Asking for consent before you record

Goodmeet transcribes and summarises entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, no audio is stored, and your conversations are never used to train AI models.

It's still best practice to let others know that you're recording them.

That's partly because Goodmeet is invisible to everyone else on the call. No bot joins, no name appears in the participant list, and the recording indicator sits on your screen only. Unless you say something, nobody knows.

One sentence at the top of the call is usually enough:

"I'm using an AI notetaker so I'm not typing the whole time. It runs on my laptop and nothing gets uploaded. Any objections?"

Ask again whenever someone new joins a recurring meeting, and ask every time on external calls with clients or candidates.

If someone would rather you didn't, you can leave the recording off and still open a meeting note to type into, pause the recording while a sensitive topic comes up, or delete the meeting note afterwards. Deleting removes the transcript from your device.

Recording law also varies by country and, in the US, by state. Some places need everyone on the call to agree. We're not lawyers, so check with whoever handles legal or compliance at your company if you record as part of your job. When in doubt, asking everyone is never the wrong answer.