Ben Lang

Shadow - AI that sees, listens, and understands every meeting

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Your meeting AI is missing half the picture. It hears what's said but ignores what's on screen. Shadow captures both—no bot needed—and turns that full context into action with custom AI tasks. Stop recapping. Start delivering.

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Jay Song
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 Jay from Shadow here. First, a huge thank you to everyone. Last time we launched, we got so much love and support from the PH community. Your feedback and encouragement pushed us to make Shadow even better. Today, we're back with a huge update that will completely change how you interact with your meeting AI. When we last launched, Shadow was your ears in every meeting—automatically listening and turning conversations into post-meeting tasks. Now, Shadow has become your eyes too. 👀 What's new: 🖥️ Smart Screenshots Shadow now automatically captures what's on screen during your meetings. Slides, demos, shared docs—all saved and ready for AI to reference. No manual screenshots needed. ⚡ Supercharged Skills Fully customizable AI tasks that run on your meetings. Export to Markdown or send to any tool via webhook. Build your own workflows. What hasn't changed—the things that make Shadow different: 🚫 No bots Shadow works in the background. No awkward "AI Notetaker has joined" moments. 🎯 Speaker identification Always know who said what. 🔒 Privacy first Local transcription, local storage. Your data stays yours. We never use it for training. We built Shadow to help you leave meetings with progress, not just notes. Now with the full picture—what was said AND shown—you can finally make that happen. Would love to hear your feedback. Let's chat in the comments! 🙌
Nastassia

@jaythesong congrats on the launch :) for me the best feaure you highlight is auto start and stop. I am a tech writer, so I am sooo freaking afraid of losing internet connection during interviews with devs, and when I rejoin and my notetaker doesn't it's really a pain point.

and spealing only with humans, not bots is a pleasure <3
keep going :)

Jay Song

@nastassia_k Thanks so much, Nastassia!

I’m really glad the auto start/stop helps — we’ve worked really hard to make that experience seamless.

Really appreciate the support 🙏

Anton Loss

Congratulations on your launch! 🚀
Extremely competitive market today, but no clear winner established yet, so best of luck!
I think marketing matters more than ever, and you definitely have some sleek looking visuals!

Jay Song

@avloss 99% agreed! I think marketing matters more than ever too. Once a new market seems to take off, 100 copycats appear in a couple of weeks. The 1% is that I still have the naive belief that a great product will win at the end of the day. Thanks a lot for the comment!

Daniel Hong

One of the best in the market!

Jay Song

@daniel_hong thanks a lot Daniel for the comment! 🫡
Appreciate your support!

Roger Wong

I've been using Shadow daily for a couple months now and it's rock solid. I've used other meeting transcribers before, but Shadow is incredibly reliable. Its notable features for my workflow are:

  • Privacy-focused (on-device transcription, cloud LLM for outlines and summaries)

  • Speaker diarization! This is key for me as it can separate the different speakers on a call.

  • Automatic workflows that they call Skills. Once a meeting finishes, you can create custom "skills" for further processing.

  • From a design standpoint, it's also very polished.

My only knock on it would be that's it very un-Mac-like. Cmd-period doesn't bring up Settings, etc. But that's pretty minor. Truly an essential product in my daily productivity stack.

Jay Song

@roger_wong this made my day! 🥹

Thank you for the continued support. It really means a lot to have users like you who genuinely care about making Shadow better. I'm so glad to hear it's become part of your daily stack.

And thanks for flagging the shortcut thing. We totally missed that, and I appreciate you pointing it out. We'll get those Mac conventions right. Thanks again for your support Roger!

James Park

As someone involved in GTM strategy and execution, Shadow has made it much easier to revisit important meetings without rewatching full recordings. Having both the spoken conversation and on screen context available in one place makes reviews faster and more useful.

The ability to quickly pull out next steps, draft follow up emails, or create custom AI outputs turns meeting recaps into something actionable. It feels thoughtfully designed for teams that want to spend less time recapping and more time moving work forward.

Jay Song

@james_park16 Hi James, thank you so much for the thoughtful review!

We’re thrilled to hear that Shadow is helping your GTM strategy and execution by making meeting reviews faster and more useful. Our goal was exactly what you described: providing both spoken and on-screen context in one place so teams can skip the full recordings and focus on moving work forward.

It’s great to see that you’re already making the most of the action items and follow-up drafts!

@jaythesong, I use granola, been a big fan, but I love what I saw on the website - Attribution of speakers and contextualization of screenshots and screen content. Just downloaded this. Gonna try Shadow :)

Jay Song

@kjosephabraham thanks Joseph! Glad to hear that you've just downloaded it! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks a lot your the comment again!

Daniel Ph

I rarely post on PH to shout out to a product, but Shadow is an app that does exactly what I was searching for: listening to meetings and giving me smart AI tools to work with the transcript afterwards. It does a fantastic job at that and @jaythesong is super supportive when I had questions.

Jay Song

@tjapie thanks so much for the comment! It really means a lot coming from someone who doesn't usually post! Always happy to help if you have more questions 🙌

Alex Cloudstar

Half my calls are people click-walking through decks and Figma. Most tools miss that. No bot bubble joining is a relief. If it pulls action items from what’s on screen + what’s said, that’s actually handy. Curious about multi-screen or fast tab hopping.

Jay Song

@alexcloudstar thanks for your comment! Shadow works by automatically detecting the meeting screen and taking screenshots whenever there are major changes. You can also manually select a specific window or screen if you prefer!

Since Shadow focuses on capturing context rather than recording every single pixel, rapid tab switching might not be captured perfectly—though it depends on how fast you switch! I hope you give it a try and share your thoughts.

Christophe HK
I read in your FAQ that to prevent data leaking to openai, gemini, anthropic, we do need to turn off meeting outline, to not use skills and to not ask anything to the assistant. isn't it a bit dangerous for professional meetings, and so... useless if we can't avoid data leaking?
Giacomo Giorgianni

I've been using Shadow from the very beginning while in Beta test and I've seen this product improving a lot. What I love the most about Shadow is the non-invasiveness as only you will know it's listening, the accuracy in transcripting and the auto-start on a new meeting. In my opinion it's also fairly priced!
I'm looking forwards to better integrations with other tools like NotebookLM or for the ability to research in all the meetings at once. 🙌🏼

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