Nod — the AI coworker that sits with you all day

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You don't need another place to store notes.

You need someone whose only job is to keep track — of your calls, your notes, and what you were working on.

Everything you'd want a coworker to catch

It sits through the call, keeps the record straight, answers what you ask, and hands off the part that matters — without a bot ever joining.

Ask across everything

One question, answered from every call, meeting, and voice note you have captured.

No bot in the call

Nod listens through your Mac, so the people on the other end see nothing new.

14 languages

Follows the language the meeting is held in, and switches when you do.

Answers while the call is still running

A floating panel over your meeting: catch up on what you missed, pull the key points, or draft a reply — without leaving the call.

Every session, in one library

Projects, pinned sessions, and search across all of it — the record fills itself as you go.

Answers with receipts

Ask in plain language and get the answer, with a link back to the session it came from.

From call to answer in seconds.

Nod fits the way you already work — capture, recall, and hand off without changing tools.

Answers while you're still in it

Catch up on what you missed without asking anyone to repeat themselves.

A floating panel sits over the meeting: pull the key points, draft a reply, or ask what was already decided — without leaving the call.

0 bots

ever join your meeting

One place for every session

Every call, meeting, and voice note lands in the same library.

Projects, pinned sessions, and search across all of it — the record fills itself while you get on with the work.

14 languages

followed automatically

Answers with receipts

Ask in plain language and get the answer, not a transcript to scrub through.

Every answer links back to the session it came from, so you can check it in one click.

Seconds

to an answer you can trace

Ambient context, only if you ask for it

Nod can read the window you're working in, so you can ask what you were doing — not only what was said out loud.

Text, never screenshots. Off until you switch it on, excluded apps and sites are never read, and every entry expires on a clock you set.

Off by default

opt in, and it clears itself in 14 days

A coworker who read everything you've captured

Not a generic chatbot. Nod reads across every call you've captured and connects the dots for you.

Ask

Ask anything and get answers grounded in your own calls, notes, and decisions.

Connect

Every session adds context to the next, so the record gets more useful over time.

Capture

Start with one shortcut. The notes, decisions, and action items write themselves.

Hand off

Send a summary as a link, or paste it straight into email, a doc, or Slack.

Up and running in three steps

From download to your first answer, without a setup call or an IT ticket.

Step 01

Download and sign in

Install Nod on your Mac and sign in with any Google account — personal or work. No Workspace plan, no admin approval.

Step 02

Start your next call

Nod listens through your Mac, so nothing changes for anyone else. No bot joins, no link to share, no announcement in the chat.

Step 03

Ask across everything

Ask what was decided, what you promised, or what is still open — answered from every session you have captured, with the source attached.

Security

Your memory. Only yours.

Every conversation Nod holds stays in your account — not pooled, not sold, not used to train anything. Here's how that's built:

How that's built

  • Audio is never stored

    It's transcribed in ~5-second chunks and dropped the moment the text returns. Nothing is written to disk, so there's no recording to leak.

  • Private to your account

    Your notes live in an encrypted, access-controlled database, built to GDPR standards and reachable only by you.

  • Data encryption

    TLS 1.2+ on every connection, AES-256 at rest. Row-Level Security on every table, so the app can only serve you your own rows.

  • No model training

    Neither we nor the providers we route through train on your data. Every call runs under Zero Data Retention.

  • No bot in the room

    Nod listens through your Mac's own audio, so nothing joins the call and the other side sees no new participant.

  • Shared only when you share it

    Your notes are private by default. A summary leaves your account only if you create a share link for it yourself.

  • Yours to take back

    Export everything as JSON, or any meeting as Markdown. Delete a meeting, or the whole account, from the app.

SOC 2

Planned, not yet audited

Why you can trust that

Wall of love

Loved by people who live on calls

What changed for them — in their words.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • Does Nod join my meeting as a bot?

    No. It listens through your Mac and that's it. No bot in the participant list, no "Nod has joined" moment, no link to share with the host. The people on your call don't see anything new.

  • Does Nod get more useful the more I use it?

    Yes. Every call, meeting, and voice note you capture joins one searchable memory you can ask across, so the more you record, the more Nod can answer. A summary from six months ago isn't dead weight; it's still there when you ask "what did we decide about that?" Most meeting apps hand you a one-off summary and forget it. Your Nod memory keeps its value as it grows.

  • Which languages does it work in?

    Fourteen for now: English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Urdu, German, Italian, Ukrainian, and Serbian. Whatever language the meeting is in, that's the language your notes come back in. More are on the way, prioritized by what customers ask for.

  • Do you store audio recordings?

    No. Audio is held in memory only long enough to chunk it (~5 seconds) and transcribe it. The bytes are released the moment the transcript returns. No file, no waveform export, no cloud-stored audio. Only the transcript and your AI summary are saved. Details: Security § Audio recordings.

  • Is transcription on-device, or does my audio go to the cloud?

    Capture and voice detection run on-device. Nod listens through your Mac and an on-device model cuts the audio into complete utterances. Transcription and summarization run in the cloud: each chunk is sent to Whisper through our proxy, transcribed, and the audio is discarded the moment the transcript returns. It's routed with Zero Data Retention and no model training, and audio is never stored (by us or the provider), but to be clear, it does leave your Mac for processing. We don't run on-device transcription today. Details: Security § How data flows.

  • Where is my data stored?

    In an encrypted Supabase Postgres database (AES-256 at rest), with per-user Row-Level Security on every table so the app only ever serves you your own rows. See Security § Infrastructure.

  • Do you train any models on my data?

    No. Neither we nor our subprocessors. Speech-to-text runs on Groq, whose terms prohibit training on inputs or outputs and which keeps no data by default. LLM and fallback calls go through OpenRouter with Zero Data Retention enabled and all "may train on request data" routes disabled, so the upstream providers (AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Azure OpenAI) don't train on your data either. Details: Security § Model training.

  • Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams?

    Yeah, all three. Nod listens to your Mac's audio, so it doesn't care which app the call is in. Slack huddles, Discord, FaceTime, even a phone call you've got on speaker. All the same to it.

  • How do you notify other participants that Nod is being used?

    Nod doesn't post a notice in the meeting chat. It can't, because it runs locally on your Mac and never integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. So letting other participants know is on you.

    Before your first recording, Nod shows a one-time disclaimer reminding you to get consent from everyone on the call. Recording laws vary by place, and some require all-party consent. See the Recording & Consent guide for a quick reference.

  • Can Nod see my screen?

    Only if you switch ambient context on, and even then it reads text, never screenshots — through the same macOS accessibility interface screen readers use. It is off by default and never enabled by an update. When it is on, Nod keeps a time-limited index of the window you're working in so you can ask what you were doing, not just what was said. Apps, categories, and sites on your exclusion list are checked before anything is read, and every entry expires on a clock you set (14 days by default). See the Privacy Policy for the full detail.