Not just a transcript. Tasks, decisions, a draft spec, a diagram, a rough mock-up of the screen you were describing — started while you talked, ready for you to finish. On your Mac, in files you own.
You ran the meeting, so you couldn't take notes. The bot that took them made your client uncomfortable and gave you a transcript nobody will read. And the write-up is still yours to do tonight — because there's nobody to hand it to.
See it work
Start to finish: the calendar launch pad, cards appearing as things are said, asking for a mock-up out loud, tidying up at the end, and the whole lot exported into a project folder.
Three things that make it different
It hears both sides from your Mac's own audio. Nothing joins, nothing announces itself, nothing appears in the participant list — so the meeting stays a meeting.
Works where recording bots are banned.
Tasks, decisions, risks and blockers appear as cards while people speak. When the conversation gets substantive it drafts the spec, sketches the diagram, roughs out the screen you're describing.
Drafts, not deliverables — you finish them.
No account. No Keen Bean server. Audio goes to Deepgram to be transcribed and the transcript to the AI provider you chose — that's the whole list. Everything else is Markdown and JSON on your Mac.
Open the files in any editor. Ever.
A day of meetings
Today's calendar is on the launch pad. One click opens the meeting with attendees and project already filled in.
Cards appear as things are said. Type a question silently, or just say “hey Bean, mock that up” out loud. Pause for the off-record bit.
Below about half your screen it folds into a single newest-first feed, so it sits next to the call window instead of fighting it.
Duplicates merge, what's left is ranked with blockers first. Nothing is deleted — “show all” is one click away.
Export the summary, transcript, cards and every draft straight into your Obsidian vault or project folder.
Ask questions across every meeting you've ever had — who owned that, when did we decide it, what did they object to.
Who it's for
There's nobody to hand it to. That's the whole thing — a transcript is useless to you, because you were never going to re-read it.
The honest answers
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. It gets you a first draft while the conversation is fresh. Plenty of what a finished document needs won't even have been discussed yet — that part is still yours. What changes is that you edit something instead of facing a blank page.
Yes — and it's why there's no subscription. You pay the providers directly, usually $3–8 a month at normal meeting volume, and you can see every cent. Setup is one paste each for two services, and the app walks you through it on first launch.
Audio goes to Deepgram to be transcribed, and the transcript goes to the AI provider you configured. Nowhere else. There's no Keen Bean account to leak and no server of ours holding anything.
Your licence is perpetual and your files are Markdown and JSON. The app you have keeps working, and everything it made opens in any editor. That's a design decision, not a reassurance.
Yes. Twelve months of updates included. After that it keeps working forever on the version you have — renew for $69 only if you want the newer ones.
It asks you to confirm everyone knows, once per meeting. Telling them is your job; the app just makes it hard to forget.
Price
A year of the subscription ones costs more than this does, once.
I built Keen Bean because I kept running client meetings I couldn't take notes in, and kept writing everything up at nine at night. Every tool I tried wanted to put a bot in someone else's call, or wanted my clients' conversations on its servers.
So it runs on my Mac, it uses my own keys, and it writes the first draft while I'm still talking. I use it every working day. If something's broken or missing, my address is right here.
Mike Jones
mike@savvymonkey.foo · Savvy Monkey
Fourteen days, no card, no email, no bot. If it doesn't earn its place by the second meeting, delete it.