Know it during. Not after.
What, had you known it, would have changed the meeting.
Six consultants, and each one watches a single thing
Narrow on purpose. A consultant who only does one job is a consultant you can judge, and none of these tries to be a general assistant.
The meeting where it pays for itself
Somebody senior says the panel costs $340 a unit. The number is eight months old and it moved. Everyone in the room half remembers something different, nobody wants to be the person who stops the meeting to look it up, and the decision gets made on the old figure. You find out in six weeks.
Meander finds it while the sentence is still in the air, and puts one row on your screen:
Claim · 14:22
"we're still at $340 a unit on the panel, give or take"
$340 → $408
Revised in the April update. panel-bom.md#p4
A source you can open, in a line you can read without losing the thread of the conversation. You decide what to do with it. Say it out loud, keep it for later, or let it go.
What you get
Prepared, without the preparation
Point Meander at your documents once. From then on it arrives at every meeting having read them, and surfaces the relevant page when the conversation reaches it. No pre-reading, no hunting through folders while somebody waits.
Somebody else raises the awkward point
Contradicting the most senior person in the room is a social cost, and it usually falls on whoever can least afford it. A cited line on your screen changes the question from "do I dare" to "here is the document".
A memory of why you chose
What the team believed, which evidence changed it, who owned the call, and what was still open. Six months later that is the difference between relitigating a decision and reading it.
Your meetings stay yours
Capture, the engine, and your meeting history live on your computer. There is no bot to invite and no recording to upload, and your transcripts never reach us because we have nowhere to put them. Meander runs with no network at all if you want it to: a local recogniser, a local model, and your own files, and nothing leaves the device. Fully functional. Free. Not a trial.
It starts when you start it, shows a marker the whole time it is listening, and stops on one click. Nobody in your calendar gets an email saying a notetaker has joined.
Four things it will never do
- It never speaks to the room. Output goes to your screen only, and nobody else can see it.
- It does not tell you who was right. It shows you what a source says, cites the page, and leaves the judgement where it belongs.
- It does not infer mood, sentiment, or anything about how a person seemed. That reading is not something the product can represent, so it cannot leak into a summary later.
- When it looks at a claim and finds nothing useful, it says why it stayed quiet. A tool that only reports its wins is a tool you learn to ignore.
Design your own consultant
The six above are the ones we shipped. Write a brief describing what a seventh should watch for, set its terms, and it works exactly like the others: same cards, same citations, same silence when it has nothing.
A brief is short and about the job rather than the method, the way you would brief a person. The terms are what it may read, how often it may speak, and what it costs.
Who it is for
Founders, product leads, researchers and account teams at software companies small enough that the same six people make every consequential call. If you spend a few hours a week in discovery, strategy or planning meetings where somebody states a figure and the room takes it, Meander is built for your week.