Optiverse.ai vs Microsoft Copilot: The Definitive AI Meeting Assistant Showdown

Your meetings deserve more than just a recap.

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Source: Those scores were derived by a neutral survey conducted by a HSG study across DACH, France and italy. Targeting copilot and Optiverse users.

Copilot respondants: 192. Optiverse Respondants: 265.

Link to the survey executive summary:

Why Companies Choose Optiverse.ai

Built for Meetings, Not Just an Add-On Optiverse.ai is designed from the ground up to serve as a true AI-native meeting assistant. With support for over 45 languages and dialects, it ensures accurate transcription and comprehension across multinational teams. Its robust support for multiple platforms—including Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and even in-person meetings via a mobile app—makes it an ideal fit for hybrid and global teams.

Copilot's Limitation: Teams Only In contrast, Microsoft Copilot operates as an add-on to Microsoft Teams, which limits its capabilities to just one environment. While Copilot does offer real-time transcription, it supports fewer languages and lacks in-person meeting capture entirely.

Custom Summaries That Fit Your Workflow Customization is another domain where Optiverse excels. Users can create "Protocols". Customized summary templates that reflect the context of specific meeting types, whether sales, project management, HR, or customer success. This ensures summaries are always relevant and actionable.

Copilot Summaries: One Size Fits All Copilot, by contrast, provides generic meeting summaries without room for tailoring.

From One Meeting to Many: AI Insights That Scale On the intelligence front, Optiverse offers both single and multi-meeting insights. Managers can get recurring reports that track trends and highlight issues across many conversations, enabling better team oversight and coaching.

Copilot's View: One Meeting at a Time Copilot lacks multi-meeting analysis entirely, providing insights only within the scope of a single meeting.

Workflows That Work for You When it comes to automation, Optiverse integrates with over 5,000 tools, including Salesforce, Dynamics, Planner, HubSpot, Notion, and Trello. It auto-fills CRMs, sends post-meeting summaries via email, and lets you schedule recurring reports.

Manual Mode with Copilot: Copilot offers limited integrations and does not automate follow-ups or summaries.

Enterprise-Ready Administration: Administrative control is another strong suit for Optiverse. Team leaders can auto-record meetings from team calendars, prevent deletion of sensitive calls, and group recordings into workspaces and folders.

Copilot: Limited Control, More Complexity These capabilities are either absent or buried deep in OneDrive settings for Copilot users.

Security Where It Counts Optiverse is GDPR and EU AI Act compliant and has clear policies around private data usage. It supports private storage, anonymized data handling, and vendor contracts with zero-day retention policies.

Copilot's General Enterprise Security While Copilot leverages Microsoft’s enterprise-grade security, it's not fully compliant with emerging AI-specific regulations.

Coaching Built Into the Platform Optiverse also leads in team coaching. It comes preloaded with coaching playbooks like MEDDIC, SPICED, and CHAMP, and allows creation of custom ones. These tools empower managers to evaluate sales performance and address call handling patterns.

Coaching with Copilot: If You Prompt It Copilot can provide help if prompted, but lacks dedicated coaching features.

Support You Can Count On Optiverse offers chat and email support even on the free plan, while also providing localized platform support in seven languages.

Copilot Requires a Microsoft Subscription Copilot lacks a free plan altogether and offers limited support unless you subscribe to broader Microsoft services.

Final Verdict: Purpose-Built vs. Bolt-On Optiverse.ai isn't just another AI assistant. It's a deeply integrated, fully featured platform built specifically for meeting intelligence. Microsoft Copilot may be a powerful feature in the Office suite, but when judged solely as a meeting assistant, it falls far short.

Try Optiverse.ai today – because meeting AI should do more than summarize.