Keen Bean skips the meeting bot entirely

Keen Bean captures meetings without a bot joining the call. Granola, Otter and Fireflies all show up as a participant in the attendee list. Keen Bean skips that step and reads system audio directly off the machine it's running on.

Organizations that ban recording bots outright can't use tools built around them. Keen Bean is built to sidestep that ban rather than argue with it.

During a call it emits tasks and decisions as cards in real time, not a transcript to comb through afterward. It also drafts specs, diagrams and mockups from what it hears, putting it closer to a working-session tool than a note-taker. Transcription and model processing happen outside the company's own infrastructure, so the audio still leaves the laptop. No bot touches the meeting, but the recording still does.

It's $19 a month or $39 a month, with a 14-day trial. The Show HN post sits at 11 points.