Tana

Tana is an agentic meeting platform. Its pitch in 2026 is that work should get done in the meeting, not after it. AI agents join your video calls, transcribe what is said, and act on it: they draft documents, file issues, and update a shared context graph that the team can query later.

This is a real shift from what Tana used to be. The original Tana was a Supertags outliner that turned notes into structured, queryable data. That product still exists, but it is now branded separately as Tana Outliner at outliner.tana.inc. Tana itself says these are distinct products that share a brand name, so check which one you are signing up for.

What it actually is

The differentiator is that the agent works inside the meeting. Most AI notetakers record a call and hand you a summary afterward. Tana puts an agent on the call that transcribes in real time and acts on the discussion as it happens, so a decision can become a document or an issue before the meeting ends.

Behind that sits a context graph. Instead of asking you to file notes by hand, Tana populates the graph from your meetings, then lets you and the AI query it. The structured ideas that powered the original Supertags model carry through here as types, but you configure them in natural language rather than building the system up manually.

The trade-off is focus. Tana is now built around teams and live calls. If you wanted the quiet, single-user knowledge outliner, that is the separate Tana Outliner product, and conflating the two leads to the wrong plan and the wrong workflow.

When to pick Tana

• You run on meetings. Agents act during the call instead of after it.
• You want automatic capture. Transcripts and a context graph build themselves from calls.
• You use Zoom, Teams, or Meet. The agent joins those calls natively.
• You want work, not just notes. Discussion becomes docs, issues, and tasks.
• Your team shares context. The graph is queryable across the group.

When to pick something else

• Simple personal notes: a lightweight app is faster and cheaper.
• The original outliner: use Tana Outliner for the Supertags knowledge tool.
• All-in-one docs and wiki: Notion AI is more mature for general docs and team wikis.
• Local-first storage: Tana is cloud-based, so offline-first tools differ here.

Pricing

Tana is freemium. As of June 2026 the meeting platform at tana.inc/pricing lists Free with about 5 hosted meetings a month and roughly 50 AI queries. Pro is about $20/month on an early-bird rate, around $30 standard, with unlimited meetings and more AI. Max is about $80/month early-bird, around $120 standard, and Business is custom yearly pricing with SAML SSO and advanced security.

The original Tana Outliner is a separate product with its own, generally lower-priced plans at outliner.tana.inc. Because the platform is young and several tiers are on promotional early-bird rates, confirm the current prices and meeting limits on the live pricing page before committing.

Pricing and positioning verified 2026-06-25 against the Tana pricing page.