Skip the 10-tool listicles — each major AI notetaker wins one thing: Granola (bot-free), Otter (live captions), Fireflies (CRM sync), Fathom (free tier). Pick by your one hard requirement.
Your AI notetaker's action items are vague because it captures what was said, not what was meant — so say who does what by when out loud in the meeting, and it files them cleanly.
AI notetakers leak through defaults, not hackers — run a 5-minute check: which meetings to keep it out of, the 5 questions to ask whoever bought it, and the settings to fix today.