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 server (privately hosted) |
| Where your recordings live | Stored and processed on MeetGeek’s servers | Your server’s disk and your own 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 | Flocci Speech Recognition, with your key |
| Who owns the AI keys | MeetGeek | You — your Flocci Speech Recognition and Flocci Intelligence keys |
| What you get after the call | Templated summaries, meeting KPIs, automated sharing rules | Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: 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 — credit-metered usage on the hosted service, or only your own infrastructure and API usage when deployed privately |
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 own database — nothing on a vendor cloud. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| MeetGeek | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 3 hours of transcription per month, 2-hour meeting cap | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Pro $9.99/user/month; Business $17; Enterprise custom (adds on-premise storage) | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
MeetGeek’s figures were read from their own pricing page on 29 July 2026; check it before you buy, because plans change without notice. Donna’s current credit costs live on your billing page at account.flocci.in.
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 privately 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
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.