Donna vs MeetGeek
Donna or MeetGeek? Pick MeetGeek if you want templated recaps, meeting KPIs, and automated distribution. Pick Donna if the meeting record must stay on your own infrastructure and you want analysis beyond summaries — verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read, all from a bot on your own server.
MeetGeek treats meetings as an operations pipeline: record, template, score, distribute. If your problem is recap logistics, it is a solid machine. Donna treats a meeting as evidence to be read closely — and insists the evidence stays in your custody.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | MeetGeek | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | MeetGeek’s cloud (SaaS) | Your own Linux VPS (self-hosted) |
| Where your recordings live | Stored and processed on MeetGeek’s servers | Your server’s disk and your PostgreSQL database — nothing on a vendor cloud |
| How it attends meetings | Bot auto-joins calendar meetings | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar’s iCal feed |
| Meeting video capture | Yes | Yes — screen video + audio, compressed server-side after the call |
| Transcription engine | Vendor-managed | Whisper large-v3 via the Groq API, with your key |
| Who owns the AI keys | MeetGeek | You — your Groq key, your DeepSeek key |
| What you get after the call | Templated summaries, meeting KPIs, automated sharing rules | Eight-section meeting intelligence: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders |
| Pricing model | Free tier; per-seat paid plans gate transcription hours and automations | No per-seat fee — you pay your own server and metered API usage |
Where MeetGeek genuinely wins
- Meeting-ops automation: rules that route recaps to the right people and tools without anyone clicking.
- Meeting KPIs and templates give managers a consistent recap format across teams.
- Calendar-driven auto-join across platforms.
Where Donna wins
- MeetGeek measures meetings (talk ratios, punctuality); Donna interprets them (who conceded, what got dodged, which deadline was soft). Metrics describe the meeting — the read explains it.
- Automation rules distribute copies of your conversations across more inboxes and clouds. Donna keeps one canonical record, on your server, behind your auth.
- Transcription hours are metered per plan tier; Donna’s only meters are your own disk and your own API bill.
The data question, since nobody else leads with it
MeetGeek: Stored and processed on MeetGeek’s servers. Donna: your server’s disk and your postgresql database — nothing on a vendor cloud. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
Questions, answered straight
How is Donna different from MeetGeek?
MeetGeek is a cloud service focused on templated recaps, meeting KPIs, and automated distribution, priced per seat. Donna is self-hosted software focused on deep single-meeting intelligence — decisions, receipts, tensions, power dynamics — with your data never leaving your server.
Does Donna auto-join meetings from my calendar?
Yes. Paste your calendar’s secret iCal address into Donna’s settings and she joins any event with a Google Meet link automatically — no OAuth grant, and the feed URL never leaves your server. MeetGeek’s auto-join spans more platforms; Donna’s covers Google Meet and answers to nobody’s cloud.
Does Donna produce meeting KPIs like MeetGeek?
No. Donna’s report is qualitative, not a scorecard: the two-pass analysis extracts what was decided and at what tradeoff, who committed to what in their exact words, where tension surfaced, and how power moved in the room. It reads like a sharp chief of staff’s memo, not a dashboard.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Donna deploys onto your own VPS in an afternoon: nginx, pm2, PostgreSQL, your API keys. Early access is open — tell us about your team and we’ll get her a seat at your table.
Request early access