# Build a Meeting Notetaker Without Bot Infrastructure > How a team launched an AI notetaker without building meeting infrastructure, using one API for bot join, recording and transcripts. Source: https://meetstream.ai/case-studies/meeting-notetaker-without-infrastructure ## Build a Meeting Notetaker Without Bot Infrastructure How MeetMinutes shipped a meeting-notetaker without writing a single line of bot infrastructure MeetMinutes · Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams · India bots / week running in production week-over-week growth in one sprint lines of bot infrastructure code written MeetMinutes set out to build an AI notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, transcribes the conversation, and pushes structured summaries to its users. The product hypothesis was clear. The engineering surface area underneath it was not. Three platforms, three SDKs, three sets of edge cases. Zoom alone needed an On Behalf Of (OBF) token to capture audio cleanly. Teams needed the Real-time Media Stream pipeline. Google Meet needed browser automation that did not get flagged as a bot. Multiply that by failed joins, waiting-room handling, host approvals, and recordings retention, and the team was looking at a six-month detour from product to plumbing. Rather than build a meeting bot platform inside a meeting notetaker company, the team evaluated buy-versus-build against a single metric: how quickly can we get a paying user a usable summary? MeetStream gave them one HTTPS endpoint to schedule a bot, one webhook to receive the artifacts, and a transcription layer they could swap on the fly. The build path would have taken a quarter of engineering time. The buy path took an afternoon. Within weeks of cutting over, MeetMinutes was running 185 bots per week across all three platforms. That number crossed 185 the same week they hit a +249% week-over-week jump, and it has only climbed since. The engineering team that would have been wiring up Zoom OBF tokens is shipping the AI features users actually pay for. "We never had to think about bot infrastructure. That is the entire point. We picked up an API and shipped a notetaker." Shubham Pilivkar, Lead Developer at MeetMinutes - One API across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, no per-platform SDK glue. One API across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, no per-platform SDK glue. - Per-participant audio shipped on every platform, clean diarization without post-processing tricks. Per-participant audio shipped on every platform, clean diarization without post-processing tricks. - Pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.35 per hour, costs scaled with revenue, not ahead of it. Pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.35 per hour, costs scaled with revenue, not ahead of it. - Customer-side S3 storage on request, data residency without rebuilding the storage layer. Customer-side S3 storage on request, data residency without rebuilding the storage layer. #### "We never had to think about bot infrastructure. That is the entire point. We picked up an API and shipped a notetaker." #### Join over 50 founders who supercharged their email marketing How Much Are You Really Paying with Recall.ai? Recall.ai charges $0.50/hr for bot infra plus $0.15/hr for transcription, $0.65/hr total. MeetStream.ai bundles both at $0.45/hr, or $0.35/hr if you bring your own transcription. #### Build vs Buy +37% in repeat orders with fresh new flows #### Competitive Switch Abandoned cart recovery up by 63% Ready to Stop Overpaying for Meeting Infrastructure? Bot infra at $0.35/hr. All-in with transcription: $0.45/hr. Plus faster latency, output audio, and docs that don't require a PhD. start with $5 free credit No credit card. No sales call. No platform fee. API key in 30 seconds. meetstream.ai provides a single API for meeting bots - join, record, stream, and analyze data from Meet, Teams, and Zoom, so your team can focus on building the AI agent itself. Google Meet Bot Integration Copyright © 2026 MeetStream AI. All Rights Reserved. --- Full site index for agents: https://meetstream.ai/llms.txt API contract (OpenAPI 3.1): https://meetstream.ai/openapi.json MCP discovery: https://meetstream.ai/.well-known/mcp