Meeting notes for consultants, kept on your Mac

Last updated: August 31, 2026

Consultants live in other people's meetings, often under NDAs that forbid sending client material to third-party services. Brieva takes the notes on your Mac, so the client's information never goes anywhere it should not.

How Brieva keeps it in the room

Nothing leaves your Mac. Transcription and the summary run on your own chip. There is no account, no server and no copy anywhere else; the notes live in a database under your macOS user, and the app works offline.
No bot joins the call. Brieva listens to the audio your Mac plays, so nothing appears in the participant list on Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, and it works the same in person with the Mac on the table.
No audio is kept. The live transcript is the only record; no recording file is written. Delete a meeting and it is gone.
Prepared before, summarized after. Drop the emails and documents that matter onto the meeting for a one-page brief; afterwards you get a summary with decisions, action items and follow-ups, and formal minutes if you want them.

Stakeholder interviews

Run the interview from any meeting app, or in the room with your Mac open, and get a transcript grouped by voice plus a summary of what each person said, decided and asked for.

Status calls and steering committees

Formal minutes generated from the transcript: decisions, actions with owners, and follow-ups, ready to send the same afternoon.

Preparation from the thread

Drop the email thread and the last deck onto the meeting and Brieva writes the brief: where things stand, what was promised, what to raise. Under an NDA, that preparation happening on your own Mac is the point.

Your obligations stay yours

Your engagement terms and your client's policies decide what you may record or transcribe and what you must say about it. Brieva keeps everything on your Mac and sends nothing anywhere; consent and disclosure remain your call.

The details

Apple silicon Mac, macOS 14.4 or newer. US$25 once, 14-day free trial, no card needed. Verified for English, French and German meetings. How the local approach works is on the How Local AI works page; how it compares with Otter, Fireflies and others is on the comparison; the rest is in the FAQ. Download Brieva to try it on your next meeting.