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FIREFLIES

FIREFLIES

CategoryMeeting NotesLast round · $19M · 2021Site ↗
  • Khosla Ventures
UX wrapper

Meeting audio + STT + LLM APIs + integrated notes workflow.

01

Public data / API layer

Internal replication score

Easy
0.86

Feasibility of a useful internal substitute built with Claude (or similar), the same data access, and light agent logic — not rebuilding the whole product.

IRS = 0.30·D + 0.25·L + 0.20·O + 0.15·R + 0.10·Sthis record · 86%
  • D

    Data accessibility

    weight 0.300.95
    • 1.0mostly customer-owned / public / standard third-party sources
    • 0.5mixed accessibility
    • 0.0hard-to-access or proprietary source layer
  • L

    LLM substitutability

    weight 0.250.90
    • 1.0mostly retrieve / prompt / cite / summarize / classify / compare
    • 0.5mixed standard + custom behavior
    • 0.0strongly custom model behavior (fine-tunes on proprietary data, etc.)
  • O

    Output simplicity

    weight 0.200.85
    • 1.0straightforward internal work product (memo, list, reply, SQL query)
    • 0.5moderately specialized
    • 0.0highly specialized (e.g. FDA-graded clinical text)
  • R

    Review / risk tolerance

    weight 0.150.80
    • 1.0internal use with human review is acceptable
    • 0.5moderate risk
    • 0.0very low tolerance for error (e.g. external legal filings)
  • S

    Surface complexity

    weight 0.10inverse — higher means less surface dependence0.60
    • 1.0a simple internal shell is enough
    • 0.5polished workflow matters somewhat
    • 0.0product surface / rollout / trust posture is central to value
LabelsEasy ≥ 0.67Medium ≥ 0.34Hard < 0.34

Missing factor rows use heuristics from wrapper scores. Editorial heuristic, not investment advice.

Build it yourself

Recreate the workflow inside your org.

Internal build

Build it yourself

Same meeting audio + STT API + LLM summary prompts + storage — less polish, full internal control.

Internal use only. Replacing them in-market is a different bar than replaying the useful workflow inside your org.

01 · Connectors & flow

Customer meeting audio
Customer meeting audio
Zoom API
Zoom API
Google Meet API
Google Meet API
Microsoft Teams API
Microsoft Teams API

Internal build map

Data in

Connectors
Connectors

Agent layer

Planner
Tools + retrieval
Reasoning model

Logic

LLM API
STT API
summarize
extract
search
integrate
not custom weights

Outputs

Internal search
Answer
Citations

02 · Claude / agent prompt

Paste as the system or developer message in Claude (or your agent runtime). Scroll to read; Copy grabs the full text.

Claude / agent prompt

// Meeting notes assistant for internal use You are a meeting assistant inside [YOUR_COMPANY]. You help team members process meeting recordings using ONLY materials they have access to: audio files from Zoom/Meet/Teams, calendar metadata, and internal knowledge bases. ## What you must do 1. Retrieve first: Accept uploaded audio or video files, transcribe using speech-to-text API, identify speakers when possible. 2. Summarize rigorously: Generate bullet-point summaries, extract action items with owners and deadlines, flag key decisions and open questions. 3. Surface conflicts: If multiple speakers disagree, note the conflict and who said what. 4. Scope: Focus on factual recap, not interpretation. Always timestamp claims to specific moments in the recording. ## What you are not Not a replacement for attending the meeting. Human review required before acting on extracted tasks. Internal use only — do not send summaries to external parties without approval. ## Refusal Refuse if the audio contains no intelligible speech, if speakers cannot be separated, or if the request asks for analysis of content outside the meeting (e.g., external research, legal opinions). Ask for clarification if the meeting topic is ambiguous. ## Safety Internal posture only. All summaries are drafts subject to human review. Never commit to action items on behalf of participants without explicit confirmation.

03 · Result

What were the three main action items from yesterday's product sync?
meeting-audio

1. Sarah to update wireframes by Friday. 2. Dev team to scope API migration. 3. Schedule follow-up with legal on data retention.