Pro AI feature
Story Mode.
A recap that reads like someone was paying attention — characters, decisions, the moments that mattered, and what to do next.
Plus, in v3.0: Story Episodes group recurring topics across recordings into narrative arcs — the dbt question that's surfaced four times across the project gets its own episode, with the recordings, the speakers, and the through-line.
Quick clarification
Story Mode vs AI Summary — they are different things.
AI Summary is the Pro-tier auto-summary that runs on every recording: a faithful, descriptive bullet recap of what happened. Always-on, fast, low-overhead.
Story Mode is the Pro AI tier. It is a narrative recap — the same source material rendered as prose with characters, decision points, and emotional beats. Built on top of the AI Summary engine, but a different output shape, generated on demand. Read the AI Summary when you want the facts; read the Story Mode recap when you want the story.
Story Episodes is new in v3.0. An episode is a Story Mode arc that spans multiple recordings — recurring topics that have come up in three, four, six different conversations get grouped into a single narrative thread. This is where Story Mode stops being per-meeting and starts being how the project's "season" reads.
Bullet-point summaries are the wrong shape.
Most "AI summaries" produce a flat bulleted list — five things that were said, in roughly the order they were said. The shape is convenient for the model and useless for the human.
What you actually want, two days after a meeting, is the story of the meeting. Who showed up. What was on the table. Where it got tense. What changed someone's mind. What the room agreed to do. Bullet lists don't reproduce that. Story Mode does.
What a Story Mode recap contains
Setting
Two sentences. Where you were, who was there, why this conversation happened. Drawn from calendar context + the recording's first minute.
The arc
A short narrative — three to five paragraphs — describing how the conversation moved from open to resolved. The model picks the moments that changed the trajectory: a question that re-framed the issue, a concession, a piece of new information.
Direct quotes
Three to five quotes, each ≤ 15 words, attributed by speaker, anchored to a timestamp you can tap to play. The quotes are chosen for memorability — the line that hung in the air, not the line that summarized the slide.
What changed
What the room agreed to that wasn't agreed to before. New decisions, new dates, new ownership, new constraints.
What's still open
The threads that didn't close. The things someone said "we'll come back to" and didn't. The follow-up questions you should bring to the next meeting.
Action items
Pulled from Promise Tracker. Owner, deadline, source quote, status.
When Story Mode is the right shape
Story Mode is the recap you'd hand a colleague who missed the meeting and needs to walk into the next one informed. It's the recap you'd send to a stakeholder who only cares about the outcome. It's the recap you'd want yourself, three weeks from now, when the call has faded.
It is not the right shape for every recording. A 30-second voice memo to yourself doesn't need a "setting" paragraph. A weekly standup with seven action items is better served by a compressed bullet view. Bonfiyah lets you toggle between Story Mode, Bullet Summary, and Full Transcript on every recording — pick the shape that matches how you'll use it.
Sharing
Story Mode recaps share as Markdown, PDF, or rich-text email. The default share-text format is designed to read naturally in iMessage and Slack — short paragraphs, no jargon, attributed quotes. The audio file is not included by default; if you want to include it, the share sheet lets you attach the original recording, link to a Bonfiyah-hosted audio share (Pro AI), or embed the timestamped quote audio inline (Pro AI).
FAQ
Which plan includes Story Mode?
Story Mode is a Pro AI feature, generated on demand. Story Episodes — the v3.0 arcs that span multiple recordings — are part of the same Pro AI tier. The always-on AI Summary that runs on every recording is the separate Pro-tier feature.
How is Story Mode different from the AI Summary?
AI Summary is the Pro-tier auto-summary that runs on every recording — a faithful, descriptive bullet recap, always-on and fast. Story Mode is the Pro AI tier: the same source material rendered as narrative prose with characters, decision points, and emotional beats, generated on demand. Read the AI Summary when you want the facts; read the Story Mode recap when you want the story.
Is Story Mode the right shape for every recording?
No. A 30-second voice memo to yourself doesn't need a "setting" paragraph, and a weekly standup with seven action items is better served by a compressed bullet view. Bonfiyah lets you toggle between Story Mode, Bullet Summary, and Full Transcript on every recording — pick the shape that matches how you'll use it.
How can I share a Story Mode recap, and does it include the audio?
Story Mode recaps share as Markdown, PDF, or rich-text email, with a default share-text format designed to read naturally in iMessage and Slack. The audio file is not included by default; if you want it, the share sheet lets you attach the original recording, link to a Bonfiyah-hosted audio share, or embed the timestamped quote audio inline.
Are the quotes in a recap accurate and tied to the recording?
Each recap includes three to five direct quotes, each 15 words or fewer, attributed by speaker and anchored to a timestamp you can tap to play. Speakers are identified by voice biometrics, never by transcript text, so the attribution follows the actual person who spoke.
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