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Shadow — Your personal bot-free AI meeting assistant
Introducing Shadow: your botless AI meeting assistant for automated productivity. From note-taking to action item completions, it's your co-pilot from start to finish. Elevate every meeting into actionable insights.
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Tony Han
This is interesting, I think it will be helpful for me personally, if the website explains more about HOW the AI works. My assumption is it is listening all the time and knows when conversations have started. Is the AI on device? And how does pricing work?
Great idea though, since bot always creeps people out.
Congrats @jaythesong on the launch!
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@tonyhanded Hey Tony! Shadow isn’t listening all the time actually, it’s better than that! If you turn on auto pilot mode, it’s able to detect when you’re starting a meeting or conversation through the initiation of an app like zoom, meets, or huddle and that triggers it to start and finish with you.
@tonyhanded Hey Tony, thank you for your feedback. We will add more information on how the AI works as you mentioned! It doesn’t listen all the time; rather, it observes a couple of statuses on your device, such as microphone activation, and only listens to your conversation when you are in a meeting. As for transcription and speaker diarization, these are done locally on your device, but generating meeting notes and outlines is done using APIs!
Hey Product Hunters! 👋 Excited to introduce you to Shadow!
🙏Thankful for Product Hunt:
A huge thank you to ProductHunt for giving us all a community. We’ve been working night and day and can’t wait to share Shadow with more people.
🥷🏻 How Shadow Was Born : 🥷🏻
I'm Jay, the CEO at Shadow. Our mission is to empower teams to have more productive and effective meetings with our AI meeting assistant. We believe that meetings should be a catalyst for action and innovation, and Shadow is here to make that a reality by taking you from start to finish. As an AI meeting assistant Shadow is :
🤖 Bot-free (works online/in person)
🪄 Proactively assist with task management and auto completes tasks for you
⚙️ Works with any conferencing app from FaceTime, huddle, conferences, podcast, etc!
📅 Equipped with integrations to update meeting inputs directly onto your favorite work tool
🥷🏻 Autopilot Mode: Shadow operates entirely on autopilot and makes sure you never forget
📝 Shadow extracts key meeting insights so you don’t have to go back and listen to meeting recordings
😊 We Couldn’t Have Done it Without YOU:
What are your biggest challenges when it comes to meetings or AI SaaS tools? Let's brainstorm solutions together and see how Shadow can address those pain points.
Join the conversation! 💬 over at Slack (shadowcommunity.slack.com) or connect with me through Linked In (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeon...
@matsilverstein Thanks Mathieu! Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
I've been using Shadow for a while, and it's only gotten better and better. I love it. It works automatically, I don't need to press anything and I'm not adding another bot into the video call. Plus it works across like everything. It's pretty awesome.
@sentry_co Hey Andre, thank you for your comment. Shadow is not only less intrusive but also helps you get your post-meeting tasks done 20x faster! Give it a try!
Hey, congrats on the launch! It seems like it provides a "no bots" experience. But how does it comply with all the major platforms in terms of privacy? Is there any indication that the call is being recorded?
@semanser Thank you Andriy for your comment. We are considering providing a feature that allows users to overlay a sign on their camera to show they are using Shadow, but it isn’t on the platform yet. Currently, we strongly recommend users to check and follow their applicable laws.
How far away is the Windows version? Really dislike the bot meeting assistant experience!
Absolutely love this. Having this run locally is a game changer. Brilliant experience so far. All my meetings get recorded and I create a database of transcripts. Excited to try the advanced tools.
@collymonster Couldn't have done this without your support. 🫡 Thank you as always!
Great work! I always take a ton of notes in meetings... which takes away from my ability to stay fully engaged.
However, even if I could use this on my company computer (which blocks every LLM/AI tool), I would probably balk at using this in meetings... but mostly because it's not clear what not being a bot guarantees me in terms of privacy. How does not being a bot assure privacy? Do I have to download an LLM? If data is being sent off platform, it's a non starter. Would be concerned about potential misunderstandings with people on calls this thing "listens" to. Thanks!
@anjinks Thanks for your comment, Alex! Currently, transcription (including speaker diarization) is done locally on your device, which helps ensure privacy. However, we do use APIs to generate meeting notes and outlines, so you may need to adjust settings to meet your company's policy. We've tested local LLMs, but at the moment they aren't good enough in terms of accuracy and performance. We're working to move as much processing as possible to the device side. Shadow might not be ready for you yet, but we'd love to keep you updated!
Launching soon!
This looks really good! Does it run ML locally or does it make external API calls to complete tasks like create transcripts from conversations?
Is there any information on how it works? My biggest concern atm is privacy
Why is most of the content marked as "coming soon"? I couldn't properly test the app due to this 🤔
Another issue - the video showcases integrations, but I couldn't find information on how to configure them within the app.
@mattisssa Hey Artem, thank you for your comment! You got us - not everything we promised in the concept video is there yet. However, 'most' features are actually available, except for recording video and cloud sync!
@isaac_c_lee Hey Isaac, thank you so much for your comment! Please do give it a try and let me know what you think!
Sweet launch! Those bots in zoom calls are super annoying, so clever solution :)
I'd love to try it, but I'm using Apple Intel. Do you plan on adding support for that?
@cameron_napoli Hey Cameron! Thank you for your comment. We do! We need some more time to optimize the overall process, as Shadow processes your data locally on your device. Please stay tuned!
@allenjseb Hey Allen! Glad to see one of our earliest users here! Couldn't have done it without you!
I was in search of a note-taking app without a bot having to be present in all of my meetings. I literally JUST discovered this today via Reddit w/o prior knowledge of the launch, so ironic. Love to see that the team is actively building this from the ground up. Congrats team! You have my support! 🙌
@brianbristol Thank you, Brian, for coming all the way to Product Hunt from Reddit to support our launch! If you need any help, please let me know.
Congrats on your launch! This is really a game changer for meetings! My vote goes to you!
