Khosla Ventures Backed Fireflies.ai released a set of domain-specific “mini apps” on Wednesday, Wednesday, a note-taking app powered by AI, which extracts insights from automatically filling transcripts.
The wide availability of automated speech recognition models and generation AI has registered impressive growth by meeting intelligence startups like Otter, Read Ai, Circleback, Krisp, and Granola. Similarly, Firefly sees an eight-fold increase in users, achieving profitability, according to co-founder and CEO Krish Lamineni.
To further drive growth, startups have released over 200 mini apps within the platform for a variety of roles and use cases, including sales, marketing, recruitment, operations, management, customer support, customer success, and more.
For example, there is the BANT Sales app. This extracts details such as budgets and sales team timelines. Agent Performance Feedback Generator generates customer service agent performance insights and provides coaching tips. Elsewhere, the Product Launch Planning app creates product launch strategies.
If you have a transcription of a meeting, you can write a prompt to gather some insights using tools like Circleback. However, using a mini app, Fireflies are trying to make the process easier by removing the need for the process.
“There's a lot of time after a meeting to get insights from the conversation,” Ramineni told TechCrunch. “We want to close that gap with these apps. With these apps, fireflies can start these actions right after the meeting, making people more productive.”
Users can also send output from these mini-apps to other platforms through integration with Salesforce, Hubspot, Asana, Jira, Bamboohr, Greenhouse, Slack and Microsoft teams. For example, a meeting host can choose to share a meeting overview with a Slack manager after the meeting is over.
Firefly says that users can deploy these apps on a single base and create their own apps for more customized output. In the future, the company said these apps will be able to be shared within user groups.
Beyond the mini app, Firefly works to improve meeting knowledge by introducing a meeting overview to inform users about participants and organizations. Ramineni said the company is testing how users can include “digital twins” in meetings that can handle basic queries, similar to implementation apps like Zoom tested.