Nod for founders

You promised something on that call. Nod remembers what.

For founders, working memory connects investor, customer, candidate, and partner conversations so promises and patterns do not disappear between roles. Nod captures calls without a meeting bot, extracts commitments, and lets you ask across the week. It does not send follow-ups or update company systems, so the founder still reviews and executes each next step.

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By , Nod co-founder · Published July 19, 2026 · Updated September 1, 2026

Product evidence
Cross-session Ask can gather commitments or themes from different conversations, and the transcript keeps the original wording available.
Limits
Nod is a personal macOS product first. Team context is early access, and administrative rollout features are not generally available.
Method
The workflow separates what the user does, what Nod produces, and what still needs human judgment. Product behavior is checked against current Nod documentation; no customer outcome is generalized.

Sources and related reading

  • Every commitment you made this week, in one list
  • What the design partner actually asked for, in their words
  • Prep for the follow-up call in thirty seconds
  • The decision you made three months ago, and why

  • For solo founders

    “What did I say I'd do this week, and to whom?”

    Nobody is going to chase you, so the only list that exists is the one in your head. Nod keeps it from every call at once.

  • For technical founders

    “What did the design partner actually ask for?”

    You heard the request between two other things and started building the wrong half. Get it back in their words, not your reconstruction.

  • For founders who are also the sales team

    “Which customers asked about SSO?”

    One question across every customer call you've taken, so the pattern shows up before you commit a quarter to the wrong thing.

Ask it the way you'd say it.

  • What did I say I'd do this week, and to whom?
  • What did the design partner actually ask for?
  • Which customers asked about SSO?
  • What did I promise anyone this week?

A day with Nod

Four moments where the notes would otherwise be on you.

  1. 08:40Investor check-in

    Walk in knowing what you said last time.

    • Last quarter's asks, from your own notes
    • What you committed to, and whether it shipped
    • No recorder in the room with your cap table
  2. 11:15Design partner call

    Objections captured while you're still talking.

    • Pricing pushback, security questions, timelines
    • The exact words, not your memory of them
    • Zoom, Meet, Teams, or a phone on speaker
  3. 15:00Candidate screen

    Listen to the person, not your keyboard.

    • Salary expectations and notice period, captured
    • Written up before the next call starts
    • Still legible when you compare five of them
  4. 18:30Ask Nod

    The whole week, answered in one question.

    • “What did I promise anyone this week?”
    • “Which customers asked about SSO?”
    • Answers from across every call at once

Action items

Every promise comes back as a list

Not a recap you'll never reread. Nod pulls out the part that has your name on it: what you said you'd send, who is waiting, and by when. You leave the call with the follow-ups already written, which is the difference between a founder who is trusted and a founder who is chased.

Ask Nod

Ask six months of calls a question

Your conversations stop being thirty separate files and start being one thing you can query. Ask across every investor call, every customer call, every screen — and get an answer with the notes it came from, so you can check it before you act on it.

Meeting memory

It's worth more in month six than in week one

Most note tools give you the same value on day 400 as on day 1: a summary you read once. Nod's value compounds, because every call you capture widens what it can answer. The founder who has been running it for a year can ask questions the one who installed it yesterday simply can't.

No bot in the room, no audio kept

Founder calls are the ones you'd least like a third party sitting in on. Board conversations, term sheets, a candidate's current salary, a customer telling you what they really think. Nod captures the audio your Mac is already playing through native macOS APIs, so nothing dials into the call or shows up in the participant list. Each segment goes through a European proxy to hosted transcription, and Nod discards it when the text comes back. No model trains on the data. Groq may retain transient error or abuse logs for up to 30 days unless Zero Data Retention is enabled. Only the transcript and summary are kept by Nod, encrypted at rest in the EU. The full detail is on the security page.

  • Nothing joins the call — no name in the participant list, no banner
  • No audio stored, at Nod or at the transcription service
  • Notes encrypted at rest in the EU (AWS eu-west-1)
  • Any Google account works — no Workspace plan, no IT ticket

Stop paying the memory tax.

The cost of a founder's week isn't the meetings. It's the twenty minutes after each one spent writing down what just happened, and the thing you forget anyway. Nod takes both.

Frequently asked questions

  • Does a bot join my investor and customer calls?

    No. Nod captures your Mac's system audio rather than dialling in, so no participant appears and no recording banner fires. No bot doesn't mean no consent. Recording law varies by country and by state, and some of it asks everyone on the call to agree — so tell people you're taking notes. See recording consent laws.

  • Do I need my whole company on it?

    No — start on your own. Nod signs in with any Google account, personal or work, so there's no Workspace plan to buy and no rollout to run. Your meetings stay private unless you deliberately create a summary-only public link or, in approved early access, share a finished conversation or folder with a team. When you're ready to bring the rest of the team on, talk to us.

  • What does it cost?

    There's a 14-day free trial with no card required, and paid plans start at $12/month billed annually. See pricing.

  • What if the call isn't on Zoom?

    It still works. Because Nod captures at the operating-system level rather than joining a meeting, it handles Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, a phone call on speaker, and a conversation happening in the room. It's macOS only.

Less writing up. More building.

  1. 1

    Download

    One Mac app. Sign in with any Google account.

  2. 2

    Talk

    Take your calls the way you already do. Nothing joins them.

  3. 3

    Ask

    The notes are written. Ask across all of them whenever you need to.

Related

Bringing on a first hire, or handing an account to someone else? Team context is how what you promised reaches them without a meeting. Selling as well as building? See the AI sales assistant. Hiring? See Nod for recruiters. For the general tool, start at the AI meeting assistant, or read why there's no bot.

Nod is also built for founders, sales, product managers, and recruiters.

Useful on day one. Hard to work without by month three.

Start free on macOS, no card. Every conversation you capture today is one you can still ask about a year from now.

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