Earkeep
Set the direction and make the calls by keeping every room it was decided in
The board, the leadership team, the investor on the phone: direction is set out loud in rooms you cannot take notes in, then delivered as a board narrative, an investor update and a plan the company runs on. Earkeep is an always-on transcriber that keeps every one of those rooms on your own device, with no vendor holding a copy and nothing joining the call.
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The rooms that decide it
The board meeting
What has to survive it is the exact approval and the conditions attached to it, because next quarter someone will ask what precisely was agreed. This is also the room your counsel has told you not to put a third-party notetaker into: firms now advise that these tools can compromise privileged communications and sensitive executive-session deliberations, and that organisations should consider prohibiting them there outright.
With Earkeep: nothing joins the call, no vendor holds a recording, and audio is transcribed on your device and never written to disk. That removes the third party from the room, and it is worth being exact about what it does not remove, which the FAQ below states plainly. How private-by-design works →
The leadership team meeting
What has to survive it is the decision, its owner and its conditions, in the words the room used. Bain found two-thirds of meetings ending before an important decision is reached, which makes the ones that do reach a decision carry weight far beyond the hour they took.
With Earkeep: connect a calendar and the weekly cadence starts, ends and titles its own span, so the record accumulates without anyone deciding to keep it. When a decision is reopened a quarter later, you are reading what was said rather than arbitrating two recollections. Keeping a decision log →
The investor or customer conversation
What has to survive it is what you committed to out loud, word for word, because that is what gets quoted back. These are rarely the ones you prepared for: Porter and Nohria found 36% of a CEO's time going to whatever arrived unplanned.
With Earkeep: capture is already running, so the call that turned out to be the week's real decision is on the timeline whether or not anyone expected it to matter. You mark the span afterwards, once you know. How always-on works →
The rest of the week
Those three are where direction is set. They are not where the week goes, and for this role the number is not an estimate: Porter and Nohria tracked 27 CEOs around the clock for 13 weeks each, 60,000 hours in total, and found 72% of working time going to meetings across 37 meetings a week, on a 62.5-hour week. Harvard Business Review puts the wider executive tier at nearly 23 hours a week in meetings, up from under 10 in the 1960s.
| Meeting | You | What has to survive it |
|---|---|---|
| 1:1s with direct reports | Run | Commitments, and the first quiet signal that something is off |
| Operating or business review | Run | The number that moved, and the reason actually given for it |
| Strategy or planning offsite | Run | The bet the company just made, and the argument that produced it |
| All-hands | Run | The narrative the company repeats back, and what got asked in Q&A |
| Skip-level | Run | What a team says when their own manager is not in the room |
| Senior recruiting conversation | Run | The specific reason for the yes or the no, before candidates blur |
| Crisis or escalation call | Run | The decision, its owner, and the time it was made |
| Partner or M&A conversation | Run or attend | What was agreed between principals before anything was drafted |
Nobody at this tier is going to mark thirty-seven spans a week by hand, and Earkeep does not ask you to. Every recurring row above starts, ends and titles its own span from your calendar, and the unplanned third of the week is on the same timeline waiting to be marked.
See it in action
A 37-meeting week, on one timeline
Every moment of the day sits on a scrollable timeline, so the call that turned out to matter is a stretch you can find and open afterwards. You scrub to it, read what was actually said, and keep it.
The board narrative, drafted from the quarter
Point the agent you already use at a quarter of operating reviews and leadership meetings, and ask what was committed to last quarter and what actually happened to it. It reads the transcripts, and you review a draft with the quotes still attached rather than asking six people to remember.
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FAQ for executives
Our counsel advises against AI notetakers in board meetings. Does local capture change that?
Partly, and it is worth being exact about which part. What Earkeep removes is the third party: no vendor receives a recording, nothing is uploaded, no participant appears in the room that is not a person, and audio is processed only in memory and never written to disk. That addresses the objection about confidential and privileged material passing through an outside service.
What it does not do is make a transcript un-discoverable. A file on your own disk is still a record, and counsel asking whether a transcript of a session exists gets the same answer either way. If your policy is that no verbatim record of an executive session should exist at all, Earkeep does not satisfy that policy, and you should quit it or keep the span unmarked rather than assume local means exempt. Decide that with your own counsel, not from this page.
Do I have to mark thirty-seven meetings a week myself?
No. Connect Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook or any ICS URL and each event starts, ends and titles its own span from the agenda. Hand-marking is for the third of the week that was never scheduled: the escalation, the investor call that came in, the conversation that turned into a decision.
Can an agent draft the board narrative from the quarter's meetings?
Yes. Run an in-app agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, or any ACP-compatible agent) across the quarter's operating reviews and leadership meetings and ask what was committed to and what happened to it. You are reviewing a draft that cites your own transcripts, not accepting a summary you cannot check.
Does anyone at the company have access to what I keep?
No. Transcripts are plain local files on your own disk. There is no account, no cloud sync, and no server Earkeep controls, so there is nothing for IT, a vendor, or anyone else to be granted access to. Only you can open, copy, or delete them.
Does my executive assistant need a licence too?
Only if they want their own capture. A licence activates one device at a time, so Earkeep on your machine keeps your rooms; an assistant who sits in different meetings and wants those kept needs their own. Nothing is shared between the two automatically, because there is no server to share it through.
What happens when I'm asked what we agreed three years ago?
You search a dated plain-text transcript on your own disk. The record does not depend on a subscription still being active, on a vendor still existing, or on you still holding a seat in someone else's account.
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