On September 14, 2026 Superhuman announced that it had acquired Fathom, the AI meeting notetaker. If you record your calls with Fathom, the useful question is not what the deal means for the industry but what you should do this month, and the honest answer is short: probably nothing urgent, plus a few cheap checks. This page separates what the two companies have stated from what they have not, and ends with a checklist. Nolario has a Fathom connector, so we have a stake in this; we say below what it does.
What happened and what has been announced
Superhuman bought Fathom on September 14, 2026 and disclosed no price. Superhuman's announcement says it plans to bring Fathom's notetaking to its suite of apps and agents: email, calendar, documents and databases. Reworked reported the same day that Fathom's CEO, Richard White, said existing Fathom customers keep the same app, login and user experience, and that Fathom was already available in Superhuman Go, the company's assistant, through a connector. The same article counts it as Superhuman's third acquisition since renaming itself from Grammarly in October 2025.
When we opened fathom.ai on October 21, 2026, a banner read "Fathom is now part of Superhuman", and the linked page said "Nothing changes today for Fathom users" and "Same app, same login, same product experience". That is the whole official statement about users. It says today, and it gives no dates.
What nobody has said yet
Three things matter to a user and are not stated in any source we read. The first is the free plan: Fathom's pricing page on October 21, 2026 listed Free at $0 with unlimited recordings and transcriptions, Premium at $20 per month ($16 billed annually), Team at $19 ($15) and Business at $34 ($25), but neither announcement mentions the free plan's future. The second is data: Superhuman's post has no Fathom-specific statement about how meeting data will be used, only a general line pointing to its privacy policy. The third is timing, since no source gives a date for any integration.
One of the sources, a Fireflies blog post dated October 2, 2026, covers the deal for Fathom users. Fireflies sells a competing notetaker, so we use that post only for the date of the announcement and for the help center banner.
| Feature | Stated | Not stated |
|---|---|---|
| Deal date | September 14, 2026 | Closing details |
| Price paid | No | Undisclosed by both companies |
| Fathom app and login | Same today, per Fathom | How long |
| Free plan | Listed on October 21, 2026 | Whether it continues |
| Meeting data use | No | Any change to how it is used |
| Roadmap | Notetaking in Superhuman apps and Go | Timeline |
What the Fathom terms say about a sale
Fathom's terms of service, last updated March 4, 2026 when we read them, do not address a change of control. They say Fathom may assign the terms at any time without notice or consent, and that users may not assign theirs. On AI training, they say Fathom does not authorize third parties to use your personal information or user content, and that Fathom may use de-identified data created from your content to train its own models, with an opt-out in account settings. For a team account, the content belongs to your company. If any of that matters to you, the account settings are where to look, and the terms are worth a second read if a new notice arrives.
What users do now: a five-step checklist
Most Fathom users should keep recording and spend ten minutes on these steps, in this order.
- Keep working. Fathom says nothing changes today, so there is no reason to migrate this week.
- Export what you cannot lose. According to Fathom's help center, a recording downloads as an MP4 from the three-dot menu on the meeting, and a transcript cannot be downloaded directly: you use Copy Transcript and paste it elsewhere. Do this for the handful of calls that hold decisions you may need to prove.
- Check the AI-training setting in your account, given that the terms allow de-identified training on Fathom's side unless you opt out.
- Decide what you would switch for. The thing to watch is a change to the free plan, to data use or to the connectors you depend on. Reworked names Granola, Fireflies, Otter.ai and Wispr as the main standalone notetakers left. Test any candidate on two real calls before you commit.
- Keep the follow-up out of the notetaker. The summary is a record; the mail you send afterwards and the task you owe are the part that gets lost. Store those where you already work.
Where Nolario fits
Nolario is not a notetaker and does not join your calls. Its Fathom connector reads your meetings through Fathom's public API, read only, and turns each meeting into a note with the summary and action items. Action items you own land in Tasks, and a follow-up mail to the other participants is drafted in your voice. It is never sent: you open it in the composer and press send. Nolario learns from the transcript to answer you, and never to train AI models. It can also read Google Meet transcripts on a Google Workspace plan with transcripts turned on. Whatever goes to an AI provider passes the same privacy filter as mail, which removes names and numbers first. Access to Nolario is by waitlist, so this is no answer for this week.
If Fathom is the only place your meeting follow-ups live, the acquisition is a reason to have a second copy in a feed you control. For the other half of this deal, how Superhuman compares as an email client, see Nolario vs Superhuman and the best Superhuman alternatives. On what happens to your mail and transcripts when an AI reads them, read is it safe to let AI read your email, and for deciding what to hand off, what to delegate when you answer your own email. The channels Nolario connects are on integrations, and plans are on pricing.
