Keen Bean drafts specs live from Mac meeting audio
Michael Jones's Mac app captures computer audio, drafts diagrams and mock-ups as people talk, and saves its output in user-owned local files.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Keen Bean
Why it matters
Keen Bean pushes meeting AI from recall into production. Its test is whether live drafts save enough follow-up work to justify another subscription and cloud processing.
Michael Jones, an Australian independent software maker, built Keen Bean around a pointed pitch: meeting software should begin the document people need after the call, rather than leave them with another transcript to process.
Keen Bean listens to both sides of a meeting through a Mac's audio, without entering Zoom, Google Meet or another call as a visible participant. As people talk, Keen Bean says it identifies decisions, tasks, risks and blockers, then starts drafting artifacts such as a specification, diagram or rough interface mock-up.…
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