Ainoova Companion for Windows · Early access

By the time the summary arrives, the decision is made.

Companion is a second pair of ears in every meeting. It listens from your own machine, keeps your talk time honest, and tells you the best next move while the conversation is still live. No bot joins the call, and it stays private to you, the way your own notes are.

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Transcript
Live coach
Best next move
What a summary cannot fix
The metric that changed between minute six and minute twenty-two.
The commitment that left the room without a name on it.
The 1:1 where you did seventy percent of the talking.
The claim you could not check until after the call.

None of these appear in a post-call summary. All of them appear while there is still time to do something about them.

How it works

Two audio channels in. Nothing out that you didn't approve.

Companion captures your microphone and your system output as two separate streams, so it always knows which side of the table said what. Everything else is built on that split.

01

Capture

Your mic and Windows loopback audio as two 16 kHz streams. No meeting bot, no extra participant, no invite to accept.

On your machine
02

Transcribe

One multichannel Deepgram Nova‑3 socket returns a per-speaker transcript, and keeps up when the room switches language mid-sentence.

Deepgram
03

Measure

Talk share, silence and monologue length are computed locally from the diarized turns. Nudges fire on your playbook's own thresholds.

No model calls
04

Coach

Claude reads a rolling window of the conversation and returns one best next move, the playbook card that fits, and a running summary.

Claude Haiku
05

Close

A debrief written in your playbook's sections, filed next to the transcript, the recording and the tasks it found.

Claude Sonnet
Built to be discreet

The quietest tool in the meeting.

Most meeting AI announces itself, joins as a participant and uploads the room to somebody else's cloud. Companion does none of that. It is a window on your own desktop, private to you the way your notebook is.

The main window is where you work. A mini overlay is opt-in from the tray when you want it floating above the call: always on top, click-through until you reach for it, and shrinkable to a single line.

Invisible to screen shares

Companion's windows are marked as protected content, so your prep and your coaching never land on the screen you are sharing, recording or casting.

Your meetings stay on your disk

Each call writes its transcript, brief, summary, tasks and recording to a folder under %APPDATA%/companion/sessions. There is no Ainoova server holding your calls.

Read-only when it looks things up

Research runs through an explicit read-only allowlist that fails closed. Companion drafts; it never sends on its own.

Nothing executes unattended

Suggested actions arrive as chips you arm, edit and run yourself. A drafted Slack message takes two deliberate clicks to send, and can only be sent once.

During the call

One thing to do next, not a dashboard to read.

The coach ranks everything it is seeing and shows you the single most useful move, badged so you know what kind of move it is. Dismiss it and the next one takes its place.

Ask Do next Answer now Respond Watch Make space Join in Playbook

A transcript that knows the room

Both channels are diarized separately, so a colleague who speaks up on your side becomes their own voice rather than being folded into you. The first mic voice becomes "You".

Talk balance, and a nudge when it slips

Your share and theirs, over the last five minutes. Run past your playbook's ceiling or hold the floor too long and you get one line: hand it back, or jump in.

Ask about any line, mid-call

Tick a transcript line, a note or a task and ask about it. "Ask" answers from the meeting itself; "Check sources" goes and looks it up in what you have connected.

Correct it in the moment

Fix a misheard line or add a caveat and Companion treats your note as authoritative from then on. Originals are kept, edits are marked.

Every turn is tagged as it lands

decision commitment contradiction objection risk assumption question asked you fact ask

Each tag carries a one-line note. A commitment carries who owns it and when it is due, and says so when either is missing. A contradiction names what it contradicts earlier in the same conversation, which is how you catch the number that moved between slide four and slide nine.

And a suggested next step, at most one per turn

Check Slack for pricing thread Draft Slack to John Task: review Friday

Chips are proposals. Click one and the instruction lands in the dock, editable, with an Execute button. Companion suggests first and waits.

Playbooks

A different meeting deserves different coaching.

A playbook decides what "too much talking" means, how long a monologue can run, what the coach watches for, and which sections your debrief is written in. Five ship with Companion.

Playbook Built for Your talk ceiling Monologue cap Debrief sections
General Any meeting or call 70% 120s Summary · Decisions · Action items · Open questions
Sales Sales calls and demos 65% 90s Summary · Discovery learned · Objections handled · Action items · Follow-up email
External / Negotiation Vendors, banks, advisors, partners 60% 90s Summary · Terms discussed · Commitments by side · Action items · Open questions
Internal / MBR Management meetings, MBRs, leadership syncs 75% 150s Summary · Decisions · Action items · Risks raised · Open questions
1:1 / Interview 1:1s, interviews, coaching conversations 40% 60s Summary · Themes · Concerns raised · Follow-ups

The Sales playbook also ships knowledge cards that fire on what was actually said, including Objection: Too expensive, Competitor mentioned and a Pricing structure card you fill in with your real numbers. Everything is editable in the app: goals, context, the guidance prompts, the talk-time guardrails and the debrief sections. Save a playbook and it applies to the next meeting you start, never to one already running.

In the room

Seven meetings that went differently.

Same app, same two audio channels. What changes is the playbook, and what the conversation happens to need at that moment.

Quarterly review · sixteen minutes apart

The number that changed at minute twenty-two.

Long meetings drift, and nobody in the room is holding both figures at once.

Them06:12ARR is about 4.2 million on a run-rate basis.fact
Them22:04We are a little under four, run-rate, if you strip out the pilots.contradiction
Watch

This conflicts with the 4.2m ARR quoted at minute six. Ask which number goes in the deck.

What changed

Caught in the room, not in the minutes. A contradiction tag always names the earlier line it disagrees with, so you quote it back instead of half-remembering it. The number that ends up in the deck is the one you agreed on out loud.

Every meeting tool on the market is a historian. It tells you, accurately and too late, what you already lived through. The gap is not between a good summary and a bad one. It is between minute twenty-two and the following morning.

Before you join

Walk in with the answer to "where did we leave this?"

Every meeting opens on a briefing chat rather than a blank recorder. Ask for exactly what you need and Companion goes and reads before the call starts.

Whatever the briefing turns up stays with the live coach for the rest of the call, and is filed next to the transcript afterwards. Ask again mid-meeting and the answer arrives with the conversation as context.

BriefingMeridian renewal review
What happened last time, and what is still open?

You met Dana and Marc on 21 May. Two threads never closed:

  • Audit-trail coverage, raised in the security review. No answer was ever sent.
  • Pricing pushback tied to their board cycle rather than to the product.

Their CRM record shows one renewal deal open this quarter, and Marc committed to introducing legal.

EmailSlackTeamsFiles3 past meetings
Afterwards

The follow-through writes itself.

End the meeting and the debrief streams in, written in your playbook's sections and faithful to what was actually said. Tasks arrive with owners and due dates already attached.

Everything stays yours to edit: rename the meeting, fix a line, reassign a task, add the context only you had. The recording plays back in the app, and clicking any line jumps the audio to that second.

Later, ask your own archive. Search the words, or ask Companion about a decision, a commitment or a moment you half-remember, and it comes back with the meetings and the exact quotes.

DebriefSales playbook

Summary

Renewal is live but gated on audit trails, not price. Dana needs a board-ready answer before March.

Objections handled

  • Price framed as board optics; reframed onto the included SSO work.
  • Alternative vendor raised but not named.

Action items

Send the audit-trail spec to Dana — you, Friday
Introduce legal to their counsel — Marc, no date

Follow-up email

Drafted and waiting in the meeting, ready to edit and send yourself.

Early access

Prepare well, stay decisive, follow through.

We are onboarding early users in small batches. Tell us what you run meetings for and we will send you the installer with setup instructions.

You're on the list.

We will email the installer and setup steps to the address you gave us. If nothing arrives within a day, check your spam folder.

Windows 10 or 11. During early access you paste your own Deepgram and Anthropic keys into Settings, so transcription and coaching bill to you at provider rates with nothing in between. Searching your email, Slack, Teams and files needs Claude Code installed with those tools connected; without it, briefings fall back to calendar and CRM context and say what they could not reach.