Meeting notes without the recording
Meetings become part of your memory instead of a folder of audio files — and it is included in every plan, trial included.
Meeting recorders solve one hour of your day and forget the other seven. The notes land in their own app, in their own silo, disconnected from the work the meeting was actually about.
ShogunAI treats a meeting as what it is: a dense hour of the same day the rest of the memory layer already covers.
How it works
ShogunAI notices you are in a meeting — the call app is frontmost, the mic is live, the event is on your calendar — and starts a transcript. No bot joins the call. Nobody has to be told a recorder is present, because there is no recorder. When the meeting ends you get a recap: what was decided, what was assigned, what stayed open, and who owes what to whom.
Those outputs are not a separate document. Commitments made in the call become open loops in the same tables that track the rest of your week, so the follow-up you promised at 15:40 shows up in the morning brief and in the drafted email — not in a notes app you would have had to remember to open.
What is stored, and what is not
Stored: the transcript text, who said it, when, and which meeting it came from.
Not stored: the audio. ShogunAI does not write a recording to disk, does not keep a temporary audio file, and does not produce one at any point in the pipeline. There is nothing to leak, nothing to accidentally share, nothing to subpoena. This is enforced in the build itself, not by remembering to delete things afterward.
Language handling matters here, so the transcription is multilingual by default. A call that switches between Japanese and English comes back as one transcript, not two broken halves.
The part we will not bury
Live transcription runs through a speech service rather than entirely on your Mac. Audio streams to it for the length of the call and is used only to produce the text — the account is configured so that nothing spoken in your meetings can be used to train or improve anyone's models.
That is a real exception to "your data stays on your machine," and it is the reason we are writing it in plain language here instead of in a footnote. The app discloses it in the meeting interface, the traceability log records it like any other egress, and if you would rather not, meeting notes can stay off without affecting anything else.
We picked this trade deliberately. On-device transcription that is fast enough to be live, accurate enough to be quoted, and multilingual enough to be useful in the meetings our users actually sit in is not there yet on the hardware people actually own. When it is, this moves back to the Mac.
Included in every plan
Meeting notes are in Standard, in Pro, and in the seven-day trial. This is a feature you have to feel to evaluate, and a trial that hides it is a trial that cannot answer the question you are trying to answer. The only meeting-related feature behind Pro is reaching meeting memory from your own AI tools through the Memory API.
Recording a meeting is easy. Having the meeting change what your system does for the rest of the week is the part worth building.