Why Meeting AI Should Have Nothing to Hide
Most meeting AI tools send your audio to the cloud. We think there is a better way. Here is why we built Noted to process everything locally on your Mac.
Every meeting AI tool on the market today asks you to trust them with your most sensitive conversations. Quarterly business reviews. HR discussions. Board meetings. Salary negotiations.
They all go to the cloud.
The cloud problem
When you use most meeting AI tools, here is what happens:
- Your microphone captures raw audio
- That audio is uploaded to a cloud server
- A third-party API transcribes it
- The transcript is stored on yet another server
- AI processing happens on — you guessed it — another server
At each step, your data passes through infrastructure you do not control. Even with "enterprise-grade encryption," your unencrypted audio exists on someone else's hardware during processing.
A different architecture
Noted takes a fundamentally different approach. Audio capture and transcription happen entirely on your Mac using Apple's native Speech framework and local AI models. Your raw audio never touches a network interface.
When you enable optional cloud features (like team search or cross-device sync), only text summaries are transmitted — never audio. And even those are encrypted end-to-end.
Why this matters
You should not need to pay $75/month for "undetectability." Meeting intelligence should not need to hide because it should not be doing anything worth hiding.
Noted is open source. Every privacy claim we make can be verified by reading the code. We have nothing to hide — and neither should your meeting AI.
Download Noted and try it for yourself. Free to start, no account required.