About Canary
Why this exists
Every meeting tool optimizes for what happens after the call — a tidy email summary, an action-items list, a searchable archive. Useful, but it doesn't help you in the moment when your manager asks "what do you think?" and you've spent the last six minutes half-listening because Slack pinged.
Canary is the opposite. It runs while you're in the meeting and shows you a live, zoomable matrix of what's being said — short to long, "right now" all the way back to "the whole call." If you check out for a minute, you can check back in without asking anyone to repeat themselves.
That's the entire product idea. The rest is execution.
Who's building it
Canary is built by Marcus Graves — that's it for now. I'm the engineer, the designer, the support inbox, and the person you're emailing when you reply to marcus@askcanary.com. If something is broken or feels wrong, tell me. It's a short feedback loop.
What's next
- V1 — Desktop app. macOS, Windows, and Linux. Real-time transcription, the resolution-matrix widget, system tray controls, calendar auto-detection. Shipping now.
- V2 — iOS. Phone-on-desk capture for in-person meetings where you can't bring a laptop. Same resolution matrix on the smaller screen.
- V3 — Smart glasses. Heads-up summaries delivered through Meta Ray-Bans or whatever the leading platform is by then. Glanceable in-meeting context without ever looking at a screen.