A year ago we launched Char as an AI meeting notetaker. We came out the other side believing the framing was too small.
The real question was never how do you capture a meeting? It was what happens to everything that flows from it — the decisions, the follow-ups, the half-thoughts in the margin — and who carries it forward?
Char 1.1 is built around that answer.
What we learned
We spent the year making nearly every mistake available to an early-stage founder. We shipped 21 versions, swapped storage layers mid-flight, removed features users relied on, and watched 200 of our earliest adopters churn out instead of upgrading. Most of it worked. Some of it broke trust. All of it taught us the same thing.
Meeting notetakers are a solved category. Granola just raised at $1.5B. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom — they all do transcripts and summaries. The feature set is converging. Competing on transcript accuracy is a race to parity.
It got more obvious when Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams started shipping their own notetakers. Trying to out-transcribe the conferencing platforms themselves is foolish. Folding their output into something with continuity and acting on it — that's the move.
But every day we hit the same wall: the meeting ends and everything scatters. Three action items got spoken out loud. A design decision got made. Someone said "let's circle back on pricing." Then you open Slack, open Linear, open your notes app, and try to manually reconstruct what matters.
You have a task manager, a notetaker, and a CRM. They don't talk to each other. Every tool has a piece. No tool has context across all of them.
The problem we're solving
Humans are naturally poor at managing complexity. Even the most senior operators have someone managing things for them — a Chief of Staff, an EA. The rest of us just deal with it. The more meetings you take, the worse it gets. You spend hours every day just triaging — organizing, remembering, routing. Not the work itself. The meta-work around it.
And now, on top of that, everyone is becoming a manager — running a fleet of AI agents to get their work done. Whether you realize it or not.
So the question becomes: who manages the managers?
How Char solves it
Char starts with meetings and ends with everything that flows from them. The core is the daily note.
Your daily note assembles itself. You finish a call and action items land in your daily note, not in a separate meetings tab. The work happening on your computer flows into your timeline. Quick thoughts go in the same place. Everything from that day, in one surface.
Tuesday's note has context from Monday's. Thursday's meeting note references a decision from Tuesday's. When you ask "what did we decide about pricing?" Char doesn't search a folder of files — it traverses a graph of context that's been building for weeks.
From the outside, Char looks like a notepad. It's actually an agent that already knows what you're working on.
Type a checkbox, and an agent picks it up — researching, drafting, or scheduling on your behalf. By the time you're in your next meeting, the work is already in motion.
A meeting notetaker gives you a record of what was said. Char gives you a system that remembers what was decided, connects it to what came before, and helps you act on it.
Where this goes
The daily note is the wedge. Everything else is downstream.
Executive Assistant. A daily note that evolves throughout your day. Your memory for everything.
Chief of Staff. Tasks aren't just things you don't have to execute — they're things you don't have to manage either. Char routes the spec to your IDE, flags the design decision to your co-founder's daily note, drafts the email for review.
Chief Operating Officer. When everyone on a team has their own daily note, those notes become a shared operating layer. Context flows between people automatically. Decisions leave a trail. Nothing falls through the cracks because the system remembers even when people don't.
That's the company we're building.
What's available today
Char 1.1 ships with the daily note as the home screen, meetings woven directly into it, and the first agent handoffs from checkboxes. SQLite migration and folders land this month. Cloud sync is here. The CLI is bundled — same data, two interfaces, native for humans and agents alike.
We're opening this in private alpha. I'm onboarding every user personally for now.
If you've ever finished a long day of meetings and wondered where it all went — try Char.