Steno for Executives
Board prep and M&A talks that never leave the room.
The conversations that decide a company's direction — board prep, M&A, exec offsites, restructurings — are the ones you least want on a third party's servers. Steno keeps them on the device they're held on, with no cloud, no bot, and no vendor in the loop.
Why cloud tools don't fit
- Cloud notetakers put your most sensitive strategy discussions in a vendor's hands.
- A recording of an M&A or board conversation held by a third party is a real exposure.
- A bot in an executive session is a leak risk and a trust problem.
Strategy stays private
Board, M&A, and offsite discussions are processed and stored on the device — never uploaded, never held by a vendor.
No third party in the loop
There's no external processor to trust, subpoena, or breach. The material stays where the conversation happened.
No bot in the session
Steno captures audio directly, so nothing joins an executive meeting as a participant.
Verifiable discretion
Open source, so the confidentiality claim can be checked, not just believed.
On compliance
Steno runs entirely on your device. Your meeting recordings, transcripts, and summaries never reach our servers — there is no third-party processor handling your meeting data, which addresses a meaningful part of HIPAA, GDPR, and data-residency exposure. (Those frameworks also cover safeguards, agreements, and processes that remain your responsibility — no tool hands you compliance.) Steno itself isn't a certified cloud service, because there is no cloud service handling your meetings to certify — and that's the point: the vendor-breach risk that frameworks such as SOC 2 exist to assure against isn't in that path.
Questions
Only you. Recordings and transcripts are local files on the device — there is no vendor copy in a cloud, so no third party holds or can be compelled to produce your executive discussions through Steno.
No. Everything stays on the device. That means full privacy and also no cloud backup — export anything you need to keep.
Yes. Steno records system and microphone audio locally, so both sides of a call are transcribed with nothing joining the meeting.
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