Oris Roadmap

The roadmap for Oris is now public at orisnotes.com/roadmap.

The page has two sections. What has recently shipped and what’s coming next.

Oris’s core promise is that your audio stays on your Mac. Transcription runs on-device using your Apple Neural Engine. Summarization also runs on-device by default, no key required and no network call. If you want a cloud model for summaries, you bring your own key to your own provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Ollama). Your audio never leaves your Mac in either case; if you’ve opted into a cloud provider, only the transcript text goes to that provider, billed directly to your account.

The public roadmap operates on the same logic. Here is what’s built. Here is what’s coming. Visible to anyone.

Why it matters

Meeting recordings are sensitive in a way most app data isn’t. Calls contain personnel decisions, deal terms, strategy conversations, things said in confidence. The bar for trusting a tool that captures all of that is higher than the bar for trusting a to-do list app. Local-first architecture is one answer to that bar — your audio doesn’t go somewhere you can’t inspect. The public roadmap lets you see where this tool is going before you commit to using it.

The privacy model is a technical guarantee you can verify. The roadmap is a directional signal you have to calibrate but both come from the same principle - build openly, with the people using the tool.

Direction, not a delivery schedule

“Shipped” means shipped — you can use those things today. “Coming next” reflects what’s actively being built or queued, in rough priority order. No dates appear on the page. Dates in early-stage software tend to become liabilities; I’d rather show the order of work than pretend I know when each thing ships. If priorities shift, the page shifts with them.

What the page gives early users is a read on momentum and direction. Oris is in public beta. The core loop (record a meeting, get a structured Markdown note in your vault, keep your audio local by default) is stable and shipped. But that’s just the beginning.

One thing not live yet

Feature voting is something I’m planning to add, a way for you to flag which items matter most so the prioritization reflects actual user needs rather than just my best guess. That’s not live yet. For now, the roadmap is a read-only window into the build.

Go look at orisnotes.com/roadmap. If something on the list is important to you, or something important is missing, you can reach me at [email protected].