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tl;dv

tldx Solutions GmbH ·tldv.io· As of: 2026-07-30

Records what was actually said in sales, customer and hiring calls and makes it searchable and analysable, instead of leaving it to individual memory and hand-written notes.

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Our verdict

Recording a call and summarising it automatically is no longer a differentiator. Without it you run a CRM full of empty fields, you lose context at every handover, and you train new people on anecdotes instead of real conversations. With it you stand exactly where your competitors stand. The edge only appears where calls are turned systematically into product, pricing and objection-handling decisions, and no recording tool does that on its own.

Evidence:As of 2026-07-30Legal entity, register court, commercial register number, managing directors and VAT IDOpen sourceAs of 2026-07-30Plan names and prices: free, Pro at 18 euros annually and 29 euros monthly, Business at 29 euros annually and 39 euros monthly per user, Enterprise on request; ten AI meetings cap on the free plan; activity logs, SCIM and custom SSO only in the Enterprise planOpen sourceAs of 2026-07-30Storage locations inside the EEA, full list of AI providers, commitment against model training on customer content, retention periods and standard contractual clauses as the basis for third-country transfersOpen sourceAs of 2026-07-30SOC 2 Type II, penetration test attestation 2026, a deposited Data Processing Agreement and the full list of 14 subprocessors with purpose and locationOpen sourceAs of 2026-07-30The customer carries the duty to collect consent from all participants before recording starts; content may be destroyed after account terminationOpen sourceAs of 2026-07-30Selectable AI region and the add-on feature that automatically asks external participants for recording consentOpen sourceAs of 2026-07-30Funding history: 4.49 million US dollars from one seed round in June 2022, with no further round recordedOpen source

Who it fits

Solo

suitable

The free plan records and transcribes without limit but caps AI analysis at ten meetings. Anyone who wants the summaries permanently ends up paying 18 euros a month.

Mid-market

suitable

Eighteen to 29 euros per user per month on annual billing stays predictable, and billing follows seats rather than minutes recorded. The harder question is who in the company actually needs a seat.

Enterprise

suitable with caveats

Custom SSO, SCIM, company-wide activity logs and privately hosted AI all sit in the Enterprise plan, whose price is not public. Without audit logging and without a contractually fixed AI region, sign-off from corporate compliance and the works council is unlikely.

Buy, switch or build

Off-the-shelf

Recording inside the conferencing platform itself

Zoom, Teams and Meet record on their own and now ship their own AI summaries. This often costs nothing extra because it sits inside the existing licence, and the recording notice is already wired into the conferencing platform. The price you pay: recordings stay separated per platform, there is no search across all conversations, and anyone running two conferencing systems maintains two archives with no shared analysis.

AI-native

AI-native note takers

A whole class of tools is built around summarisation from the outset, often cheaper and free in its basic function. They are faster to roll out and at least equal in summary quality. But they mostly move processing to the United States and rarely disclose their subprocessors in full. For a German company with a works council that is exactly where a rollout stalls, and that is where the real difference to tl;dv lies.

Build it yourself

Recording through a bot API, analysis in your own house

Technically feasible: a meeting bot API does the recording, transcription and analysis run on models you choose, and the conversations land in your own data store next to CRM and product usage. This only pays off if call data is meant to feed your own product or your own analysis, for instance objection and pricing patterns across thousands of calls. For meeting notes alone you are paying engineering time and operational responsibility for something available off the shelf at 18 euros a month.

Our advice

  • Solo: Free plan, and move to Pro only once ten AI meetings regularly stop being enough.
  • Mid-market: Buy, but hand out seats only to the people who actually run customer calls.
  • Enterprise: Settle works council, AI region and audit logging in writing before rollout, otherwise it becomes Enterprise.

Who is behind it

Staying power: Young

A German vendor with a clean register entry, audited security evidence and a disclosed supply chain. Capitalisation is thin, however: a single seed round in June 2022, with no further funding recorded since. That may mean capital efficiency or a difficult follow-on raise. At the same time, meeting recording is the most crowded and best funded segment in the go-to-market space.

  • Legal entity and register entry: tldx Solutions GmbH, Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee 51, 52074 Aachen; Aachen local court HRB 23730; VAT ID DE330894275; three managing directorsAs of 2026-07-30Legal entity, register court, commercial register number, managing directors and VAT IDOpen source · As of 2026-07-30
  • Funding: USD 4.49 million from a seed round in June 2022 (K Fund leading, Seedcamp); no further round recorded sinceAs of 2026-07-30Funding history: 4.49 million US dollars from one seed round in June 2022, with no further round recordedOpen source · As of 2026-07-30
  • Audited security evidence: SOC 2 Type II report 2026 and a 2026 penetration test attestation, held in the trust center and viewable once access is requestedAs of 2026-07-30SOC 2 Type II, penetration test attestation 2026, a deposited Data Processing Agreement and the full list of 14 subprocessors with purpose and locationOpen source · As of 2026-07-30
  • Disclosed supply chain: 14 subprocessors listed publicly, each with purpose and locationAs of 2026-07-30SOC 2 Type II, penetration test attestation 2026, a deposited Data Processing Agreement and the full list of 14 subprocessors with purpose and locationOpen source · As of 2026-07-30
  • Adoption (vendor claim, unverified): over 2 million users and over 1 million teams according to the vendor's own pricing page; no independent confirmation availableAs of 2026-07-30Plan names and prices: free, Pro at 18 euros annually and 29 euros monthly, Business at 29 euros annually and 39 euros monthly per user, Enterprise on request; ten AI meetings cap on the free plan; activity logs, SCIM and custom SSO only in the Enterprise planOpen source · As of 2026-07-30

Cost of leaving: Moderate

Individual recordings, transcripts and notes can be downloaded, and from the Pro plan upwards an API, webhooks and an MCP server allow the archive to be pulled programmatically. We found no documented one-click bulk export. The cost of leaving comes not from the contract but from the archive: the longer you have recorded, the more conversation history sits with the vendor. On the free plan the question answers itself, because recordings are removed after three months.

Regulation and data

How to read the traffic lightHow to read the traffic lightThe traffic light rates how well a point is evidenced, not how good the tool is. It draws only on the value, note and source held in the profile. Where a statement is missing, it rates the absence, not a guess. A well-reasoned "unclear" on a point that matters little for this tool is yellow. A missing source on a point that decides whether you can use it at all is red.documented, no condition attacheddocumented, tied to a conditiondocumented, but unfavourableopen on a point that decides usability
Data processing agreementScale for this point: Data processing agreementdocumented, no condition attached: Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag öffentlich abrufbar und ohne weitere Bedingung Bestandteil des Vertrags; oder er entfällt nachvollziehbar begründet, weil kein Anbieter Kundendaten verarbeitet.documented, tied to a condition: Vertrag existiert, ist aber an einen Tarif gebunden, nur nach Anfrage einsehbar oder allein in den Nutzungsbedingungen geregelt statt als eigenes Dokument.documented, but unfavourable: Kein Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag im üblichen Sinn: entweder weil der Anbieter für das Kerngeschäft eigenständig Verantwortlicher ist und stattdessen eine andere Konstruktion gilt, oder weil öffentlich offen bleibt, ob überhaupt einer angeboten wird.open on a point that decides usability: Weder ein Vertrag noch ein dokumentierter Weg zu einem Vertrag; der Einkauf hätte nichts, worauf er sich stützen kann.documented, tied to a conditionin place, but only available for review on requestAs of 2026-07-30SOC 2 Type II, penetration test attestation 2026, a deposited Data Processing Agreement and the full list of 14 subprocessors with purpose and locationOpen sourceThe Trust Center lists a Data Processing Agreement as a document but releases it only after an access request. The public terms of service do not incorporate it and merely point to the privacy policy.As of 2026-07-30
Storage locationScale for this point: Storage locationdocumented, no condition attached: EU-Speicherort ohne Zusatzkosten und ohne Tarifbindung, oder der Ort ist vollständig selbst bestimmbar, weil das Werkzeug im eigenen Betrieb läuft.documented, tied to a condition: EU-Speicherort möglich, aber an einen Tarif, einen gesondert zu aktivierenden Zusatz oder einen Umzug in eine getrennte Umgebung gebunden; oder die EU-Region ist nicht die Voreinstellung.documented, but unfavourable: Kein EU-Speicherort, der Ort ist aber eindeutig benannt, sodass die Folgen bewertbar sind.open on a point that decides usability: Der Speicherort ist öffentlich nicht benannt oder vom Kunden nicht steuerbar, sodass sich die Verarbeitung nicht verorten lässt.documented, no condition attachedEEA: Google Cloud (Germany), Wasabi (Germany), Hetzner (Germany and Finland)As of 2026-07-30Storage locations inside the EEA, full list of AI providers, commitment against model training on customer content, retention periods and standard contractual clauses as the basis for third-country transfersOpen sourceRecordings and meeting artefacts sit inside the EEA according to the privacy policy. That covers storage. AI processing is a separate matter and follows a selectable region setting.As of 2026-07-30
SubprocessorsScale for this point: Subprocessorsdocumented, no condition attached: Vollständige öffentliche Liste der Unterauftragnehmer mit Zweck und Land; oder es gibt keine, weil das Werkzeug im eigenen Betrieb läuft.documented, tied to a condition: Liste existiert und ist benannt, aber nur nach Anfrage oder nach Zugang zu einem Vertrauensportal einsehbar, oder sie nennt Zweck und Land nicht vollständig.documented, but unfavourable: Keine geführte Liste; namentlich stehen nur einzelne Dienste in der Datenschutzerklärung, überwiegend solche der eigenen Website.open on a point that decides usability: Weder eine Liste noch eine Nennung der Verarbeiter des Produkts, und kein dokumentierter Weg, sie zu erfahren.documented, no condition attached14 subprocessors listed publicly by name, each with purpose and locationAs of 2026-07-30SOC 2 Type II, penetration test attestation 2026, a deposited Data Processing Agreement and the full list of 14 subprocessors with purpose and locationOpen sourceNamed entries include Google Cloud, Wasabi, Hetzner, Cloudflare, Anthropic, Vanta, Paragon, HubSpot, Intercom, Stripe and GitLab. This depth of disclosure is unusual in this class of tool and counts as a solid advantage.As of 2026-07-30
Third-country transferScale for this point: Third-country transferdocumented, no condition attached: Keine Übermittlung in ein Drittland, oder die Übermittlung findet statt und die Grundlage ist benannt und im Vertrag verankert, etwa Standardvertragsklauseln, Angemessenheitsbeschluss oder EU-US-Datenschutzrahmen.documented, tied to a condition: Übermittlung findet statt, eine Grundlage ist genannt, aber ohne Zuordnung, welcher Empfänger auf welcher Grundlage arbeitet.documented, but unfavourable: Übermittlung findet statt und die eigenen Unterlagen widersprechen sich, oder die genannte Grundlage bezieht sich erkennbar nur auf einen Randbereich wie die Marketing-Website.open on a point that decides usability: Übermittlung findet erkennbar statt und eine Grundlage wird nirgends genannt.documented, no condition attachedyes, for parts of the service; standard contractual clauses as the legal basisAs of 2026-07-30Storage locations inside the EEA, full list of AI providers, commitment against model training on customer content, retention periods and standard contractual clauses as the basis for third-country transfersOpen sourceAnthropic, GitLab and Intercom are listed as US subprocessors, Stripe as worldwide. The privacy policy names the European Commission's standard contractual clauses as the legal basis. The decisive point is the AI region: per the privacy policy, portions of transcripts may be processed either in the EU or in the USA, depending on the setting chosen.As of 2026-07-30
Training on customer dataScale for this point: Training on customer datadocumented, no condition attached: Vertraglich oder in der Datenschutzerklärung ausdrücklich ausgeschlossen, mit Erstreckung auf die eingesetzten Modellanbieter; oder es gibt keine Datenübertragung an einen Anbieter.documented, tied to a condition: Ausschluss ab einem bestimmten Tarif, oder die Zusage steht nur auf einer Dokumentationsseite statt im Vertrag, oder die Frage stellt sich für das Werkzeug sachlich kaum und der Anbieter schweigt dazu.documented, but unfavourable: Nutzung ist die Voreinstellung und nur ein Widerspruch beendet sie; oder der Anbieter trainiert eigene Modelle auf bereinigten Kundendaten.open on a point that decides usability: Keine Aussage, obwohl das Werkzeug KI-Funktionen auf Kundeninhalten betreibt.documented, no condition attachedno, explicitly committedAs of 2026-07-30Storage locations inside the EEA, full list of AI providers, commitment against model training on customer content, retention periods and standard contractual clauses as the basis for third-country transfersOpen sourceThe privacy policy commits not to use customer content to train, fine-tune or improve foundation models or other generative AI models, and extends that commitment to the AI providers it uses. This is one of the few unambiguous statements in this class of tool.As of 2026-07-30
Retention and deletionScale for this point: Retention and deletiondocumented, no condition attached: Löschfristen nach Vertragsende beziffert und die Löschung oder Rückgabe zugesagt; oder die Fristen bestimmt der Betreiber selbst, weil das Werkzeug im eigenen Betrieb läuft.documented, tied to a condition: Löschung ist zugesagt, die Fristen sind aber nur teilweise beziffert, oder Sicherungskopien sind ausdrücklich ausgenommen.documented, but unfavourable: Nur der Grundsatz der Erforderlichkeit ohne jede Frist nach Vertragsende, oder Fristen sind allein für Randbereiche wie Website-Protokolle genannt.open on a point that decides usability: Keine Aussage zu Aufbewahrung und Löschung.documented, tied to a conditionfree plan 3 months, paying accounts until the account is deletedAs of 2026-07-30Storage locations inside the EEA, full list of AI providers, commitment against model training on customer content, retention periods and standard contractual clauses as the basis for third-country transfersOpen sourceFurther periods from the privacy policy: technical logs 10 days, meeting participants' email addresses 5 years or until a deletion request, pre-sales contacts 3 years. More granular per-team retention controls are not publicly documented.As of 2026-07-30
CertificationsScale for this point: Certificationsdocumented, no condition attached: Mehrere anerkannte Nachweise, benannt mit Norm, Fassung und Geltungsbereich, und bezogen auf den Anbieter selbst.documented, tied to a condition: Ein anerkannter Nachweis für den Anbieter belegt, der Bericht aber nur auf Anfrage, oder der Nachweis hängt an einem Tarif, oder der Geltungsbereich bleibt teilweise offen.documented, but unfavourable: Nur pauschale Nennung ohne Norm-Fassung und Geltungsbereich, oder bloße Selbstauskunft, oder die Nachweise gehören dem Infrastrukturanbieter statt dem Anbieter, oder der Prüfzeitraum ist erkennbar veraltet, oder die eigenen Angaben widersprechen sich.open on a point that decides usability: Kein Nachweis genannt und keine Sicherheits- oder Vertrauensseite vorhanden.documented, tied to a conditionSOC 2 Type II and a 2026 penetration test at the vendor itself; ISO 27001 and PCI DSS only at the data centresAs of 2026-07-30SOC 2 Type II, penetration test attestation 2026, a deposited Data Processing Agreement and the full list of 14 subprocessors with purpose and locationOpen sourceThe Trust Center shows SOC 2 Type II and GDPR for tl;dv itself, but no ISO 27001 certificate of its own. The ISO and PCI evidence named on the security page belongs to the data centre operators. That is not the same thing and should not be conflated in a vendor assessment.As of 2026-07-30
EU AI Act, Article 50Scale for this point: EU AI Act, Article 50documented, no condition attached: Der Anbieter macht eine belegte Aussage, die die eigene Pflicht trägt, etwa Modelldokumentation und Zertifizierung nach ISO/IEC 42001; oder das Werkzeug enthält nachvollziehbar begründet kein KI-System im Sinne der Verordnung.documented, tied to a condition: Der Anbieter äußert sich zur Verordnung oder ordnet die eigene Funktion ein, eine benannte Zusage zu den Transparenzpflichten aus Artikel 50 fehlt aber; oder das Werkzeug enthält kein KI-System, das gegenüber Menschen auftritt, und der Anbieter schweigt.documented, but unfavourable: Das Produkt enthält KI-Funktionen, der Anbieter schweigt dazu oder trägt ein Selbstetikett ohne Nachweis; die Kennzeichnung ist vom Betreiber aber selbst setzbar.open on a point that decides usability: KI spricht im Produkt unmittelbar mit Endkunden und der Anbieter sagt zu Artikel 50 nichts; die Kennzeichnung lässt sich ohne Zusage des Anbieters nicht sicher setzen.documented, but unfavourableunclearAs of 2026-07-30tldv.io/features/security-commitmentOpen sourceThe pricing page and the security page carry a badge claiming the product is EU AI Act compliant. No public evidence shows how the transparency duties under Article 50 are met. Those duties apply from August 2026, and a self-applied label does not replace documentation.As of 2026-07-30
Audit loggingScale for this point: Audit loggingdocumented, no condition attached: Nachvollziehbares Protokoll über Zugriffe und Änderungen in allen Tarifen enthalten, mit benannter Frist und Ausleitung in eigene Systeme; oder die Nachvollziehbarkeit liegt vollständig in eigener Hand, weil das Werkzeug im eigenen Betrieb läuft.documented, tied to a condition: Protokoll vorhanden, aber an einen höheren Tarif oder einen kostenpflichtigen Zusatz gebunden, oder die Ausleitung fehlt in den unteren Stufen; Reichweite und Frist sind benannt.documented, but unfavourable: Protokolle sind nur anbieterseitig beschrieben, oder Reichweite und Frist bleiben offen, sodass sich Nachweispflichten nicht planen lassen.open on a point that decides usability: Öffentlich nicht belegt, ob der Kunde überhaupt ein auswertbares Protokoll erhält.documented, tied to a conditionEnterprise plan onlyAs of 2026-07-30Plan names and prices: free, Pro at 18 euros annually and 29 euros monthly, Business at 29 euros annually and 39 euros monthly per user, Enterprise on request; ten AI meetings cap on the free plan; activity logs, SCIM and custom SSO only in the Enterprise planOpen sourceCompany-wide activity logs appear on the pricing page only in the Enterprise plan, alongside SCIM and custom SSO. Anyone who needs auditable logging of access to call recordings cannot get it on the Pro or Business plans.As of 2026-07-30

What it really costs

Entry price

A free plan with unlimited recording and transcription in more than 30 languages, but capped at ten meetings with AI notes. Pro costs 18 euros per user per month on annual billing, 29 euros on monthly billing.As of 2026-07-30Plan names and prices: free, Pro at 18 euros annually and 29 euros monthly, Business at 29 euros annually and 39 euros monthly per user, Enterprise on request; ten AI meetings cap on the free plan; activity logs, SCIM and custom SSO only in the Enterprise planOpen source

As of 2026-07-30

What gets expensive

On the jump to Business and on the number of seats. Business costs 29 euros annually and 39 euros monthly per user, and only there do you get premium multilingual transcription and analysis across multiple calls. Everything a larger IT organisation demands, namely custom SSO, SCIM, activity logs and privately hosted AI, sits in the Enterprise plan with no public price. And because billing follows seats, the invoice grows with the team rather than with the benefit.

What it displaces

  • Hand-written notes typed into the CRM afterwards
  • Separate recording archives per conferencing platform
  • Call reports written from memory after the meeting

Interfaces

  • REST API and webhooks (from Pro upwards)
  • MCP server for language models (from Pro upwards)
  • CRM and workflow connections through Paragon
  • Recording in Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, plus a bot-free desktop recorder

Matching methods

  • Sales Onboarding Machine (CLOSER)The programme requires new hires to listen to real calls in their first two weeks, and without a searchable body of recordings those calls exist only as anecdote.
  • Sales Acceleration FormulaThe method derives hiring and coaching from traits that demonstrably link to selling success in your own team, and that needs analysable calls rather than reps' self-reports.
  • MEDDIC / MEDDPICCThe checklist asks for evidenced value, the approval path and a champion, and whether those points were actually covered shows in the call itself, not in a CRM field filled in afterwards.

Sources

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  2. 2.Plan names and prices: free, Pro at 18 euros annually and 29 euros monthly, Business at 29 euros annually and 39 euros monthly per user, Enterprise on request; ten AI meetings cap on the free plan; activity logs, SCIM and custom SSO only in the Enterprise plan (opens in a new tab)tldv.io/app/pricing · As of 2026-07-30
  3. 3.Storage locations inside the EEA, full list of AI providers, commitment against model training on customer content, retention periods and standard contractual clauses as the basis for third-country transfers (opens in a new tab)tldv.io/privacy · As of 2026-07-30
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  5. 5.The customer carries the duty to collect consent from all participants before recording starts; content may be destroyed after account termination (opens in a new tab)tldv.io/terms · As of 2026-07-30
  6. 6.Selectable AI region and the add-on feature that automatically asks external participants for recording consent (opens in a new tab)intercom.help/… · As of 2026-07-30
  7. 7.Funding history: 4.49 million US dollars from one seed round in June 2022, with no further round recorded (opens in a new tab)tracxn.com/…/funding-and-investors · As of 2026-07-30
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Last reviewed: 2026-07-30 by Dr. Oliver Gausmann, Convios GmbH

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