Move your team from Claude Cowork to Otter.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Otter — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Claude Cowork is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Otter's automated meeting summaries and action items map to Claude Cowork's meeting synthesis from uploaded transcripts. For Otter → Cowork: export Otter transcripts (TXT or DOCX) and upload to a Cowork task with instructions to generate a structured summary and action items. Specify a custom template for consistent output format. For Cowork → Otter: connect Otter to your calendar; Otter auto-joins meetings, transcribes, and generates summaries without manual file handling.
- Warning: Otter generates summaries and action items automatically after each meeting; Cowork requires manual transcript upload and explicit task instructions.
- Warning: Otter summaries are emailed to meeting participants automatically; Cowork output must be manually distributed.
- Warning: Otter captures meetings live (joins Zoom, Meet, Teams); Cowork does not join or record meetings — it processes existing transcripts only.
- Warning: Cowork produces free-form output in any format the task specifies and can cross-reference multiple meetings in one session; Otter structures summaries around meeting-type templates (custom templates are available on all Otter plans, with per-plan usage limits) rather than arbitrary per-task formats.
Otter AI Chat — asking questions about meeting transcripts — maps to Claude Cowork's multi-source analysis. For Otter → Cowork: upload transcripts to a Cowork task and ask questions conversationally; Cowork can cross-reference multiple transcripts and non-meeting documents in a single session. For Cowork → Otter: use Otter AI Chat during or after meetings to ask questions about the current transcript or across the entire meeting history.
- Warning: Otter AI Chat queries across the user's entire meeting database; Cowork only analyzes documents explicitly uploaded to the current task.
- Warning: Otter AI Chat is available live during meetings for real-time Q&A; Cowork is asynchronous and post-meeting only.
- Warning: Cowork can cross-reference meeting transcripts with non-meeting documents (reports, emails, data files); Otter AI Chat is meeting-transcript-focused.