Under the hood
On-Device Meeting Transcription and Summary: What Oris Writes
Oris runs on-device meeting transcription and writes a structured summary, decisions callout, and full transcript into your Markdown vault after each call.
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Notes from building Oris.
Build-in-public posts, technical deep-dives, and reflections on making indie software that respects the people who use it.
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- Under the hood
On-device by default, cloud by choice
A precise breakdown of where each Oris processing step runs: transcription stays on your Mac, and summarization is yours to configure.
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Oris tells you when it's thinking
A model warming up used to look exactly like a hang. Now every wait says what it's doing — during setup, mid-recording, and on your longest meetings.
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Oris is now in public beta
Oris transcribes your meetings on-device via WhisperKit and writes the notes as Markdown to your vault; public beta is open at orisnotes.com.
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Your Oris, in numbers
A new card in the app shows how you've used Oris — including the one stat only a two-track recorder can tell you: how much of the conversation was you.
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Oris is in private beta
If you're on the waitlist, you're in first. A local-first Mac app that records both sides of a call and lands clean notes in your Obsidian vault.
- Under the hood
Going Native: A 67MB Binary, On-Device Models, and Cleaner Transcripts
We replaced Oris's ~1.2GB Python stack with a single 67MB native binary. Transcription and summaries both run on-device through Apple's frameworks, your meeting audio still never leaves your Mac, the transcripts came out cleaner — and as a bonus the engine now runs on roughly twelve more macOS versions than before.
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Rewriting Our Engine with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows
We rewrote Oris's transcription and summarization engine from Python to Swift one module at a time — built with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 through Claude Code and dynamic multi-agent workflows, with the old pipeline kept as a byte-for-byte reference and a separate frontier model reviewing every PR. Here is what that actually looked like, including the bug that survived a green test suite, a code review, and an integration test.
- Essays
Bring Your Own Key, Forever
Oris summarizes with a provider you choose, billed to you, on a key you hold. That's a permanent architectural commitment, not a launch promo.
- Under the hood
Capturing Both Sides of a Zoom Call Without a Bot
How a Mac can record both the mic and system audio into one dual-track file without anyone joining your call.
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Why Meeting Transcription Should Stay on Your Mac
The default for every meeting tool is to upload your audio to a server. Oris starts from the other side of that default.
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