Notes on work that goes quiet.

Commitment drift, agentic product management, and building AI tools that do not ship your meetings to somebody else's cloud.

Evidence9 September 20266 min read

We ran a commitment ledger over 15 real meetings. It found four failures the note taker missed.

A commercial note taker marked every action item Pending. Comparing 15 meetings to each other found four commitments that had quietly died.

Analysis9 September 20265 min read

Why your meeting notes structurally cannot catch a dropped commitment

This is not a quality problem with note takers. It is a shape problem. A per-meeting artefact cannot represent something that stopped happening.

Privacy9 September 20265 min read

Local-first AI for product teams, and why your security review keeps saying no

Most AI meeting tools upload your calls to a vendor's cloud. For regulated teams that is where the conversation ends. Here is the local-first alternative.