Fireflies.ai with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: turn a meeting into action items (tested)

Test files (download and try it yourself)

• meeting-transcript-bloom-and-brew.txt: A short fictional launch meeting with timestamps, written in the shape of a meeting-recorder transcript. It hides two traps: the ad budget changes from €1,500 to €1,200, and one task has no owner.

How the two pieces fit together

Fireflies features from its official pricing page and help centre, read 7 Nov 2026.

We did not record a real call with Fireflies for this test, because that needs an account. Instead we wrote a meeting transcript in the same shape a recorder produces: timestamps, speaker names, one line per turn. You can download it above and run the same test yourself.

The test meeting and its two traps

A fictional shop, Bloom & Brew, plans a holiday gift box. Four people talk through the plan. We hid the kind of details that real meeting notes get wrong:

• The budget changes. At 00:52 the founder says €1,500 for ads; at 01:52 she caps it at €1,200. The right answer is €1,200.
• A task with no owner. At 02:10 someone says the FAQ shipping date needs updating, and nobody takes it. The right answer is “unassigned”.
• A hidden risk. The developer's page is due on 17 November, but he is on leave from the 12th to the 16th.
• A tight schedule. The printed boxes arrive on 20 November and the launch is on 23 November.

One more thing happened by accident. In our first draft of the file, two weekdays did not match their dates. ChatGPT pointed it out before answering. We fixed the file and ran every test again on the corrected version.

The prompt we used (copy it)

The most important words are “If a task has no owner, write unassigned”. Without them, a model tends to fill the owner column with whoever spoke last about the topic.

Results: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini

If we had to send the notes without checking them, we would pick ChatGPT's or Claude's. ChatGPT was the strictest: anything not clearly given to someone stayed unassigned. Claude was the most useful about it, saying who probably owns a task while making clear that nobody said so.

Gemini's summary, budget and risks were right, but one wrong owner is the kind of mistake that causes trouble: Maya would get an e-mail saying she owns the ad campaign. Always read the owner column before you send anything.

Step by step: Fireflies to finished notes

1. Connect Fireflies to your calendar, or use its Chrome extension to record without a bot joining the call.
2. Tell everyone the meeting is being recorded.
3. After the call, open the meeting in Fireflies and copy the transcript.
4. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with the prompt above.
5. Check three things: the final numbers (budgets change during a meeting), the owner column, and every deadline against the calendar.
6. Ask for changes in the same chat, for example: “Make the e-mail shorter and list unassigned tasks first.”

Privacy: what to check before you paste a meeting

• Recording rules differ by country and company. Tell participants and follow your workplace policy.
• Check whether your company allows meeting content in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and which account to use.
• Remove what the task does not need, such as phone numbers, salaries or customer names.
• Check each assistant's data settings, for example whether your chats are used to improve its models.

What Fireflies costs (official prices, 7 November 2026)

USD before tax, per seat, read on Fireflies' pricing page on 7 Nov 2026 from Turkey. Check the total at checkout.

For most people the free plan plus a chatbot is enough to start: Fireflies writes the transcript, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini write the tasks. Pay when the 400-minute storage limit or the 2-hour cap gets in the way. Comparing recorders? See Bluedot vs Fireflies.