The version of AI meeting notes that works for a Chicago business is rarely the version a national vendor would sell you. We build the one that fits how your team actually operates - usually with fewer parts than the off-the-shelf pitch.
For Chicago operators who want a working pilot in weeks, not a year-long programme.
Our goal is to give Chicago businesses a three-day weekend, so people can spend more time with their families and the people they love :)
What AI meeting notes actually does
Every call, site visit, or toolbox talk captured, summarised, and turned into action items in your CRM or project tool. No more 'who was meant to do that?'.
- 01 Works on Teams, Zoom, Meet, or in-person recordings
- 02 Action items auto-pushed to ClickUp, Asana, or Jira
- 03 Searchable history across every meeting your team holds
- 04 Confidentiality controls - what stays internal, stays
Built on: Whisper Claude Recall.ai Vercel
What you actually get
Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. This is what is in the box.
- A working pilot, in productionNot a prototype on someone's laptop. The first slice of AI meeting notes runs against real work within weeks.
- Your data stays yoursIt runs on your accounts and your tools. If we part ways you keep the system and everything in it.
- The workflow mapped before codeWe write down what good looks like for Chicago businesses first, so nobody is guessing at handover.
- Support after it landsThe people who built it stay reachable when the business changes shape around it.
How AI meeting notes compares
The two things most businesses do instead, and where each one runs out.
| Hiring for it | An off-the-shelf tool | Kiwi Dynamics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to how you work | Fits perfectly, costs a salary | You bend your process to suit the tool | Built around the workflow you already run |
| Time to something useful | Immediate, and permanent | Quick to switch on, slow to make fit | A working slice in weeks, then hardened |
| Who owns the data | You do | The vendor, on the vendor's terms | You do, in your own accounts |
| When it breaks | That person sorts it, if they are in | A support queue and a ticket number | The people who built it |
| What it costs | A salary, every year, forever | Per seat, forever, used or not | Scoped and quoted up front |
The Chicago context, plainly.
- Chicago runs on logistics, manufacturing, finance and a genuinely diverse industrial base - AI here means fitting into operations that were already running lean before AI existed.
- A major freight and logistics hub, a deep manufacturing base, and a futures and options trading industry with zero patience for anything slow. Chicago businesses want AI that respects an operation that already runs tight.
We work with teams across Chicago: The Loop · River North · Wicker Park · Lincoln Park · Evanston · Naperville.
Talk to us about this →How we build AI meeting notes for a Chicago team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Chicago business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI meeting capture.
Talk to usHow the work runs
- Find the one workflowWe look for the job costing Chicago businesses the most hours or the most leads, and deliberately ignore the rest for now.
- Ship a working sliceA narrow version goes into production in weeks, against real work, so the value shows up before the build is finished.
- Prove it, then widenWe measure it against what the work cost before. If it does not pay for itself, we say so rather than scaling it.
- Harden and hand overLogging, fallbacks and a real handover, so it keeps running when we are not in the room.
The outcome for Chicago teams
The shape of the result for Chicago teams: Saves managers ~5 hours a week on follow-up admin. Built on Whisper, hardened with the rest of the stack as it scales.
Not your typical AI agency.
Honest about what AI can and cannot do
Ships the one workflow that pays for itself
Hours given back, never the size of the invoice
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
FAQ
How long does AI meeting notes take to ship for Chicago businesses?
We aim for a working pilot inside 4-6 weeks - narrow scope, real Chicago businesses data, measurable outcome. From there it's another 6-8 weeks of hardening before you'd consider it production. Full rollouts (multiple sites, multiple teams) typically land in 3-4 months.
How do you price AI meeting notes engagements?
Fixed-scope pilots first, then either project pricing or a small monthly retainer for the ongoing work. No long lock-ins, no 18-month black-box deals. Most Chicago businesses are surprised how small the first cheque is.
Do you have proof this works for Chicago businesses?
Direct case study: Saves managers ~5 hours a week on follow-up admin. Happy to walk you through full numbers on a call.
Who owns the code and the model setup?
You do, on delivery. We deploy AI meeting notes into your own cloud account where possible, with the model setup, prompts, evals and integration code all checked into a repo you own. Whisper sits in your account too - we don't operate it from ours.
Talk to us about this
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it - no obligation.