A client stopped a call mid-sentence and asked, "Wait — who's that bot recording us?" I didn't have a good answer. I was using an AI notetaker that joined every meeting, announced itself to the room, and shipped our audio off to a server I didn't control. It bothered me on two levels. These were sales calls, 1:1s, strategy conversations — and they were leaving my hands the moment they happened. And half the time the bot couldn't even join, or made the call feel like it was being surveilled. Around the same time, on-device AI quietly got good enough. Transcription, speaker separation, and summarization can now all run on a normal laptop — no cloud required. So I built Pandecho: it records, transcribes, and summarizes every meeting locally. No bot joins the call. Nothing leaves your device. And because the work happens on your machine, there's no server bill to pass on — which is why Pandecho is a one-time purchase instead of another monthly subscription. It's simply the notetaker I always wanted: private by default, works even in person, and yours to keep.