Blog
Guides, comparisons, and honest takes on local meeting transcription and privacy-first AI.
Review
I switched from Granola to Transcripted — honest review
Granola is a good product. But it processes your audio in the cloud, charges $18/month, and just removed Obsidian sync. Here's what I found when I switched.
Guide
How to get your meetings into Obsidian automatically (no cloud, no plugins)
A step-by-step guide to building a local meeting-to-Obsidian pipeline using Transcripted. No cloud, no subscription, no extra software.
Opinion
Why I don't trust my meeting notes to the cloud anymore
Granola pushed users to cloud MCP. Char depends on OpenRouter. The local-first alternative isn't a tradeoff — it's just better.
Analysis
The meeting bot problem — why every recording service sends a robot to your calls
Otter, Fireflies, tl;dv all send a bot into your meetings. Nobody wants this. There's a better way.
Product
AI summaries are table stakes. Persistent speaker identity is the moat.
Every meeting app has AI summaries now. None of them know that Sarah in March is the same Sarah from October. That's the real differentiator.