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Honest writing on recruiter workflow, interview note-taking, privacy, and where AI tooling actually helps vs gets in the way.
Most AI note takers were built for meetings. Recruiters need something narrower: an interview notetaker that does not put a bot in the candidate call or ship audio to a vendor cloud.
Read postOne-party vs two-party consent, GDPR, and what actually keeps you safe when you record a candidate interview. A practical, non-lawyer's guide for recruiters in 2026.
Read postOtter is a fine general notetaker, but recruiters have specific needs: no bot in the candidate call, no cloud holding candidate audio, and notes shaped like a scorecard. Here's how the main alternatives stack up.
Read postCandidates have noticed the bots. Enterprise clients have started asking about them. Here is the bot-free interview note-taking setup that more recruiters are quietly moving to in 2026.
Read postGDPR enforcement on AI tooling tightened materially in 2025. Here is what recruiters actually need to know in 2026 about transcribing candidate interviews, and the local-first setup that avoids most of the questions.
Read postIt is not that Otter and Fireflies got worse. The recruiter use case got more demanding, and the local-first alternative finally got good enough to actually use.
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