Thunder Kitty for Consultants
Client conversations that stay yours
Thunder Kitty lets consultants capture every meeting without exposing client data to third-party services.
Consultants handle sensitive client information across every engagement — strategic plans, financial data, organizational challenges, personnel decisions. Your engagement letters promise confidentiality. Most transcription tools route audio through cloud infrastructure, creating copies of client conversations on servers you don't control, under terms of service your clients never agreed to. Thunder Kitty runs entirely on your Mac. Record client calls, workshops, and strategy sessions knowing that nothing leaves your device — not to our servers, not to anyone's.
The confidentiality gap in cloud transcription
Consultants often work across clients who compete with each other. The strategy discussion you had with Company A on Tuesday shouldn't be anywhere near the infrastructure you're using for Company B on Thursday. When you send a client conversation to a cloud transcription service like Granola or Otter, you're creating a copy of that conversation on shared infrastructure — subject to that vendor's security practices, data retention policies, and breach exposure. A single incident at your transcription provider could surface confidential strategy discussions from multiple engagements simultaneously. Thunder Kitty eliminates that exposure entirely because the audio never leaves your Mac.
What a client engagement looks like with Thunder Kitty
Before the meeting
Create a note for the client and link it to the calendar event. Add agenda items — discovery questions, hypotheses to test, decisions to reach. Your preparation is structured and searchable across every engagement.
During the meeting
Hit record. Transcription runs immediately on your Mac — no internet required, no audio leaving the room. Speaker separation means you know who said what across every stakeholder in the call. You stay focused on the conversation.
After the meeting
Each agenda item gets its own AI summary generated on your Mac. Notes and transcript save as plain Markdown files in a folder you choose — organized per client, searchable across engagements, readable in any app. No platform login required to find what someone said six months ago.
Why consultants use Thunder Kitty
Nothing leaves your device
Audio is processed on your Mac using Apple's on-device speech engine. No cloud upload, no external API, no third-party infrastructure. The confidentiality you promise clients is architectural, not just a policy.
Searchable across every engagement
Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose — one folder per client if you want, or organized however you work. Search across every engagement in Spotlight. Point an AI at the whole archive and ask 'what did the CFO at Company X say about the integration timeline?' No platform login. No export. No vendor to call. The institutional knowledge you build across every engagement is yours to query, forever, in any tool you already use.
No bot joining the call
Thunder Kitty captures audio directly from your Mac — system audio and microphone — with no bot joining the meeting. Nothing for your client to notice, explain, or consent to on the fly.
Real-time agenda tracking
Thunder Kitty tracks which agenda items have been covered as the conversation progresses. If you set out to cover six discovery areas and only touched four, you'll know before the call ends. Post-meeting, each item gets its own AI summary on your Mac.
Works offline, on any network, in any location
Client sites, hotel rooms, conference centers, airplanes — Thunder Kitty works anywhere your Mac works. Transcription runs on-device with no internet required. You're not dependent on the client's WiFi, your phone's hotspot, or any external service. Record in any environment, review anywhere.
How consultants use it
- Transcribing client discovery calls and stakeholder interviews
- Capturing workshop facilitation and strategy sessions
- Recording project check-ins across multiple concurrent engagements
- Searching across engagement history by topic, client, or decision
- Reviewing coaching sessions and advisory calls
Common questions
Does Thunder Kitty require a bot to join my calls?
No. Thunder Kitty captures audio directly from your Mac — your microphone and system audio — the same way QuickTime would. Nothing joins the meeting. The person on the other end gets no notification, no “Thunder Kitty has joined” prompt, nothing.
Does it work with Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, Meet, and other platforms?
Yes. Thunder Kitty isn’t platform-specific — it captures whatever audio is playing on your Mac, regardless of the app. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, FaceTime, phone calls via your iPhone’s Handoff, or no video app at all. If audio is happening on your Mac, Thunder Kitty can record it.
How accurate is the transcription?
Very. Thunder Kitty uses Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer — the same on-device engine powering Apple Intelligence — which delivers professional-grade accuracy for English, running entirely on your Mac. It handles natural speech, crosstalk, and varying audio quality well. Non-English language support depends on what Apple’s engine supports on your system.
What happens to my notes if I cancel my subscription?
Nothing changes. Your notes and transcripts are plain Markdown files sitting in a folder on your Mac. They were yours before you subscribed and they’re yours after you cancel. There’s nothing to export because there’s nothing locked in. You lose the recording and transcription functionality. You keep everything you’ve written and recorded.
Can I search across my entire meeting history?
Yes — in a few different ways. Your notes are plain Markdown files, so macOS Spotlight searches across all of them. You can also open the folder in Obsidian, iA Writer, or any notes app. For more powerful querying, Thunder Kitty runs as a local MCP server for Claude Desktop: ask questions across months of transcripts directly from Claude’s interface, with no data leaving your Mac.
If two of my clients are competitors, could their information cross-contaminate in Thunder Kitty?
No. Your notes and transcripts are plain files on your Mac — not a shared database, not a model trained on your conversations, not anything processed through shared infrastructure. Each file is exactly what was said in that meeting, stored locally, with no connection to any other client’s data. There’s no mechanism for cross-contamination because there’s no shared system.
My client’s NDA prohibits sharing their information with third parties. Does using Thunder Kitty violate that?
Because Thunder Kitty processes everything on your Mac and nothing is transmitted to our servers, we’re not handling your client’s data — at all. Whether that satisfies a specific NDA clause is a question your counsel should answer, but the data-handling model is designed for exactly this concern: no third party ever receives the audio or transcript.
Can I organize notes by client or engagement?
Yes. Thunder Kitty’s notes are files in a folder you control. Create subfolders however you work — by client name, engagement type, date, or anything else. Thunder Kitty can be pointed at any folder on your Mac, and your file structure is yours to design.
Does Thunder Kitty integrate with my CRM or project management tools?
Not directly. Your notes are plain Markdown files — copy and paste into Salesforce, Notion, Asana, or whatever your stack is, or use an AI tool to extract structured information from the transcript. There’s no native CRM connector or Zapier hook. Thunder Kitty is a personal notes tool, not a workflow automation platform.
Can I use Thunder Kitty across multiple client Macs, or just my own?
Your subscription covers your personal devices — as many Macs as you personally use. Point Thunder Kitty at a shared folder (Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive) and your notes stay in sync across every Mac you sign into. Voice enrollments and AI model downloads are device-specific. Everything else syncs automatically via files.
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