Bot-free by design
Captures through your Mac's system audio. No participant list surprises, no 'Otter has joined.'
A quiet Mac app, not another guest.
Most notetakers dial in as a robot participant, store your audio, and dump a wall of text into your inbox. Tacit does none of that.
Menu bar app
Present in the room.
Listens through system audio. Delivers a structured summary. Files every meeting into a Space your team can search.
- No bot in the participant list
- Team-wide, searchable memory
- Audio deleted at end of meeting
Meeting bot
A guest nobody invited.
Dials in as a participant. Records audio. Dumps a raw transcript into your inbox. Belongs to whoever scheduled the call.
- Visible robot in every meeting
- One person's inbox, not the team's
- Audio often stored — sometimes trained on
Team knowledge, not an inbox
Every meeting lands in a searchable Space. Ask a question, get a cited answer from the whole org's memory.
Privacy by default
Audio deleted at end of meeting. Never trained on. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA.
FeatureTacitGeneric bot notetaker
Joins your call as a participantNeverYes — visible bot
Works on in-person + phone callsYesNo
Needs calendar accessOptionalRequired
Guests notified a bot is presentNothing to notifyYes
Live structured summary during the callYesRare
Action items with owner + due dateAuto-inferredManual
Team-wide knowledge baseYes · SpacesPersonal inbox
Plain-language search across meetingsYes · citedKeyword only
Stores your audioNoYes · often indefinitely
Trains models on your meetingsNeverOften, by default
SOC 2 Type II · GDPR · HIPAAYesVaries
Workspace-level training opt-outYes · on by default (Enterprise)Rare
"Generic bot notetaker" reflects common defaults across widely-used tools. Individual products vary.
"But everyone uses a bot."
They did — because there was no other way. The bot was a workaround, not a feature. Tacit does the same job, minus the intrusion, and adds the part the bot never could: a memory the whole team can search.
- No awkward robot in the participant list.
- No 60-slide transcript dumped in Slack.
- No 'wait, is this being recorded?' from a client.