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    CoachNova and Fathom or Otter

    Your note taker ends at the transcript. We start there.

    Fathom and Otter are good at exactly what they promise: they capture the call and hand you a transcript. The question is what happens to a coaching session after that. In CoachNova, every session becomes prep for the next one, themes across the engagement, support for your client in between, and eventually a private AI that works from how you coach.

    Fathom or OtterCoachNova
    The job it does
    Fathom or OtterTranscribes any meeting and stops
    CoachNovaTurns the session into prep, notes and themes, then carries it
    Between sessions
    Fathom or OtterNothing. It waits for the next meeting
    CoachNovaMessaging, nudges and your AI carry the work
    What your client gets
    Fathom or OtterNever sees it
    CoachNovaYour approved notes, and your AI when you open it

    What CoachNova changes.

    The recording starts working

    The sessions you already record turn into prep, themes, and support for your client all week.

    An archive that earns

    Recordings that sat in an archive become engagements that continue, paying you monthly.

    Your sessions, your AI

    Your transcripts personalise your AI only, in Frankfurt, and audio is never stored.

    Side by side.

    Fathom or OtterCoachNova
    The job it doesTranscribes any meeting and stopsTurns the session into prep, notes and themes, then carries it
    Between sessionsNothing. It waits for the next meetingMessaging, nudges and your AI carry the work
    What your client getsNever sees itYour approved notes, and your AI when you open it
    Priced byA seat, month after month, coaching or notThe active client, so a quiet month costs less
    How long clients stayUnchanged. An archive extends nothingPast the last session, for as long as they keep it
    4 more differences
    Fathom or OtterCoachNova
    Your revenueA tool cost. It cannot earn for youGrows: continuing clients pay you monthly, at your price
    The transcriptThe product. It goes into an archiveRaw material. It becomes prep, notes and themes
    Work after the callYours. Paste it somewhere, prompt it, edit it into something usableNone. The notes, prep and themes arrive written
    Where data livesVaries by vendor and planFrankfurt. EU residency by default, on every plan
    What each one costs
    Fathom or Otter
    $0 to $30a month, per seat
    Fathom is free to start and $20 for Premium. Otter is $16.99 for Pro and $30 for Business, on monthly billing.
    CoachNova
    €19per active client, a month, excl. VAT
    Everything is included. No tiers, no add-ons and no upgrade when you grow. Paused and finished clients cost nothing.

    You can cancel the note taker. Ours is in the €19. CoachNova records and transcribes the session itself, so this is not a cost you carry twice. What the €19 buys is everything after the transcript: notes and prep written for coaching, themes across the engagement, your client supported between and beyond the sessions, and an AI that works from how you coach.

    Each competitor price is as that company published it in August 2026, in the currency they quote. CoachNova is €19 per active client a month, excl. VAT, everything included, and the first 60 days are free for your whole practice.

    The difference that actually matters.

    The transcript is not the value. The accumulation is
    A note taker treats every session as a one off: record, transcribe, file. Their AI can answer questions about past meetings, but the archive is where it ends: nothing prepares your next session, and nothing reaches your client. CoachNova treats the sessions as one engagement. What happened last time shapes the prep for next time, and the themes that are only visible across months surface on their own.
    The transcript is where your work starts, not where it ends
    Coaches who get real value out of a note taker have built the scaffolding themselves: a custom GPT, a saved prompt, context pasted in every time. That is a workflow you maintain, session after session, and it breaks the moment you skip a step. Without it the output is generic, because a general summariser has no idea which of the last hour mattered. In CoachNova the coaching context is already there, so the notes, the prep brief and the themes arrive written rather than waiting to be assembled.
    Meeting summaries are the wrong shape for coaching
    Action points and owners fit a project call. A coaching session needs what moved, what your client committed to, and the line worth remembering next time. That is why our notes are read against the ICF PCC markers instead of a meeting template.

    A note taker hands you the raw material and the workflow to go with it. CoachNova hands you the finished work.

    And nothing reaches your client from a note taker
    The transcript sits with you. In CoachNova, the notes you approve go to your client, the work continues between and beyond sessions, and ten sessions in you have built a private AI that only your practice owns.
    And a transcript is a record someone has to hold
    The hour your client was most honest in becomes a file. Worth knowing where it sits, who processes it, and on whose agreement. CoachNova holds session records in the EU, signs a data processing agreement naming you as the controller, discards the audio once a session is transcribed, and names every provider that touches it. Whatever you use, that is the short list of questions to ask of it.
    Only one of them comes with other coaches
    A note taker you run alone. CoachNova comes with the coaches building it: a monthly community call where the roadmap follows the coaches’ vote, fellow coaches who onboard new ones, and a monthly discovery session where coaches already working this way take any question live. You are choosing the company you keep as much as the tool you buy.
    In a coach's words

    "It is a note taker, it is a client helper with tasks and actions, and it helps me prepare my next sessions."

    Adger de Boer, Leadership coach, ICF PCC, Amsterdam

    Which one fits you.

    Pick Fathom or Otter if

    You mainly need transcripts across every kind of meeting, for a whole team, at the lowest price per seat.

    Pick CoachNova if

    You want a turnkey private AI built from the sessions you already record: prep, themes, client support, and a practice that expands in impact and revenue.

    Looking for a Fathom or Otter alternative built only for coaching? That is what CoachNova is.

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