Donna vs Read AI
Donna or Read AI? Pick Read AI if you want quantified meeting metrics — engagement, sentiment and talk-time scores across your calendar. Pick Donna if you want analysis beyond summaries — six lenses, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read — from a Flocci product that treats sharing as a decision.
Read AI represents the quantitative wing of this market: dashboards, engagement scores, talk-time ratios. It is genuinely useful for spotting patterns across hundreds of meetings. Donna is the qualitative counterpart — one meeting, read closely, with the evidence attached — in a private Flocci workspace.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | Read AI | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| How it attends meetings | Bot joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar |
| Meeting video capture | Yes, with recordings and highlights on paid tiers | Yes — screen video and audio, compressed after the call |
| Transcription | Vendor-managed | Flocci Speech Recognition, with real speaker names from Meet captions |
| What you get after the call | Summaries, action items, plus engagement, sentiment and speaker metrics | 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 | Free tier limited by monthly transcripts; per-seat plans above it | Credits by usage — no per-seat fee |
Where Read AI genuinely wins
- Quantified meeting analytics across a whole calendar — trends over time that a per-meeting narrative report does not produce.
- Coverage beyond meetings, extending the same analysis to email and messaging.
- Broad platform and app support, including mobile and a browser extension.
Where Donna wins
- A score is unarguable and unactionable. Donna gives you the quote instead — the objection that was answered with a subject change, the commitment that came with a soft deadline — which is what a review can actually interrogate.
- Scoring how individuals speak in meetings creates its own workplace-surveillance problem. Donna analyses the meeting, not the employee, and the report lives in a private Flocci archive you control access to.
- Sentiment inference is a model’s opinion about a tone of voice. The room read is built from observable behaviour — who deferred, who was talked over, who changed position — each anchored to a timestamp you can check.
The read, since summaries are not the product
Read AI: Summaries, action items, plus engagement, sentiment and speaker metrics. Donna: Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| Read AI | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 5 meeting transcripts per month, 1-hour cap | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Pro $15/user/month annual or $19.75 monthly; Enterprise $22.50 or $29.75; Enterprise+ $29.75 or $39.75 | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
Read AI’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
Does Donna score meetings or participants?
No. There are no engagement, sentiment or charisma scores. Every finding is a claim with a quote and a timestamp behind it, which is a deliberate design choice rather than a missing feature.
Can Donna show trends across many meetings like Read AI?
She carries open commitments forward and counts repeats — a blocker on its third appearance gets named — and Ask Donna queries the whole archive. What she does not produce is a metrics dashboard of speaking behaviour.
Which is safer for employee-related meetings?
Anything touching performance, grievances or compensation argues for a private archive and explicit sharing, which is how Donna is built. It is also worth asking whether scoring individuals in those meetings is something you want a vendor doing at all.
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.