Use case · Internal Meetings
For team standups, 1:1s, retros, and the meetings that decide things.
Bonfiyah captures the recording, transcribes it on-device, and pulls out the decisions, action items, and follow-ups that usually get lost between the meeting ending and someone's memory failing.
Features teams lean on
The Bonfiyah features built for internal meetings.
Each one has a deep-dive page — click through if you want the full mechanics.
- Action Items →
Owner + date + source-quote — write the recap from the recording. - Promise Tracker →
Every commitment from every standup, kept-or-not. - Project Context →
Quarter-long initiative briefed in 250-450 words across every meeting. - Team Dynamics →
9-box matrix + Pointillist Painting on the team itself. - Pre-Brief →
Walk into every recurring meeting with the last one's open threads. - Truth Layer →
When this week contradicts last week — flagged. - Story Mode →
Narrative recap that reads like someone took good notes. - People Memory →
A profile per teammate — what they own, owe, and emphasize.
Why not a meeting bot
Meeting bots — Otter, Fireflies, Read, Granola — work fine for video calls. They're terrible for in-person meetings, hallway conversations, and the standup-after-the-standup where the actual decisions get made. Bonfiyah is iPhone-native — pull the phone out, hit record, the meeting is captured.
For Zoom/Teams calls, you can either run Bonfiyah on your iPhone (with the Mac handling the call) or use Bonfiyah's Mac Catalyst version with the system audio captured. No bot in the meeting, no "Otter is recording" disclaimer, no participant list email.
What gets pulled out
Pro AI's Action Items extract every task with owner + deadline from the transcript ("Sarah will own the Q4 deck by Friday"). Story Mode (Pro AI) gives you a 3-paragraph narrative recap to send to anyone who couldn't attend. Promise Tracker turns commitments into tracked cards that follow up automatically.
For recurring meetings, Pre-Brief (Pro AI) reads your calendar and 30 minutes before each meeting hands you the recap from the last one — what was open, what you'd agreed to, what you should ask about. End the standup-the-day-before-the-standup loop.
Privacy considerations for internal use
Every team has different policies on internal recording. Bonfiyah records on-device; your audio uploads to our backend only to be transcribed — deleted from our servers within 7 days — and syncs to iCloud only if you enable it. The consent module logs verbal acknowledgement when other people are in the room — useful both legally and as a basic professional courtesy.
If your company has a "no recording without consent" policy, Bonfiyah's consent module surfaces that requirement before you press record. If your company has a "no recording, period" policy, this isn't the tool for you in those meetings.
FAQ
How is this different from a meeting bot like Otter or Fireflies?
Meeting bots join video calls. Bonfiyah is an iPhone, iPad, or Mac app you run yourself — no bot in the meeting, no "is recording" disclaimer, no participant-list email. It works for in-person standups, hallway conversations, and the room where decisions actually get made. For a Zoom or Teams call, run it on your iPhone or use the Mac version with system audio captured.
Do I need Pro AI for this?
No. Free records 120 min/month on a single device, fully usable, with two-party consent tools included. Pro ($14.99/mo intro, then $24.99) adds unlimited recording + multi-device iCloud sync. The cross-recording AI here — Action Items, Promise Tracker, Story Mode, Pre-Brief, Team Dynamics, Project Context — is the Pro AI suite ($24.99/mo intro, then $34.99), 7-day free trial.
What about our internal recording policy?
Every team's rules differ. The consent module logs verbal acknowledgement when others are in the room and surfaces a "no recording without consent" requirement before you press record. If your policy is "no recording, period," this isn't the tool for those meetings. You're responsible for knowing the recording law in your jurisdiction.
Where does the audio and transcript go?
Live captioning runs on-device (Apple Speech). Audio uploads to our backend only to be transcribed, and raw audio is deleted from our servers within 7 days. Recordings sync to iCloud only if you turn it on. Bonfiyah does not train any AI on your transcripts, and notifications are local — no push-notification server in the loop.
How does it keep speakers straight across recurring meetings?
Speakers are identified by voice biometrics, never by transcript text. Once a teammate is tagged, that identification carries across recordings and devices — the same person is labelled consistently from one standup to the next. That's what makes Team Dynamics, Promise Tracker, and People Memory work over time.
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A team-meeting workflow: how to capture standups without bots, how Action Items + Promise Tracker reduce follow-up work, how to share recaps with people who weren't there.
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