Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work

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Superhuman is joining the cadre of productivity platforms launching notetakers — but rather than building one internally, it is acquiring Y Combinator-backed Fathom. AI-powered productivity platforms aim to automate work. Hence the desire by Superhuman and similar platforms to move into notetaking. He did tease that with a notetaker, Superhuman can work on surfacing meeting context in real time. With a meeting notetaker in the middle, Superhuman can draft emails, update data entries, schedule follow-up meetings, and have AI agents start work and extract insights from meeting data.

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