What did we agree on?

Every call,written up.

The notetaker that never records.It hears your call start, writes the note, and files it in Obsidian or Apple Notes.No bot joins. Nothing is uploaded.

macOS 14.4+ · free for 7 days, no card

Capturing Zoom31:07

Live transcript

Them: So timeline-wise we'd want to start fairly soon.

You: We can start in two weeks from our side.

Them: On budget — 25k is too high for this phase.

You: Then let's scope a pilot instead.

Them: Deal. Pilot at €18k for three months.

Transcribed on this Mac. The audio is never written to disk.

Fazit / 2026-08-02 Sarah — pricing.md

Sarah — pricing

31 min · 2 people · €248.00

Pilot agreed at €18k for three months, starting in two weeks.

Action items

You — send the SOW by Friday

Sarah — intro to Marcus (CFO) next week

The problem

The twenty minutes after every call are eating your day.

You finish the call useful and present, then spend twenty minutes rebuilding it from memory. Or you weren't present, because you were typing. Six calls a week is most of a working day spent writing down things you already said.

01

Typing while listening is neither.

Split your attention between the client and the keyboard and you get shallow notes on top of a shallower conversation. Clients can hear it happening.
02

“…what's that joining our call?”

Cloud notetakers put a bot in the room and send your client's voice to someone else's servers. Over six weeks and 47 meetings, 32% of clients asked about the bot unprompted. Nobody asked about the invisible one. Method and sources on request.
03

Your calls never reach your notes.

Your thinking lives in Obsidian. The conversations that actually decide things live in your head for about a day, then nowhere.
How it works

How a call becomes a finished note.

One real session, end to end. Sarah's pricing call, thirty-one minutes, nothing pressed at either end, and no audio written to disk at any point.

01

It hears the call start

Nothing to press and nothing to add to the invite. Fazit watches which app is holding the microphone, so the session opens when Zoom, Meet or Teams does, and closes when they do.

Capturing Zoom31:07

Zoom took the microphone. Fazit opened a session on its own.

Listeningno bot joined

Session opened automatically · nothing pressed

02

It writes while you talk

Speech becomes text on your Mac as the call runs, using Parakeet through CoreML. The audio exists in RAM and nowhere else, so there is no recording to upload even if something wanted to.

Capturing Zoom31:07

Them: On budget — 25k is too high for this phase.

You: Then let's scope a pilot instead.

Them: Deal. Pilot at €18k for three months.

Transcribed on-device · audio never written to disk

03

It prices the room

Fazit reads the meeting off your calendar, counts who joined, and runs a live cost against the clock. A 31-minute call with two senior people costs about €248. Most teams have never seen that number.

Capturing Zoom31:07
Cost of this meeting

€248.00

Sarah — VP Sales€139.50

You€108.50

31 minutes · 2 people · €248.00

04

It files the note and forgets the call

A finished note lands in Obsidian or Apple Notes: decisions, numbers, and who owes what by when. You keep the note. The audio never existed to keep.

Obsidian / Fazit / Sarah — pricing.md

Sarah — pricing

Pilot agreed at €18k for three months, starting in two weeks.

Action items

You — send the SOW by Friday

Sarah — intro to Marcus (CFO)

Written to your vault · nothing left behind

Dictation

Hold fn and talk, anywhere on the Mac.

The speech model that writes your call notes also types for you. Hold the key, say the sentence, let go, and it lands in whatever field had focus.

  • Any app that takes text: your browser, Slack, Mail, a terminal, the box you are reading this in.
  • Punctuated and de-stuttered, never rewritten. A length check discards any tidy-up that started editing you instead of typing for you.
  • Double-tap fn to keep it listening until you tap again, for anything longer than a comfortable hold.
  • Recognised on this Mac by Parakeet through CoreML. Nothing is uploaded, and the audio is gone the moment the text exists.
Reply to Sarah

Message

Thanks Sarah, I'll send the SOW on Friday and introduce you to Marcus next week.

Fazit never takes focus, so the words go where your cursor already was.

Listening…Release fn to insert
The Fazit principle

Not “we delete your recordings.”
There are no recordings.

Every other notetaker asks you to trust a retention policy. Fazit removes the thing the policy is about. There is no audio file at any point, so deletion is not a promise anyone has to keep.

Participants2

Zoom · Sarah — pricing

SSarah Kleinhost
YYou
No apps or bots

No bot joins the call

Your client sees two people in the participant list, because there are two people. Nothing to explain at the top of the call.

Outbound1

Over 31 minutes of capture

127.0.0.1:11434local model
No transcript uploaded
No other destinations

Nothing leaves this Mac

Transcription runs on-device and the note is written by a local model on localhost. The one-time model download is the only network traffic Fazit ever makes.

Fazit2 items

~/Obsidian/Fazit

Sarah — pricing.md4 KB
Marcus — intro.md3 KB
No audio files

No recording to hand over

Audio is transcribed in memory and gone the moment text exists. There is no file to leak, subpoena, or accidentally sync to a cloud drive.

For regulated and confidential work

Nothing is retained, so there is nothing to disclose.

Lawyers, therapists, financial advisers and consultants keep banning cloud notetakers for the same reason: a recording on someone else's server is a record you can be asked to produce. Fazit never makes one. You can read exactly how, and request source access for review.
Get started

Four steps to your first never-recorded note.

  1. 1

    Create your account

    One email, no password. A sign-in link lands in your inbox and opens your account. VAT is handled at checkout and your license attaches to the same address.

  2. 2

    Download and open Fazit

    Start a 7-day trial or buy outright, and the download unlocks in your account. Drag to Applications, open it, point it at your Obsidian vault. The usual Mac install, done in a minute.

  3. 3

    Grant two permissions, once

    macOS asks for the microphone and audio capture on your first session. Fazit installs the local models itself, so there is nothing to configure in a terminal.

  4. 4

    Take a call. Watch the note appear.

    Say the honest line, “I take notes with a local tool, it doesn't record audio,” then forget about it. The session starts on its own and the note is waiting when you hang up.

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