Why I Built Clearminutes: A Privacy-First Meeting Assistant

Like many developers, I spend hours in meetings every week. And like many developers, I've tried various meeting transcription tools: Otter.ai, Fireflies, Granola. They all share one thing in common: they send your audio to the cloud. The Problem with Cloud Transcription Every time a meeting bot joins your call, it's recording everything. Your strategy discussions. Your 1:1s with reports. Your sales calls with prospect data. All of it uploaded to servers you don't control. For most meetings, that's probably fine. But what about: Healthcare professionals discussing patient information (HIPAA) Lawyers in privileged client conversations Financial advisors discussing sensitive portfolio details Startup founders in investor meetings with proprietary information The "just don't use it for sensitive meetings" argument doesn't hold up. You can't always predict which meeting will discuss something sensitive. Building Local-First I built Clearminutes with a simple principle: your audio never lea