Blog
Notes from the people building Boswell — local-first meeting notes for the Mac.
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Tooling for the outer loop
The AI engineering world spent 2026 building harnesses for the inner loop. The outer loop, where humans set direction, still runs on memory and action items. Notes on fixing that with Markdown.
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The transcript is untrusted content
Teleport's Agent Trust paper warns about agents reading data an attacker can write to. Meeting transcripts are exactly that, anyone on the call writes to them. Notes on keeping the candid layer out of the blast radius.
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Useful work per dollar
OpenAI's playbook for managing AI spend has one line with no product attached to it, reusable context. That's the input the vendor can't sell you, because it's yours. Notes on where it comes from.
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The context was in the meeting
An a16z essay argues the scarce AI skill is turning fuzzy intent into clean instructions. We think the clean version already exists, spoken aloud in meetings, and then evaporates. Notes on that gap.
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Guard the ideas, not the lines
AI can write more code than any of us can read. What it can't do is decide what the software should be. Notes on where our attention actually goes.
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How Boswell turns your meetings into notes, all on your Mac
Boswell records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings entirely on your Mac. The AI that writes your notes runs on-device by default. Cloud models are opt-in, never the default.
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Welcome to the Boswell blog
Why we're starting a blog, and what to expect: notes on building a local-first meeting-notes app for the Mac.