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 the meeting record must stay on your own infrastructure and you want analysis beyond summaries — verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read, all from a bot on your own server.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Jamie’s cloud (SaaS), with an on-device recorder | Your own server (privately hosted) |
| Where your recordings live | Processed and stored on Jamie’s EU infrastructure | Your server’s disk and your own database — nothing on a vendor cloud |
| 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’s iCal feed |
| Meeting video capture | No — audio only, no shared-screen capture | Yes — screen video + audio, compressed server-side after the call |
| Transcription engine | Vendor-managed, multilingual | Flocci Speech Recognition, with your key |
| Who owns the AI keys | Jamie | You — your Flocci Speech Recognition and Flocci Intelligence keys |
| 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 model | Per-seat subscription with a free tier | No per-seat fee — credit-metered usage on the hosted service, or only your own infrastructure and API usage when deployed privately |
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 cloud. Donna’s recordings and reports never leave infrastructure you run, which is a different guarantee from a well-chosen region.
- Jamie writes notes; Donna writes a read — decisions with the trade-off behind them, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read, through the lens the session deserves.
The data question, since nobody else leads with it
Jamie: Processed and stored on Jamie’s EU infrastructure. Donna: your server’s disk and your own database — nothing on a vendor cloud. 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. Self-hosting removes the processor entirely — the recording is born on your disk and the transcript lives in your database, so region questions become your own configuration.
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.