Earkeep
Grow the people you manage by keeping every conversation you had with them
Weekly 1:1s, the "got a minute?" at your desk, the review that decides someone's year: management happens in conversations you cannot take notes in. Earkeep is an always-on transcriber that keeps every one of them on your own device, where no vendor, IT department or HR system has a copy.
No bot · No cloud · No record button
14-day full trial, no account required.
The conversations that decide it
The weekly 1:1
What has to survive it is what you promised, what is still open and the growth signal you will cite in nine months. With five to fifteen reports, most get three rushed lines typed afterwards.
With Earkeep: connect your calendar and each recurring 1:1 starts, ends and titles its own span, so you are present instead of typing. How calendar spans work →
The conversation at your desk
What has to survive it is whatever got disclosed in a conversation nobody scheduled: someone at your desk, a Slack huddle, a 1:1 that turns serious halfway through.
With Earkeep: capture is already running, so you select the span afterwards, once you know it mattered, with no bot announcing itself. How always-on works →
The performance conversation
What has to survive it is specific dated examples across the whole period. Memory supplies the last three weeks, and the tracking spreadsheet goes untouched until December.
With Earkeep: a year of one person's 1:1s is a folder of plain dated files on your disk, so an agent can pull the examples a rating needs, somewhere no HR system reaches. How private-by-design works →
The rest of the week
Those three are where people grow, not where the week goes: Gallup put direct reports per manager at 12.1 in 2025, and Top Workplaces found managers holding more than 260 meetings a year.
| Meeting | You | What has to survive it |
|---|---|---|
| Team meeting or standup | Run | Decisions and blockers |
| Staff meeting with your own manager | Attend | Upward status and escalations |
| Skip-level | Run | Signal that would never surface otherwise |
| Calibration meeting | Attend | Defensible examples to back a rating |
| PIP check-in | Run | An exact dated record |
| Hiring interview | Run or attend | A defensible hire or no-hire signal |
| Cross-functional sync | Attend | Commitments that feed back into 1:1s |
Every recurring row above titles its own span from your calendar, so fifteen 1:1s end as fifteen named transcripts.
Writing them up is a separate job, and the templates are free: the 1:1 template, the team meeting and the staff meeting.
Further reading: the skip-level meeting, empathic listening and establishing rapport.
See it in action
The conversation that turned serious
A stretch of the day becomes a kept, titled conversation after it happened. Nothing was announced, and nothing had to be decided in advance.
A year of 1:1s, at review time
Point your own agent at one person's spans and ask for the dated examples a rating rests on. You review a draft with the quotes attached.
Pricing: one payment, no subscription
€39
once, for one device, not a subscription.
No tiers, no per-seat billing. Try it free for 14 days, no account required. See full pricing →
FAQ for people managers
Will my reports know they're being recorded?
That is your call, and you do have to make it: keeping audio local does not remove the duty to tell them, and consent-to-record law varies by country and US state. What changes is what you can say: nothing leaves your device, and neither IT nor HR gets a copy.
Can my company or IT see these transcripts?
No. Transcripts are plain local files on your disk, never uploaded, with no account and no cloud sync.
Does this replace my HR platform, like Lattice or 15Five?
No. Earkeep is the raw memory underneath one. Keep whatever tracking your HR platform requires.
What about conversations I'd never plan to record, like a 1:1 that turns serious?
That's what retroactive spans are for: Earkeep is already listening, so you select the span afterwards, with no bot and no advance decision. It hears only what your device hears: a huddle, a call, someone at your desk.
Does always-on capture slow down my device or drain the battery?
No more than transcribing the meetings you'd record anyway, because transcription runs only when someone is speaking.
Does it work for in-person 1:1s, not just video calls?
Yes, as long as your laptop is open nearby. Video calls are captured from system audio, with no bot joining.
Stop losing what you promised
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