Bluedot

Bot-free meeting recording, notes, clips, and team knowledge

KINDA · partial replacement
price variesestimated build time multi-dayreplaced by 0 people

The visible meeting recorder loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. Bluedot earns its keep through capture, integrations, reliability, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.

Build verification: not recorded. How we judge buildability

What you give up

  • cross-call team analytics
  • meeting-bot auto-join
  • live multi-speaker accuracy
  • calendar and CRM integrations

Why people still pay

Bluedot: Customers pay for automatic capture, dependable speaker handling, search across calls, and notes arriving without manual file wrangling.

Your build guide

The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.

Before you start

  • Runtime and tools: Python, FastAPI, SQLite, FFmpeg and a local faster-whisper worker with a React transcript editor.
  • Before starting: An installed speech model, adequate local disk space and a recording made with participant permission; any optional hosted model needs a separately disclosed API key.
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Python, FastAPI, SQLite, FFmpeg and a local faster-whisper worker with a React transcript editor
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Data design: Store Meeting, AudioSource, Segment, SpeakerAlias, SummaryRevision and FollowUp; every extracted commitment points to a segment and unspoken owners/dates stay unset.
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Setup: An installed speech model, adequate local disk space and a recording made with participant permission; any optional hosted model needs a separately disclosed API key
engineering roadmap

Implementation plan

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Phase 1

Pin the working slice and create its example input: Import a consented meeting recording, correct transcript speakers, generate a compact summary and manually approve CRM-style follow-up notes. Confirm setup: An installed speech model, adequate local disk space and a recording made with participant permission; any optional hosted model needs a separately disclosed API key.

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Phase 2

Implement persistence and write-time invariants before decorating the UI: Store Meeting, AudioSource, Segment, SpeakerAlias, SummaryRevision and FollowUp; every extracted commitment points to a segment and unspoken owners/dates stay unset.

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Phase 3

Connect the working view to real saved state. Keep original timing alongside corrected text. Speech recognition does not itself establish speaker identity; permit manual speaker labels. Show undecodable audio and uncertain passages without inventing words.

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Phase 4

Expose the app-specific limits and recovery path in context: Start with uploaded audio; live system recording varies by platform. Audio sent to an optional cloud summarizer is not local-only, and speaker recognition accuracy is not guaranteed.

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Phase 5

Walk through this concrete acceptance case and preserve its exported evidence: Use a recording saying 'someone should follow up'; the output must leave the owner unknown, link the quote and preserve the corrected speaker labels after regeneration. Finish the README and backup/restore instructions; report unfinished capabilities explicitly.

the pro prompt
download AGENTS.md
Build the following focused alternative to Bluedot. This is a deliberately limited personal or small-team substitute, not parity with the paid service.

WORKING SLICE
Import a consented meeting recording, correct transcript speakers, generate a compact summary and manually approve CRM-style follow-up notes.

SETUP AND ARCHITECTURE
Use Python, FastAPI, SQLite, FFmpeg and a local faster-whisper worker with a React transcript editor. Prerequisites: An installed speech model, adequate local disk space and a recording made with participant permission; any optional hosted model needs a separately disclosed API key. Before integrating anything, record actual versions and permissions, plus model files or provider limits only where used, in the README; make unavailable dependencies visible rather than simulating success.

DOMAIN MODEL AND INVARIANTS
Store Meeting, AudioSource, Segment, SpeakerAlias, SummaryRevision and FollowUp; every extracted commitment points to a segment and unspoken owners/dates stay unset.

IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT
Keep original timing alongside corrected text. Speech recognition does not itself establish speaker identity; permit manual speaker labels. Show undecodable audio and uncertain passages without inventing words. Provide an input/setup view, the main work view, and a review/export view appropriate to this workflow. Preserve the last saved state if a job or save fails. Include empty, loading, permission-denied, partial and retryable-error states. Log identifiers and error categories without secret values or unnecessary private content.

APP-SPECIFIC BOUNDARY AND RECOVERY
Start with uploaded audio; live system recording varies by platform. Audio sent to an optional cloud summarizer is not local-only, and speaker recognition accuracy is not guaranteed.

ACCEPTANCE SCENARIO
Use a recording saying 'someone should follow up'; the output must leave the owner unknown, link the quote and preserve the corrected speaker labels after regeneration. Also reopen the app after an interrupted operation, confirm the saved record/export remains inspectable, and document the recovery action. These are implementation acceptance requirements, not a claim that this guide has been tested.

DELIVERY
Deliver a runnable repository with migrations or project-format versioning, a non-sensitive example, environment/permission setup, the exact manual acceptance steps, and a backup/export-and-restore walkthrough. Implement the working slice before optional integrations; list any deferred paid-product capabilities honestly. Do not add capabilities outside the working slice just to resemble the original product.

PROJECT RULES FOR AGENTS.md
Keep the domain invariants above executable at the write boundary. Propose scope changes before adding providers or permissions. Never fabricate source evidence, publish results, identity matches or successful delivery. Preserve user originals and require an explicit confirmation for destructive changes or external publication.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter), copy the prompt or copy or download AGENTS.md

prior art · use these instead of building, if you'd ratherwhisper.cppLocal speech-to-text engine suitable for private transcription.↗
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Bluedot pricing

planmonthlyannual (per mo)what you get
free$0/user$0/user5 meetings total; maximum 1 hour per recording.
basic$18/user$14/userUnlimited audio-only meetings and storage; maximum 1 hour per recording.Paid only for users who record.
pro$25/user$20/userUnlimited audio and video meetings, unlimited duration, storage, and imports.Paid only for users who record.
business$39/user$32/userUnlimited meetings, duration, storage, and imports, plus CRM/ATS connections and SSO/SCIM.Paid only for users who record.
flat rate——Custom workspace-wide package; public numeric limits and price are not stated.Contact sales.

free tier5 meetings total, with each recording capped at 1 hour.

billingmonthly + annual; annual discounts vary by tier

hidden costsEvery workspace is billed separately and added recorder seats are prorated. After cancellation, recordings can be restored for only 1 month before permanent deletion.

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Questions about Bluedot

Can you build your own Bluedot with AI?

Partly. The visible meeting recorder loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. Bluedot earns its keep through capture, integrations, reliability, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.

What does the Bluedot build prompt cover?

The prompt starts with this scope: Import a consented meeting recording, correct transcript speakers, generate a compact summary and manually approve CRM-style follow-up notes. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: cross-call team analytics; meeting-bot auto-join; live multi-speaker accuracy. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.

How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?

Start with the Bluedot prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.

How long will this Bluedot project take?

The catalogue estimate is multi-day for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.

What would I give up by replacing Bluedot?

cross-call team analytics; meeting-bot auto-join; live multi-speaker accuracy; calendar and CRM integrations. Bluedot: Customers pay for automatic capture, dependable speaker handling, search across calls, and notes arriving without manual file wrangling.

What can I use instead of building Bluedot?

The prior-art section lists whisper.cpp as starting points. Review their current scope, license and maintenance before adopting one.

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