting recording, configurable per user or team [S16]
- Auto recording: Auto-recording configurable per user or whole team; auto-join or manual recording [S3]
- Auto send on end: Auto-send minutes to participants when call ends, for individual or recurring meetings [S3]
- Auto send participants: Minutes automatically sent to all participants after meeting ends [S16]
- Automatic recording: yes [S14]
- Automatic recording: yes [S2]
- Botfree recording: yes · Zoom · Google Meet · MS Teams · Slack · WhatsApp · Discord [S7]
- Browser based: Available entirely online, no installation [S15]
- Capture elements: summaries · action items · objections · decisions · next steps [S3]
- Clip creation: yes [S14]
- Clip generation: yes [S15]
- Clip generation: yes [S2]
- Coaching playbooks: yes [S15]
- Competitive use prohibited: yes [S12]
- Consent collection: Automated consent collection supporting GDPR, PDPA, DPDP, PDPL and more [S19]
- Core capabilities: automated recording · transcription · summaries · decisions · next steps [S19]

**Subprocessors**
- Anthropic: Anthropic · AI processing of meeting data [S9]
- Cloudflare: Cloudflare · Worldwide (Local to Customers) · Cloud monitoring [S10]
- Google cloud platform: Google Cloud Platform · Europe · Cloud provider [S10]
- Hetzner: Hetzner · Europe · Infrastructure & Hosting [S10]
- List: Anthropic · Google Vertex · Deel · Hubspot · Google Cloud · Hetzner · Wasabi · Stripe · Mixpanel · Cloudflare · Sentry · AssemblyAI · ElevenLabs · CustomerIO · Gmail · Intercom · Sentry · Paragon · Slack · Gmail [S13]
- Wasabi: Wasabi · Europe · Data Storage [S10]

**Support**
- Free support: Free · AI chat · self-serve help center [S8]
- General contact: hello@tldv.io [S12]
- Privacy contact: privacy@tldv.io · bereavement and POA requests [S12]
- Security contact: security@tldv.io [S9]
- Termination contact: support@tldv.io · account cancellation [S12]
- Trust center: Trust Center · Security · Privacy · Terms of Service · API Documentation · Pricing · Blog [S7]
- Vulnerability disclosure: privacy@tldv.io · 24 [S9]
- Vulnerability disclosure: privacy@tldv.io · 24 [S20]

180 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/tldv

## Questions

### Is tl;dv European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies tl;dv as EU-Made.

### Where does tl;dv store data?

The default storage location for customer data is not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 5 Nov 2026. The vendor’s pages mention the EU and Europe as hosting locations, per [the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/19073).

### Does tl;dv have a free plan?

Yes. tl;dv has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 5 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/19114).

### What are the best alternatives to tl;dv?

As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates [MeetGeek (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/meetgeek), [Noota (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/noota) and [Jamie (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/jamie) highest among the other 14 AI Meeting Assistants & Notetakers products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [MeetGeek](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/meetgeek) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [tl;dv alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/meeting-assistants/tldv/alternatives).

## Head-to-head

- [tl;dv vs Fireflies.ai](https://whats-best.ai/compare/fireflies-vs-tldv.md)

## What this page leaves out

- 29 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 13 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 9 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://tldv.io/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S2] Features page (recording and transcription): https://tldv.io/features/meeting-recordings-transcriptions/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S3] Features page (AI meeting minutes): https://tldv.io/features/ai-meeting-minutes/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S4] Features page (supported languages): https://tldv.io/features/languages/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S5] Integrations page: https://tldv.io/integrations/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S6] API documentation: https://doc.tldv.io/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S7] Help centre: https://intercom.help/tldv/en (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S8] Pricing page: https://tldv.io/app/pricing/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S9] Security / trust page: https://tldv.io/features/security-commitment/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S10] Trust center: https://trust.tldv.io/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S11] Legal notice: https://tldv.io/imprint/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S12] Terms of service: https://tldv.io/terms/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S13] Privacy policy: https://tldv.io/privacy/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S14] Recording, transcription & languages — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/de/features/meeting-recordings-transcriptions/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S15] Recording, transcription & languages — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/video-to-text-transcription/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S16] Summaries, action items & meeting knowledge — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/de/features/ai-meeting-minutes/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S17] Integrations, API & workflow — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/integrations/apps/google-calendar/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S18] Integrations, API & workflow — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/integrations/apps/hubspot/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S19] Retention, AI training & administration — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/enterprise-governance/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- [S20] Retention, AI training & administration — found from sitemap: https://tldv.io/de/features/security-commitment/ (checked 2026-11-05)

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