Cadence
What it does
Each direct report has one running thread. After a meeting you dictate or type what happened, and Cadence structures it into a summary, decisions and action items split by owner. Open items, talking points for next time and recurring topics stay threaded across every meeting, so preparing for the next 1-on-1 takes a minute instead of a search through old notes.
Principles
- The AI writes a draft, never the record. Every structured note is reviewed and editable before it is saved. Changes the AI proposes to existing items can be rejected.
- Personnel notes are sensitive data. Audio is transcribed and discarded immediately; it is never stored. Analytics carry IDs only, never names or note content.
- Vendors stay behind interfaces. Transcription and AI extraction can be swapped without touching product logic.
How it is built
A NestJS API with PostgreSQL, a React front end, Whisper for transcription and Claude for structuring the notes. The interface is German-first with English available, and works on phones and desktop.