Jonathan Goldsmith

I love how Shadow focuses on the most important aspect of the meeting: that is, in my opinion, the primary goal of Shadow is to guide users to "get things done" by providing various well-planned tools. There are so many apps that categorize themselves as "AI Notetaker", and the main catch of most of them (if not all) is that it can save user's time tremendously by "summarizing only important parts of a meeting", "easily writing meeting notes", "taking notes during a meeting" and "organizing all meetings for easy retrieval later" so that the user can spend more time on "what really matters". I never found value in those apps. Some features, like archiving of all meetings, really are, but summarizing a meeting that I was present at, or automatically taking a note for me without knowing what's important to me .... not so much. Granola, Jamie, Fireflies, Otter, the list of other apps I've tried goes on but their features rarely diverge from what I said above. Their goal is to organize meetings into easily digestible, bite sized information that can be easily retrieved, and nothing more. On the other hand, Shadow focuses on "what needs to be done post-meeting". The "skills", which are actions that can be applied to any meeting after it ends, are clearly designed to provide insight that are specifically important to me. The feature focuses on what "I" should know or need to do so that I can plan next steps accordingly, instead of simply listing all related facts as mentioned during the meeting that may or may not be related to me, sometimes horrendously out of context. Shadow has a strong philosophy in that it somewhat forces you to follow their way of approaching any meeting. Their perspective is reflected in the overall product, some in subtle ways, others not so much. If this design doesn't bother you, I'm sure Shadow will provide you better results.