- Features
- AI working memoryDecisions, promises, and context that stay askable across conversations.
- Meeting memoryThe decision, the reason, and the source after the call ends.
- AI context layerPermissioned conversation context for the assistants you use.
- Team contextEarly access to selected team conversations, shared on your terms.
- Meeting NotesNotes that write themselves, with no bot in the room.
- Ask NodOne question, answered across everything you've captured.
- Ambient contextThe window you're working in, read as text.
- NotepadYour microphone only, for the thoughts that aren't a meeting.
- IntegrationsRead-only ChatGPT and Claude connectors awaiting directory approval.
- Use cases
- FoundersInvestors, customers, candidates — every promise in one place.
- SalesDiscovery and demos captured, with the follow-up drafted.
- Product managersDecisions and user interviews that survive the quarter.
- RecruitersIntake calls, panel debriefs and hiring-manager syncs, kept searchable.
- ConsultantsSix engagements, each kept to itself.
- EngineersThe decision, and the reasoning behind it.
- ResearchersForty interviews, in the participant's own words.
- CoachesOne session, and the six months around it.
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Nod for product managers
Six months later, someone asks why. Nod has the answer.
For product managers, working memory keeps user evidence, stakeholder commitments, design objections, and the reasoning behind roadmap choices searchable across quarters. Nod can capture and retrieve those conversations without a bot or stored audio. It helps find evidence; the product manager still evaluates research quality and publishes accepted decisions in the team’s system of record.
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By Vlad Kampov, Nod co-founder · Published July 19, 2026 · Updated September 1, 2026
- Product evidence
- Nod produces source-linked meeting summaries and supports questions across captured interviews, reviews, standups, and stakeholder calls.
- Limits
- Generated synthesis can miss minority evidence or decision status. Validate quotes and conclusions against transcripts and the product record.
- 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
- Why we chose that, and who disagreed
- The five interviews where users said the same thing
- What you told the stakeholder you'd ship
- The edge case someone raised in a review in March
For product managers
“What did users say about onboarding this month?”
The same complaint arrived in six different calls. Ask once and see it as a pattern instead of six anecdotes.
For product leads
“Why did we decide to cut that scope?”
The reasoning was clear in the room and gone by the next quarter. Get the decision back with the call it came from.
For user researchers
“Which interviews mentioned the permissions screen?”
Ask across every session at once, in the participant's own words, without rewatching a single recording.
Ask it the way you'd say it.
- What did users say about onboarding this month?
- Why did we decide to cut that scope?
- Which interviews mentioned the permissions screen?
- What did users say about onboarding?
A day with Nod
Four moments where the notes would otherwise be on you.
- 09:00Standup
Fifteen minutes you don't have to transcribe.
- Blockers captured without you typing
- The thing engineering flagged, kept in their words
- Recap written before you open the next tab
- 11:30User interview
Actually listen to the user.
- No note-taking split — you ask the follow-up instead
- Their phrasing preserved, which is the research
- Notes come back in the interview's own language
- 14:00Design review
The decision, and the reason behind it.
- What was chosen and what was rejected
- Who raised the objection, and what it was
- Findable in six months when it comes back up
- 16:30Ask Nod
Synthesis without a spreadsheet weekend.
- “What did users say about onboarding?”
- “Why did we drop the bulk import?”
- Answers across every interview and review at once
Decision memory
A decision log that writes itself
Everyone agrees a decision log is a good idea and nobody maintains one, because it means writing things down after the meeting you were already late for. Nod builds it as a byproduct of showing up: what was decided, in which conversation, with the objection attached.
Ask Nod
Synthesize interviews by asking
Fifteen user interviews is where research usually stalls: too much to reread, too little time to code. Ask across them instead — what people struggled with, which words they used, who asked for the same thing twice — and get the source notes so you can quote them properly.
Action items
What you owe each stakeholder
PMs are the connective tissue, which mostly means people are waiting on you. Nod ends each call with the specific list — the spec you said you'd share, the answer you owe engineering, the date you gave sales — so none of it quietly becomes next quarter's problem. The list lives in Nod, ready to copy into wherever your team tracks work.
No bot in your user interviews
A recorder joining the call changes the interview. People perform, hedge, and give you the answer they think is safe — which is the opposite of what research is for. Nod isn't in the room. 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 in the participant list — an ordinary one-to-one call
- No audio stored; transcripts and summaries encrypted in the EU
- No model training on your interviews or your users' words
- Notes come back in the language the conversation was in — 14 supported
Context that outlives the meeting.
The value of a PM's notes isn't in the week they were taken. It's in the quarter someone reopens the question — and Nod is the only version of them that's still there.
Frequently asked questions
Does a bot join my user interviews?
No. Nod captures your Mac's system audio instead of dialling in, so the participant sees a normal one-to-one call. 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.
Can it synthesize across several interviews?
Yes. Every interview lands in one searchable memory, so you can ask across all of them at once — what people struggled with, who asked for the same feature — and Nod shows the notes each part of the answer came from.
Does it keep the reason behind a decision, not just the decision?
That's the point of it. The summary keeps what was chosen alongside what was rejected and who objected, because the objection is usually the part you need when the question comes back six months later.
What about interviews in another language?
Nod transcribes and writes up in 35 languages, and the notes come back in the language the conversation was actually in.
Less writing up. More deciding.
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Download
One Mac app. Any Google account, personal or work.
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Run your week
Standups, interviews, reviews. Nothing joins them.
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Ask later
The decisions and the interviews are both still there.
Related
Guides: product decision log, decision log template, user interview notes, synthesize user interviews, and product manager meeting notes. For the general tool, see the AI meeting assistant.
Nod is also built for founders, sales, product managers, and recruiters.
Useful on day one. Hard to work without by month three.
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