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A bot-free AI meeting notepad. It records on your own device, transcribes, and writes a structured note you can question.

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Status

Row
Phase	In build. The core chain works end to end.
Shipped	Brand mark, icons and in-app header mark, Recorder, Gemini transcription, note generation, embeddings, ask-your-notes chat, Dashboard, Personas, Collections, Settings, Onboarding, Auth, Record HUD
Next	#72 Record HUD rough notes pane. Order is tracked in #39.
Updated	2026-09-30

What it does

• Records system audio, mic audio, or both, in the browser. No bot joins the call.
• Transcribes with Gemini and labels who spoke.
• Writes a note (summary, takeaways, action items) through a persona. A persona sets the lens and the depth: Brief, Dense or Exhaustive.
• Links each claim in a note back to the transcript line it came from.
• Answers questions about one note, or across all notes.
• Groups notes into collections, by hand or by auto-file rules, with tags.
• Shows a demo with sample data. One button starts it.

What it never does

• Join your call as a bot.
• Show a real id to the browser. The client sees slugs, never uuids.
• Let one user read another user's rows. Row-level security (RLS, the database's per-user lock) enforces it.
• Put a colour outside app/globals.css. Every colour is a token.

Stack

Layer	Choice
App	Next.js App Router, React Server Components, TypeScript
Styling	Tailwind CSS v4, one token file for both themes
Data and auth	Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Storage) with RLS
Transcription	Google Gemini
Notes and chat	Anthropic Claude via the AI SDK
Embeddings	Voyage
Hosting	Vercel

Run it locally

You need Node 24 and a Supabase project.

npm ci
cp .env.local.example .env.local
npm run dev

Fill in .env.local:

Variable	Where it comes from
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL, NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY	Supabase project API keys
SUPABASE_SECRET_KEY	Supabase project API keys. Server only. Bypasses RLS.
CRON_SECRET	Any random string of 32+ characters
GEMINI_API_KEY	Google AI Studio
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Anthropic Console
VOYAGE_API_KEY	Voyage AI
DEV_LOGIN_PASSWORD	Leave unset. /api/dev-login writes one on first use.

In development, open /api/dev-login to sign in as a test account. Hosted setup, redirect lists and Vercel variables: docs/DEPLOYMENT.md.

Tests

npm run test:unit
npm run test:integration

Never npm test. It stops on purpose. CI runs typecheck, test:unit and build on every PR.

Docs

• PRODUCT.md and DESIGN.md: who it is for, and how it looks
• docs/ROADMAP.md: scope and plan
• docs/DECISIONS.md: what is locked
• docs/KNOWN_GAPS.md: what is deliberately not built
• docs/adr/: decision records
• CLAUDE.md and CONTEXT.md: conventions and glossary

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