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You ran the meeting, so you couldn’t take notes.
The bot that took them made your client uncomfortable and gave you a transcript nobody will read.
And the write-up is still yours to do tonight — because there’s nobody to hand it to.
The honest answers
Questions worth asking.
So it writes my deliverable for me?
No, and we won’t pretend otherwise. It gets you a first draft while the conversation is fresh.
Plenty of what a finished document needs won’t even have been discussed yet — that part is still yours.
What changes is that you edit something instead of facing a blank page.
Do I need my own API keys?
No, and that’s the point of the subscription. When you activate, Keen Bean provisions its own capped
keys for transcription and for the models, on our accounts. You never open a provider account, never
paste a key, and never get a second bill to reconcile. If you cancel, billing stops at the end of the
period and every file the app made stays yours.
What happens when the allowance runs out?
Bean keeps listening. Building pauses — you still get the transcript and the recording, the
drafting stops — and nothing is ever cut off in the middle of a meeting. Top up whenever you want,
or wait for the reset on your billing date.
Is my client’s audio safe?
The path hasn’t changed: audio goes from your Mac to a transcription service to be transcribed, and the transcript
to the model. Nowhere else. We run no proxy, so your meeting content never touches anything of ours.
Because the keys are ours we can see how much a subscription has spent — that’s what fills
the bar — and nothing about what was said.
What if I cancel?
Whenever you like, and nothing of yours is held hostage. Billing stops at the end of the period
you’ve paid for. After that the app stops starting new meetings, a meeting already running finishes
on transcription alone, and every note, transcript and draft stays in your folders, readable and
exportable. Leave whenever you like — you keep all the work.
What if you stop working on it?
Your files are Markdown and JSON, and the app runs on your Mac rather than on a service that can be
switched off. If Keen Bean stopped being maintained tomorrow, everything it made would still open in
any editor. That’s a design decision, not a reassurance.
Does it record people without consent?
It asks you to confirm everyone knows, once per meeting. Telling them is your job; the app just makes
it hard to forget.
Price
Two sizes. The AI usage is included.
One price covers the app and the AI behind it —
transcription and models both. There are no provider accounts to open, no keys to paste and no
second bill to reconcile at the end of the month.
Seed
US$19/month
A normal week of client calls, with Bean drafting as you go.
Sprout
US$39/month
Back-to-back days, or Bean turned most of the way up most of the time.
Every plan starts with 14 days free.
Card up front, nothing charged until day 15, and cancelling before then costs nothing. The trial runs on
its own smaller allowance; if you spend it early, Bean keeps listening and drafting pauses until your
first billing date.
How the allowance works
Each plan carries a monthly allowance of AI usage, shown in
the app as a bar that empties as you work. How fast it empties is your call: the HOW KEEN?
slider sets how hard Bean works, so a quiet morning of listening costs a fraction of an afternoon
spent drafting. The app tells you what’s left in hours, not in cents. Sprout carries twice
Seed’s allowance. On a yearly plan the allowance still resets every month.
When the bar empties, Bean keeps listening. Building
pauses — you still get the transcript and the recording — and nothing is ever cut off in the middle of
a meeting. Top up any time, or wait for the reset on your billing date.
- Everything in the app, running on your Mac
- The AI usage included — transcription and models, on capped keys the app provisions for you
- Top-ups whenever a month runs heavy
- Cancel whenever you like — billing stops at the end of the period you’ve paid for, and every file stays yours
Your next meeting is going to happen anyway.
Download it, run it on real calls for 14 days, then decide. If it
doesn’t earn its place by the second real meeting, cancel before the first charge and keep every file it made.
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