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Numi vs Metaview: interview notes that stay in the EU
Metaview is a focused, well-built interview-intelligence product that records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews and writes structured notes back to your ATS. The one thing it does not do is keep EU data in the EU: Metaview documents hosting on AWS in the United Kingdom. Numi is an EU-hosted AI meeting assistant used for interviews. It records, transcribes, and summarizes every conversation on European infrastructure in Frankfurt, and never trains on your data. Here is how the two compare for a recruiting team.
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Numi vs Metaview at a glance
| Capability | Numi | Metaview |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | ✅EU and DACH teams whose hard requirement is keeping interview data inside the EU | Recruiting teams that want deep ATS-integrated interview notes and are comfortable with UK hosting |
| Interview recording & transcription | ✅Records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews on European infrastructure | ✅Records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews with recruiter-tuned notes |
| Interview notes & summaries | ✅Summaries with action items and decisions, grounded in the transcript | ✅Structured candidate notes written for recruiters |
| ATS write-back | ⚠️No native ATS write-back yet; export and paste notes into your ATS | ✅Native write-back to major ATS platforms (Metaview markets 60+ integrations) |
| Data residency | ✅EU only: interview data processed and stored in Frankfurt, Germany, inside the EU | ⚠️AWS UK: EU candidate recordings rest in the United Kingdom, outside the EU |
| GDPR posture | ✅EU in-region processing; published DPA and subprocessor list; does not train on your data | ✅SOC 2 Type II, DPA available; relies on UK adequacy and standard transfer mechanisms for EU data |
| Trains AI on your data? | ✅No | ✅States it does not train on customer data |
| Language focus | ✅German-first, evaluated on DACH conversations; other EU languages supported | 50+ languages, English-first generalist |
| EU AI Act (recruitment use) | Recruitment is a high-risk use case; Numi keeps the record and transcript so a human makes the decision, and does not score or rank candidates for you | Recruitment is a high-risk use case; confirm any automated scoring or ranking against your own Annex III assessment |
| Pricing | ✅Free during private beta; paid plans coming post-launch | ⚠️Not published; quote-based |
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The real difference: where interview data physically lives
Metaview publicly documents hosting all data on AWS in the United Kingdom. For a recruiting team, that means interview recordings and transcripts of EU candidates leave the EU and rest in the UK, covered by UK adequacy and standard transfer mechanisms. That is a legitimate legal basis. It is also not the same as keeping the data physically inside the EU, and for a growing number of European buyers, especially in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, physical location is the deciding factor: a policy, a customer, or a works council requires EU in-region residency, and UK hosting does not meet that specific bar.
Numi processes and stores interview data on European infrastructure in Frankfurt, Germany, publishes its DPA and subprocessor list, and does not train on your data. If EU in-region residency is your hard requirement, that physical location is the point to check first.
Who should choose Numi
- Recruiting and talent teams in the EU, especially in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, whose policy or works council requires interview recordings to stay physically inside the EU.
- Teams that want records, transcripts, summaries, and clear action items from every interview on European infrastructure, with a published DPA and subprocessor list, and no training on their data.
- Compliance-conscious hiring teams who want a human to make the decision and do not want a tool that scores or ranks candidates for them under the EU AI Act.
Who should choose Metaview
- Recruiting teams whose top priority is deep ATS automation: Metaview has the stronger ATS story today, with native write-back to major applicant tracking systems.
- Teams for whom UK hosting under adequacy is acceptable, and who want a mature, recruiter-tuned interview-notes product with an established review presence.
- Global hiring teams running interviews across many languages who value breadth over a German-first, EU-in-region focus.
Bottom line
Read this as a match exercise, not a scoreboard. Metaview is a good product, and if your policy allows UK hosting and you want deep ATS write-back, it may be exactly right and you may not need to switch at all. None of this implies Metaview is non-compliant. The distinction is narrow and physical: where your candidates' recordings rest. If that location has to be the EU, Numi is the alternative you are looking for: an EU-hosted AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews in Frankfurt, publishes its DPA and subprocessor list, and does not train on your data.
Frequently asked questions
Is Metaview GDPR compliant?
Metaview can be used in a GDPR-compliant way. It offers a data processing agreement, holds SOC 2 Type II, and states it does not train on customer data. The nuance for EU teams is residency, not compliance: Metaview documents hosting on AWS in the United Kingdom, so EU candidate recordings rest outside the EU under UK adequacy and standard transfer mechanisms rather than physically inside the EU. Whether that is acceptable depends on your internal policy and your candidates' expectations. See our guide on recording job interviews in Germany and the EU.
Where does Metaview store interview data?
Metaview publicly documents hosting all data on AWS in the United Kingdom. Interview recordings and transcripts of EU candidates leave the EU and rest in the UK, covered by UK adequacy and standard transfer mechanisms. Numi processes and stores interview data on European infrastructure in Frankfurt, Germany, inside the EU.
What is an EU-hosted alternative to Metaview?
Numi is an EU-hosted option. It records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews and extracts action items and decisions, all processed on European infrastructure, and it does not train on your data. It fits teams whose hard requirement is keeping interview data inside the EU rather than covering a transfer through an adequacy decision. Confirm any tool against your own consent, deletion, and ATS-integration needs before you move real interviews onto it.
Does Numi write interview notes back to my ATS?
Not yet. Metaview has the stronger ATS story today, with native write-back to major applicant tracking systems. Numi records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews and produces action items and decisions you can export and paste into your ATS, but it does not have native ATS write-back at this stage. If deep ATS automation is your hard requirement, that is a real point in Metaview's favor.
Does Numi or Metaview train AI on my interview data?
Both publicly state they do not train AI models on customer data. Numi does not train on your data. Metaview states it does not train on customer data. As with any vendor, confirm the commitment in the data processing agreement, check whether sub-processors carry the same restriction, and confirm how deletion is handled before sending real interview recordings through any tool.
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