Shoulder Surf

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SHOULDER SURF: MEETING & INTERVIEW ASSISTANT

You can take notes, or you can be in the meeting. Not both.

I built Shoulder Surf because I kept losing the conversation while trying to capture it. Looking down to write something means missing the next thing. Trying to remember everything means listening less. The harder you work to stay on top of a meeting, the less present you actually are.

Shoulder Surf takes the tracking off your plate so you can stay where you should be: in the conversation, looking at the person in front of you.

STAY PRESENT It listens, transcribes, and quietly keeps a running record of what was said and who said it. Rolling summaries refresh every few minutes, so if your attention drifts you can catch up in seconds without breaking eye contact.

ASK WITHOUT INTERRUPTING Tap once to ask anything about what was just said. Pull the action items, get a fact checked, request a suggested response, or ask whatever you want, and the answer lands before the conversation moves on. Read it on screen, or hear it privately through your AirPods.

TURN MEETINGS INTO DELIVERABLES This is where Shoulder Surf goes past note taking. Ask it to build something and it does: a real Excel spreadsheet, a project Gantt chart, a summary document, a follow up email. It generates the actual file, right there in the chat, from what was discussed. Hand it a document too, a spec, an agenda, a contract, and it reads that alongside the meeting so its answers are grounded in your real material, not guesswork.

CHAT WITH YOUR MEETINGS Every session is saved as a complete record: full transcript, captured insights, photos, and AI responses. Chat with any meeting to surface a decision or pull a detail. Or chat across an entire project, choose how many past meetings to include and what to draw from, and ask questions that span weeks.

REMEMBER ACROSS MEETINGS Meeting Memory carries decisions and commitments into the next meeting. Plus brings your recent meetings into every answer. Pro brings all of them.

HOW IT WORKS Shoulder Surf runs on your iPhone, beside your meeting. It captures audio through the microphone and transcribes on device in real time. Nothing to install on your computer. No bots joining your calls. Never in a screen share. Works with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, in person, or anywhere conversations happen.

FEATURES • Live transcription with on-device speech recognition • Speaker labels so you know who said what • Quick Prompts: summaries, action items, suggested responses, fact checking, and your own custom prompts • Generate real files: spreadsheets, Gantt charts, documents, and emails from your meeting • Attach documents so the AI answers from your own material • Web search on demand for questions that need current info • Private audio responses through AirPods or Bluetooth headphones • Camera capture: slides, whiteboards, documents • Shareable meeting reports • Save action items straight to Reminders • Apple Watch: trigger queries from your wrist, phone untouched • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen for at a glance status • Available in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese

PRIVACY FIRST • On-device transcription means audio never leaves your phone • API keys stored in your iOS Keychain • iCloud sync optional, no account required for on-device features • Your data, your control

PLANS • Free: on-device Apple Intelligence AI at no cost, plus a recurring monthly cloud AI budget of about 5 hours a month that renews. Reports, People, monthly searches and files. • Plus: unlimited cloud AI, Memory across recent meetings, document attachments, project chat, more searches and files each month. 7 day free trial. • Pro: everything in Plus, plus full-history Memory and advanced AI for reports and analysis. • Bring Your Own Key: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, and more.

Subscriptions auto renew monthly. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings.

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