For sales
No bot.
Just the call.
Mac Note Taker is the Gong-style call recorder that does not join the call as a bot. System audio capture grabs both sides. Transcription runs on your Mac. The customer just sees you on the other end of the Zoom.
The problem
Why your customers do not want a bot in the call.
Gong, Chorus, and Fireflies join the customer call as a participant. Enterprise security teams increasingly block them via SSO and MDM. SMB prospects ask "who is Otter Notetaker?" the moment they see the join request. Either way, the bot interrupts the trust you are trying to build.
- Procurement and security teams block third-party notetaker bots at the SSO / MDM level.
- Customer audio sits in a vendor cloud you do not control - on your future SOC 2 questionnaire.
- Per-seat sales platforms cost more than what an AE keeps from a single deal.
- Founders selling early have no time to deploy a CRM-integrated recorder before the call starts.
What this means for sales
The call recorder your prospect does not see.
No bot in the meeting
ScreenCaptureKit taps the OS audio mixer on macOS 14.2+. The Zoom or Meet client never sees a notetaker join.
Both sides, one transcript
Mic + system audio captured side-by-side, diarized into one timeline. Your voice is auto-labeled You; the customer voice gets a speaker label you can rename.
Same-day follow-up
5-bullet AI summary + action items per speaker. Paste straight into the follow-up email or the CRM by hand.
One-time cost
$149 lifetime instead of $40-100 / seat / month. Three Macs covered, so a founder, an AE, and a laptop in the bag all work.
In practice
What sales teams use it for.
Discovery + demo calls
- Both sides captured, no bot for the prospect to question.
- Topical sections so a 60-minute discovery is scannable in 60 seconds.
- Action items pulled out so the recap email writes itself.
Founder-led sales
- Solo founder running 8 calls a day with no time to babysit a notetaker.
- Hit record, do the call, get the transcript and summary when you hang up.
- Markdown export drops into Notion, Linear, or a sales CRM by hand.
Coaching + ramp
- Replay a junior AE call locally without sharing customer audio to a cloud vendor.
- Voice fingerprints recognize the same buying committee across calls.
- Pick the moments you want to share, manually, instead of broadcasting everything.
Side by side
Gong / Fireflies vs Mac Note Taker.
| Concern | Gong / Fireflies | Mac Note Taker |
|---|---|---|
| Bot joins customer call | Yes | No |
| Customer audio in vendor cloud | Yes | No - on your Mac |
| Procurement / SSO can block it | Often, yes | Nothing to block - it is a Mac app |
| Pricing | $40-100 / seat / month | $149 lifetime, 3 Macs |
| CRM auto-write-back | Yes | No - copy/paste or export |
| Coaching scorecards baked in | Yes | No - just the transcript |
Gong is a big revenue platform. We are a Mac app that gets you a transcript without a bot. Different jobs.
A call recorder for AEs whose prospects block bots.
$149 lifetime - 3 Macs - first 100 buyers use code FOUDNER for $79.