In development · built in the open
A private copilot for conversations where you're outgunned.
At the car dealer, with a contractor, in a negotiation or a tense meeting, SideCue listens and keeps one screen up to date. It shows what to say next, what the other person actually meant, whether a claim holds up, and who is dominating the conversation. You glance at it; you never have to touch it.
So far
Goal: the car for ≤ $22,500 out the door
Asking $24,500
You offered $21,000
“Best price” + $1,900 fee
Open questions
Trade-in value not discussed
Say next
“I'm only discussing the out-the-door price.”
Check
✗ “The fee is mandatory”
Dealer fees are usually negotiable
In plain English
He won't lower the price and is adding $1,900, so the real price just went up.
Him 68% · You 32% · he interrupted you 4×
Slow down. Pause before you answer.
Stays on your Mac
Speech is transcribed on the device by open models running on Apple's Neural Engine. Audio never leaves your computer. A “just me” mode transcribes only your own voice.
Knows your notes
Fact checks look in your own notes first, then the web. Every conversation becomes part of a personal knowledge base, so the second visit to the same dealer starts where the first one ended.
Coaches as you speak
Pace, filler words, talk balance and interruptions are measured live, with one short instruction at a time: slow down, hold your ground, don't fill the silence.
Roadmap
- Transcription core. Live English speech from your mic and from calls, plus a test bench that replays real recordings and scores accuracy and delay.
- Agents. Say-next, plain-English rewrites, recap, fact checks and behaviour tips from a language model you choose.
- The Mac app and dashboard. The glanceable screen above, built from swappable widgets and templates for meetings, speaking practice and car buying.
- Conversation memory. Every session broken into topics, people, facts and decisions you can search and reuse.
- Who is speaking, and privacy. Telling you apart from everyone else in the room, echo removal, and a “just me” mode that fails safe.
- Russian and Spanish. Two extra languages, after English is solid.
Later: smart-glasses display, a voice-following teleprompter, and modes for doctor visits and advisors.
How it's being built
An autonomous coding factory runs on a 16 GB M1 MacBook Pro, the smallest Mac SideCue will support. Opus plans the work, a self-hosted Qwen model writes most of the code, and Sonnet reviews every change before it merges. Every 30 minutes the factory writes up what it did in the build log, including what failed.