Collato
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Collato transforms meeting content into customized documents, ensuring data security and enhancing team collaboration.
What is Collato?
Collato is an AI meeting assistant and notetaker that helps transform meeting content, including transcripts, images, and audio, into customized documents using customizable templates. It aims to save time by providing accurate transcripts and enabling quick generation of documents from notes. Collato is SOC 2 certified, GDPR compliant, and securely encrypted to ensure data protection.
The platform was created by co-founders Ivo & Sebastian to facilitate knowledge sharing within teams and improve collaboration by breaking down barriers between different departments and tools used within organizations.
Collato offers a free version allowing users to record up to 10 hours of meetings per month with unlimited document creation. Users can upgrade to the PRO plan if they need additional recording hours beyond the free plan limit.
The AI assistant in Collato is designed to generate concise summaries, extract important points from documents, provide instant insights sourced from company data, and improve productivity by organizing documents and tasks efficiently. Users can invite as many people as they want to their organization and set different user roles under settings.
Who created Collato?
Collato was created by co-founders Ivo and Sebastian. They met in 2010 at Zalando, where they realized the importance of creating environments that empower teams. Feeling that existing technology often hindered progress, they envisioned Collato as a solution to facilitate knowledge and idea sharing within teams by streamlining workflows and breaking down barriers between different departments and tools used within organizations.
What is Collato used for?
- Turn meetings into documents by capturing transcripts, images, and audio
- Including additional context by recording voice memos, photos, or sketches
- Generating documents from notes using customizable templates
- Recording up to 10 hours of meetings for free with unlimited document creation
- Enhancing productivity by organizing documents, tracking deadlines, and assisting with task management
- Improving collaboration within product teams by providing instant insights and sourcing knowledge from the company's database
- Generating concise summaries for documents to save time on manual writing and editing
- Helping users focus on creativity, innovation, and collaboration by reducing mundane tasks
- Fostering efficiency and success by streamlining work processes and enhancing productivity
- Facilitating smooth integration into existing workflows for various team members like product managers, designers, and developers
- Record and Transcribe Meetings
- Turn transcripts, images, and audio into tailored documents
- Include additional context like voice memos, photos, or sketches
- Turn notes into documents using customizable templates
- Generate concise summaries of documents
- Provide instant insights from company knowledge
- Organize documents and keep track of deadlines
- Enhance productivity and streamline work processes
- Save time on manual tasks like writing and editing documents
- Improve collaboration, innovation, and decision-making within product teams
Who is Collato for?
- Product Managers
- Designers
- Developers
- Members of Product Teams
- AI meeting assistant
- Notetaker
- Note Taker
How to use Collato?
To use Collato effectively, follow these steps:
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Record & Transcribe Meetings:
- Use Collato's meeting assistant to capture accurate transcripts of meetings.
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Include Additional Context:
- Add voice memos, whiteboard photos, or sketches to capture diverse forms of inspiration.
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Turn Notes into Documents:
- Select from customizable templates or create your own to instantly generate documents from your notes.
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Free Usage:
- Enjoy up to 10 hours of meetings recorded per month for free, with unlimited document creation.
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Upgrade Options:
- If you reach the free plan limit, consider upgrading to the PRO plan for extended recording hours.
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Admin Controls:
- Manage user roles and invite team members to collaborate within the shared Collato organization account.
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Payment Methods:
- Choose from various payment methods like credit cards, PayPal, and direct debit for PRO or BUSINESS plans.
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Data Security:
- Benefit from military-grade encryption, GDPR compliance, and SOC II certification for secure data handling.
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Productivity Features:
- Utilize AI assistant for instant insights, concise summaries, and improved productivity for product teams.
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Flexible Plans:
- Decide between monthly and yearly payment options for added flexibility in managing subscriptions.
Collato streamlines document generation and knowledge sharing, offering a user-friendly interface for enhanced efficiency and collaboration within product teams.
Pros
- Aids in capturing inspiration in various forms for a complete picture
- Easy to integrate into existing workflow
- Time-saving capabilities
- Transforms meeting transcripts into tailored documents using customizable templates
- Saves hours each week by providing accurate transcripts and customizable documentation
- Includes additional context like voice memos, photos, and sketches to turn into text
- Provides secure encryption with military-grade encryption and TLS
- Offers unlimited AI documents from meetings for free, recording up to 10 hours per month
- Helps make better decisions based on accurate and up-to-date information
- Enhances productivity
- Conducts SOC 2 audit on its knowledge management system ensuring security
- Ensures GDPR compliance with required security measures
- Easy to navigate user-friendly interface for seamless integration and workflow enhancement
- Increases productivity by organizing documents and tracking deadlines
- Assists in keeping teams on top of tasks and deadlines
Cons
- Unused recording hours do not roll over to the next month
- No discounts provided to students or NGOs
- No ability to roll over unused recording hours to the next month
- No discounts offered to students or NGOs
- No automatic rollover of unused recording hours to the next month
- Monthly recording limits are set back to zero every 30 days
- No student or NGO discounts available
- No rollover of unused recording hours
- Recording limits reset to zero every 30 days after registering
- No rollover of recording hours to the next month
Collato FAQs
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Can I use Collato for free?
- Yes, absolutely. If you want to gain first-hand experience with Collato, we offer a FREE version that lets you record meetings or audio notes of up to 10 hours per month. No credit card is required. The resulting transcripts can be turned into an unlimited number of different summaries or documents. Once you reach 10 hours of monthly recordings, you may or may not upgrade to the PRO plan.
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What is an “hour of recording”?
- Collato starts counting time recorded if any recording is added to Collato in one of three ways: First, Collato’s “meeting assistant” joins a meeting via an email invite. Second, recording audio, such as voice notes, directly from within your Collato account. Third, a recorded audio/or video file is uploaded as a note/input source to the Collato account. In all cases, every minute of that recording is counted, no matter if the recording is later re-recorded or deleted. The time of recording is always attributed to an individual seat.
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What happens if I reach my monthly recording limit?
- If the 10 hours of the FREE plan (50 hours for the PRO plan) are reached throughout the month, you can easily upgrade to a higher plan to continue recording. And no worries, this is not done automatically. You get to choose whether you want to upgrade or wait for the new month when your recording limit is set back to zero. You can then record another 10 hours for the FREE plan (50 hours for the PRO plan) of meetings or audio notes. By the way, any recording still running while the limit is exceeded is not interrupted or stopped.
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Can unused recording hours be rolled over to the next month?
- No, any unused recording hours from one month do not roll over to the next month.
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How can I upgrade my plan to PRO or BUSINESS?
- Once a user reaches the monthly limit of recordings, the admin of that organization’s Collato account will get an email asking him/her to approve the upgrade to the next plan. Once approved, the recording limit will instantly jump to the limit of the next higher plan. Users can also become either PRO or BUSINESS users by invitation: Admins can invite users to either plan in the “Settings” in their admin account.
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Who is the admin of my Collato account?
- If you are the first user to open a Collato account, the admin is you by default. With an increasing number of users of a shared Collato company account, you can set different user roles under Settings.
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How many people can I add to my organization?
- You can invite as many people as you want to your organization. They will be able to try Collato out within the limits of the FREE plan.
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What happens if I downgrade my plan?
- Admins can revoke PRO or BUSINESS user status anytime, limiting the users to 10 hours of recording for the FREE plan (or 50 hours of recording if someone gets downgraded from BUSINESS plan to PRO plan). And no worries, all existing recordings will still be available and accessible in your Collato account.
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Collato reviews
Elena Rodriguez
January 14, 2025
What do you like most about using Collato?
I appreciate the idea behind Collato and how it aims to streamline meeting documentation. The customizable templates are a nice touch, allowing for some personalization.
What do you dislike most about using Collato?
The functionality feels a bit limited for my needs. I often find that the AI's summaries miss some key points from our discussions, which can be frustrating.
What problems does Collato help you solve, and how does this benefit you?
While it does help in organizing meeting notes, I still find myself having to manually edit and add information. It's a good start, but not quite where I need it to be.
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Javier Mendez
January 15, 2025
What do you like most about using Collato?
Collato's ability to record and transcribe meetings is impressive. The transcripts are usually accurate and it saves me a lot of time when preparing follow-up documents.
What do you dislike most about using Collato?
The free version is somewhat limiting in terms of recording hours. I often run out of the 10-hour limit, which is a bit frustrating for a busy team.
What problems does Collato help you solve, and how does this benefit you?
It helps consolidate information from various meetings, making it easier for our team to collaborate on projects. The insights it provides from past meetings can be quite beneficial when making decisions.
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Thandiwe Nkosi
December 13, 2024
What do you like most about using Collato?
The idea of having everything in one place is great. I like that I can easily create documents from meeting notes without much hassle.
What do you dislike most about using Collato?
The user interface could be more intuitive. Sometimes it takes me longer than expected to find certain features or to navigate through the app.
What problems does Collato help you solve, and how does this benefit you?
It helps in organizing our meeting notes, but I wish it could integrate better with other tools we use. The lack of integrations is a missed opportunity for enhancing our workflow.
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