Reads what changed
Who moved, who deferred, who got talked over, and which “yes” sounded more like surrender than agreement.
The room is data too.In your corner · in every meeting
You take the meeting. Donna takes the room.
She joins your Google Meet, catches the tension, remembers every promise, and tells you what actually happened afterward — privately, bluntly, with receipts.
The direct answer
What is Donna? A privately hosted AI meeting strategist that attends Google Meet as a visible participant, records on your own server, names speakers from live captions, and writes the private report your ordinary notetaker is too polite to produce: decisions, receipts, tensions, power dynamics, and what nobody said.
The private debrief
She heard the sentence. Donna heard the meeting.
Summaries preserve the words. Donna reconstructs the dynamics around them, cites the evidence, and tells you the next move. Try three real report lenses below.
Illustrative transcript
17:08
Maya“I think we’re mostly aligned.”
17:14
Arjun“Sure. Whatever gets this moving.”
Donna's take
“Mostly aligned” is doing heroic work. Arjun conceded the room, not the point.
Donna's order: Reopen the rollout risk before it becomes an email nobody wants to write.
Illustrative transcript
43:12
Raj“We should be able to ship it, probably by end of next week.”
43:26
Elena“Let’s call that Friday, then.”
The receipts
“Probably” tried to leave through the side door. Elena closed it.
Commitment pinned: Raj owns the release. Friday is the deadline. The timestamp is not optional.
Illustrative transcript
09:40
Nina“We’ll revisit churn after the customer calls.”
31:05
Nina“Let’s park churn until we have more signal.”
Memory with timing
That question was parked last Tuesday too. At this point, it has reserved parking.
Open question carried forward: What is driving churn, and who owns the answer before the next review?
Sample language; real reports are generated only from your meeting evidence.See all nine report sections →
Three practiced instincts
High EQ. Long memory. Zero patience for fog.
Donna is designed around the person every important room needs: the one who notices the shift, remembers the history, and says the useful thing before the team repeats itself.
Remembers what slipped
Open commitments and dodged questions carry into the next report. “We discussed this already” finally comes with a date.
Corporate amnesia, denied.Pins the next move
Every owner, action, and deadline lands in Donna’s Orders. Vague promises are flagged before they become folklore.
“Soon” is not a deadline.
Not a note-taker. An ally.
The person in your corner, even when the room isn’t.
Donna appears visibly in Meet, listens without taking over, and gives you the private, high-EQ read afterward. The wit is deliberate. The certainty is earned. Every strong opinion points back to a quote, a timestamp, or a pattern she remembered.
“I don’t collect notes. I collect leverage — with timestamps.”
The Donna standard: loyal to the user, ruthless about the evidence.
- Visible attendance
- Citation-first candor
- Private infrastructure
The report · Exhibit A
Eight sections. Zero corporate amnesia.
First, Donna extracts the facts. Then she writes the brief: opinionated enough to be useful, disciplined enough to show her work.
What Happened
The meeting at a glance for someone who was not there and has thirty seconds: one short paragraph, then the discussion in order as transcript-grounded bullets. Factual and complete on its own.
Donna's Take
The real story of the meeting in two or three blunt sentences — the subtext everyone will pretend they did not notice.
What Got Decided (And What Didn’t)
Every decision with the tradeoff behind it. Decisions made without discussing a tradeoff get flagged — that silence is a red flag, not a footnote.
The Receipts
Every commitment in the speaker’s exact words with a timestamp. Owner, action, deadline. Vague deadlines (“soon”, “next week”) are flagged as soft.
Where It Got Interesting
Tensions and pushback: who was on each side, how it resolved — or didn’t — and what conceding cost.
What Nobody Said
Open questions that got dodged, topics raised and dropped, and the things someone almost said before pulling back.
Who Moved
Position shifts: who walked in saying one thing and walked out saying another, and what caused the pivot.
The Room Read
Power dynamics. Who ran the meeting versus who ran the conversation; who deferred, who dominated, who got talked over.
Follow-Up (Donna's Orders)
What happens next, who does it, by when. Dodged commitments get pinned down here.
Six lenses · one Donna
A sprint review is not a boardroom. She knows the difference.
Donna works out what kind of session she just sat through, then reads it the way that room deserves — same candor, same receipts, different instincts. Changed your mind about which read you needed? Ask for another one on any past meeting; the transcript is already hers.
The Boardroom
Power dynamics, subtext, and what nobody said — the classic Donna.
The Architect
Technical decisions, trade-offs, and the risks everyone waved away.
The Facilitator
Every idea captured, energy mapped, nothing left in the parking lot.
The Delivery Desk
Shipped vs. promised, blockers counted, scope moves named.
The Mentor
The knowledge itself, structured to teach — plus every gap in the handover.
The Dealmaker
Signals decoded, objections tracked, and whether the deal is actually alive.
Any past meeting can be re-read through a different lens on demand, straight from the stored transcript — no re-recording.All six lenses, section by section →
After the read
A brief nobody can open is just a diary.
The read leaves the room the way you need it to — and the raw record stays yours, in full.
Send it to people
Email the read to named colleagues, or hand out a link that opens without a sign-in. Revoke it the moment it stops being their business.
Sharing is a decision, not a default.Take it with you
Export any read as a branded PDF or clean Markdown — for the board pack, the ticket, or the wiki that actually gets read.
Your evidence, portable.Keep the raw record
The raw transcript is yours: search it, toggle timestamps, copy it, or download it as text — with speaker names, and timestamps on or off.
No export tax, no lock-in.Custody · Exhibit B
A confidante should not own your history.
Donna runs on your own server. Recordings stay on your disk; transcripts, reports, and commitments live in your own database. Flocci Speech Recognition and Flocci Intelligence process through keys you control — no meeting-notetaker vendor builds its archive from yours.
Your own database on your server; reports as Markdown; recordings on your disk. Flocci Speech Recognition, running on infrastructure you control; Flocci Intelligence, two analysis passes.
Google MeetDonna joins visibly, like any invited participant.
Your serverCapture and Donna's meeting pipeline run here.
Your databaseYour recording archive, transcripts, reports, and receipts live here.
Your API keysFlocci Speech Recognition and Flocci Intelligence process transcription and analysis on your accounts.
The category check
Notes are nice. Leverage is nicer.
Cloud bots summarize. Local listeners transcribe. Donna attends for you, keeps the archive on your infrastructure, and writes the opinionated report with the evidence attached.
| Cloud bots Otter · Fireflies · Fathom · tl;dv · MeetGeek | Local listeners Granola · Meetily | Donna | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joins the call as a participant | Yes | No — captures from your device | Yes — from your server |
| Recordings stay off notetaker clouds | No | Mostly | Yes — your disk, your database |
| Attends when you can’t | Yes | No | Yes |
| Report depth | Summary + action items | Transcript + summary | Decisions, receipts, tensions, room read |
| Pricing | Per seat, per month | Free/app pricing | Credits by usage — or your own infrastructure |
Honest detail, competitor by competitor: read the full comparisons. What changed in this market during 2026: the market notes.
Where she earns the chair
For meetings where “we’ll circle back” gets expensive.
Sales calls, leadership reviews, client conversations, and one-on-ones all create promises that disappear in the gap between what was meant and what was minuted.
Case file 01
Sales calls
CRM notes capture what the rep remembers, which is mostly what the rep said.
Case file 02Client meetings
Scope creep starts verbally, in a meeting, weeks before it shows up in email.
Case file 03Team standups
“Almost done” is doing unpaid overtime as a status for work that is 40% done.
Case file 04One-on-ones
Career asks made quietly in a 1:1 get forgotten by review season — by the manager, never by the report.
Case file 05Board & leadership meetings
Official minutes are sanitized after the fact; the real decision history lives in nobody’s document.
Case file 06User research interviews
Notetaking while moderating splits your attention exactly when the user goes off-script — where the insight is.
One Flocci account
Great alone. Unmatched together.
Donna keeps the sensitive detail in Donna. Flocci receives identity and minimal meeting-coverage metadata — not transcripts, participant names, or report contents.
- Live
One login, no new password. Donna uses the same Flocci identity as Pulse, Leads, and the rest of the suite.
- Live
The chat bubble on this page is Flocci Chat. It already understands Donna’s public product context and follows the same assistant pattern used across Flocci.
- Wired
Meeting coverage reaches the Flocci Graph. Donna emits joined and reported events with meeting IDs, Meet codes, source type, duration, and aggregate counts — never participant names, transcripts, or report text.
- Next
Receipts that travel with permission. Commitments are a natural handoff to work apps and Leads, but that content-level connection is not live yet.
Donna remains deliberately BYOK: no seats and no shared credit wallet for meeting processing. Explore the wider suite at flocci.in.
No vague answers
Ask straight. Donna will too.
The practical details: what she is, where the data lives, which meetings she covers, and what running her costs.
What exactly is Donna?
Donna is a privately hosted AI meeting attendee: software you run on your own server that joins your Google Meet calls as a visible participant, records audio and screen video, transcribes with Flocci Speech Recognition using keys you control, and delivers a nine-section meeting-intelligence report analyzed by Flocci Intelligence with your keys.
How is Donna different from Otter, Fireflies, or Fathom?
Three ways. Custody: those are cloud services that store and process your meetings on their servers; Donna keeps everything on yours. Depth: they produce summaries and action items; Donna reports decisions with their tradeoffs, verbatim commitments with timestamps, tensions, position shifts, and the power dynamics of the room — with real speaker names, not "Speaker 1". Memory: open commitments carry into every new report, so "that's the second week this was promised" is something Donna actually says.
Is my meeting data really private with Donna?
Recordings live on your server’s disk, transcripts and reports in your own database, and the dashboard behind authentication you configure. The only external calls are the transcription and analysis requests made with keys you own. No notetaker vendor holds a copy of anything.
Which meeting platforms does Donna support?
Google Meet today, as a live attendee. Donna also ingests uploaded recordings from any source — Zoom exports, phone recordings, past meetings — and runs the same transcription and analysis pipeline on them.
Why is it called Donna?
The name honors the archetype of Donna Paulsen from the TV series Suits: the person who knows everything, notices everything, and says the thing everyone else was avoiding. The software is our attempt to give every team that person. (Donna is a Flocci Technologies product, unaffiliated with the show.)
What does Donna cost?
There is no per-seat subscription. You run Donna on your own server and pay your own metered API usage for Flocci Speech Recognition transcription and Flocci Intelligence analysis — typically a fraction of multi-seat notetaker plans for a whole team.
Your next meeting is already on the calendar
Bring the person who remembers everything.
Open Donna, connect your Google Calendar, and let her attend the meetings where the subtext matters as much as the transcript.