Category: Plaud

A client tells you, halfway through a quarterly business review, that they are reconsidering the renewal because onboarding took three weeks longer than promised. You nod, you ask a follow-up question, the conversation moves on. Two days later, when you sit down to draft the save plan, you cannot remember the exact phrasing. Was it…

The hardest part of recording an executive meeting is not the technology. It is the trust. A board discussion about an acquisition, a C-suite strategy session that will not be announced for months, a compensation committee review involving names and numbers that cannot leak. The content of executive meetings is, by definition, the most sensitive…

There is no Zoom link. No meeting bot. No automatic transcription service quietly joining the call. You are sitting in a client’s conference room with six stakeholders, and the decisions being made in the next 90 minutes will shape the next phase of your engagement. If you do not capture what was said, agreed upon,…

User research runs on conversations. Contextual inquiries, usability tests, in-depth interviews, intercept studies, diary study debriefs, stakeholder workshops. A researcher conducting four to six sessions per week generates hours of audio that needs to become something useful: tagged quotes, affinity-mappable insights, and traceable evidence that a design recommendation is grounded in what a real user…

The short answer: the category is real, but it is younger than the marketing suggests. Of the dozen or so wearable devices that claim AI note-taking capabilities, only a handful have shipped a product that reliably captures, transcribes, and summarizes conversations in daily use. The rest are still iterating on hardware, wrestling with battery life,…

You are one or two years into a product management role, and your calendar already looks like a senior PM’s. Requirement reviews with engineering, weekly syncs with your mentor, team standups, the occasional all-hands, and the 1-on-1 where your manager gives rapid-fire direction that you are somehow expected to remember verbatim. The meetings happen in…

Standups at 9, a cross-functional sync at 10, two 1-on-1s before lunch, a sprint planning session in the afternoon, and an ad-hoc alignment that someone dropped on the calendar 15 minutes ago. For team leads running 3 to 5 meetings per day, the meetings themselves are the job. The problem is everything that comes after:…

A journalist’s day runs on conversations: pitching sources, doing background research, conducting interviews in coffee shops and press rooms, chasing quotes on the street, transcribing hours of tape, and then turning all of it into a story on deadline. The recording itself has always been the easy part. The hard part is everything around it.…

Product managers live in meetings. Requirement reviews, sprint planning, cross-functional syncs, ad-hoc standups, 1-on-1s with stakeholders: a typical PM spends somewhere between 50% and 70% of their workweek in conversations that shape what gets built and when. The meetings themselves are not the problem. The problem is what happens after. Distilling action items from a…