Zoom AI Companion only works in Zoom, only runs when your IT admin allows it, and only stores data the way Zoom decides. Veroi runs everywhere, for everyone, under your control.
The full 27-row table lives on the home page. Here are the decisions that matter most for Zoom AI.
| Veroi | Zoom AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio stays on device | Always | Cloud |
| Bot-free recording | Yes | Bot joins |
| Memory across meetings | Deep context + RAG | Limited |
| Local LLM (Gemma 4 / Qwen 3.5) | Bundled | Cloud only |
| Apple Calendar native sync | Two-way | Zoom only |
| Menu bar app | Record, note, chat | Web only |
| Pricing | $79.99 one-time | Zoom-bundled |
| Trains on your data | Never | Aggregated / opt-out |
If your day has one platform in it, that's fine. Most days have four.
Zoom AI Companion is a Zoom feature. It works in Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone, and Zoom Team Chat. It does not work when you jump to Google Meet for a customer call, pivot to Teams for a client review, take a Webex call with a partner, or run a Slack huddle with your team. A typical week has all of those.
Veroi is platform-agnostic by architecture — it captures system audio at the OS level, so the meeting tool doesn't matter. One note-taker, one archive, one brain, across every call your calendar can throw at it. Including the in-person ones.
Zoom AI Companion is off by default at the account level. To use it, your IT admin has to enable it for your group, agree to Zoom's AI data processing terms on your behalf, and often configure per-meeting policies. In large orgs, that's months. In regulated orgs, it's never.
Veroi is an install-and-go Mac app. There is no admin gate because there is no shared cloud to administer — it's a single Personal license, self-contained on your own Mac. You can get value on day one without waiting for Legal.
Zoom's AI Companion runs in Zoom's cloud, subject to whatever regional processing Zoom has configured for your tenant. That's usually fine for internal meetings. It gets complicated fast for EU customers working with US vendors, for HIPAA use, or for any scenario involving cross-border data flow. You end up having a long conversation with Legal about where Zoom processes what, and updating it every time Zoom changes their subprocessor list.
Veroi doesn't have a subprocessor list. The data lives on the Mac that recorded it. GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 evidence requests all reduce to "here is the laptop." That's not a legal strategy; it's an architectural fact.
Zoom AI Companion is included at no extra charge on paid Zoom plans — which sounds free, until you realise you can't turn it on without the Zoom license, and you're locked into Zoom's AI quality and roadmap. If the feature stalls, your meeting intelligence stalls with it. Veroi is unbundled: one purchase, no dependency on your conferencing bill.
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