Donna vs Jamie
Donna or Jamie? Pick Jamie if you want bot-free capture with EU data residency and a long language list. Pick Donna if you want analysis beyond summaries — six lenses, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read — from a Flocci product that treats sharing as a decision.
Jamie is the strongest argument for the bot-free school: no participant to admit, nothing to explain to a client, and a serious European privacy posture. The limits are structural rather than fixable — a recorder on your laptop cannot attend without you, cannot see the shared screen, and still sends the audio somewhere you do not own.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | Jamie | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| How it attends meetings | No bot — the desktop app captures your machine’s audio | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar |
| Meeting video capture | No — audio only, no shared-screen capture | Yes — screen video and audio, compressed after the call |
| Transcription | Vendor-managed, multilingual | Flocci Speech Recognition, with real speaker names from Meet captions |
| What you get after the call | Structured notes, transcript, action items across many languages | Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders |
| Pricing | Per-seat subscription with a free tier | Credits by usage — no per-seat fee |
Where Jamie genuinely wins
- Nothing joins the call, so there is no admission friction and no bot in a client’s participant list — the smoothest option for external meetings.
- It captures in-person and hybrid conversations too, because it records the room through your device rather than a meeting platform.
- A clear compliance story for European buyers: EU hosting, stated data residency, and audio deleted after transcription.
Where Donna wins
- A device recorder only attends when you do. Donna joins independently, so the meeting you skipped still produces a record — and she captures the shared screen, which no device-audio recorder can.
- EU hosting is still someone else’s notetaker cloud. Donna’s archive is a private Flocci workspace: you decide who reads a report, and public links exist only when you mint them.
- Jamie writes notes; Donna writes a read — six lenses, decisions with the trade-off behind them, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read.
The read, since summaries are not the product
Jamie: Structured notes, transcript, action items across many languages. Donna: Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| Jamie | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free tier available | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Per-seat subscription; see their pricing page | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
Jamie’s figures were read from their own pricing page on 29 July 2026; check it before you buy, because plans change without notice. Donna’s current credit costs live on your billing page at account.flocci.in.
Questions, answered straight
Is Donna a bot-free notetaker like Jamie?
No, deliberately. Donna joins the call as a visible participant, which is what lets her attend meetings you skip and record the shared screen. If nothing may ever appear in the participant list, Jamie is the better fit; if coverage and custody matter more, Donna is.
Jamie is EU-hosted — is that the same as private?
It is a strong version of somebody else’s cloud: a defined region, stated retention, and no training on your content. Donna does not pretend there is no operator — Flocci is the operator — and the product answer is access: Google sign-in, a noindexed dashboard, and sharing that is always an explicit act.
Can Donna capture in-person meetings like Jamie can?
Not live — she attends Google Meet. But any recording of an in-person meeting can be uploaded and run through the same transcription and analysis pipeline, which covers the same need with an extra step.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.