AI meeting assistants save 5-10 hours per week by automating transcription, summarization, and follow-up tasks. Top tools: Fireflies ($18/user) offers best action item extraction and CRM sync; Otter.ai ($17/user) has excellent transcription accuracy; tl;dv ($20/user) is strong for video timestamp highlighting. For custom workflows using Fireflies API: fetch transcript with GraphQL query including summary.action_items, automatically create CRM tasks, post summary to Slack, create Notion pages. Use structured prompts to extract standardized meeting formats with decisions, action items table, open questions, and next meeting details. ROI calculation: for a 10-person team with 3 weekly meetings, AI tools save ~12 hours/week worth $5160/month at $200/month cost - 2480% ROI. Always get consent and review AI summaries before distributing.