Data sovereignty that is a fact, not a setting
JesRecap records and transcribes on the workstation itself. Meeting content never needs the network, which makes "where is our data processed" a question with a one-word answer.
The public-sector objection to cloud notetakers
Usually it is not the transcription quality. It is jurisdiction, procurement and the audit trail.
Foreign cloud processing
Citizen and staff conversations processed on infrastructure in another jurisdiction raise transfer questions that can take longer to resolve than the project itself. JesRecap does not process meeting audio off the device, so there is no transfer to assess.
Bots in official meetings
An unaccountable extra participant in a council session, a case conference or a supplier negotiation is a governance problem before it is a technical one. Nothing joins your meeting.
Subscriptions and renewal risk
Per-seat monthly pricing means an annual renewal, a budget line that grows, and a dependency on a vendor staying in business. A one-time license is a purchase, not a relationship you have to keep funding.
How JesRecap fits public-sector work
Works offline between checks
The speech model is downloaded once from models.jesrecap.com. After that, recording and transcription run with no network connection. A paid license needs a successful license check at least every 30 days, so plan periodic connectivity.
No foreign processing
Meeting audio, transcripts and metadata are written to the local disk as WAV files and a SQLite database. Nothing is sent to us, and there is no cloud region to choose because there is no cloud step.
Two tracks, retained
Microphone and system audio are captured separately and mixed only for playback. Because both originals are kept, a meeting can be transcribed again later, which is useful when a record is queried long after the fact.
Open formats for records management
Markdown, plain text, JSON, SRT/VTT captions and WAV audio. Everything you produce can be filed into your existing records system without a connector, an API key or a vendor-specific archive format.
Procurement-friendly licensing
From €34.95 once, per person. No accounts to provision, no seats to reconcile, no auto-renewal. Volume and departmental licensing is available on request through the enterprise page.
Small attack surface
No accounts, no telemetry, no integrations, no calendar access, and no cookies on this website. JesRecap's network calls are the model download, license activation and periodic license checks, and update checks.
What stays local
All meeting content: the two audio tracks, the mixed playback file, the transcript, speaker names, notes and the library metadata. Speech recognition runs on the workstation's own CPU or GPU using a local speech model. The only traffic is the one-time model download, license activation and periodic license checks, and update checks. Models can be pre-seeded from a staging machine; each deployed device activates its license and then needs a successful check at least every 30 days.
No external AI service is involved at any point. Meeting actions copy a prompt plus the transcript to the clipboard for use in whatever AI service your organisation has itself approved: an explicit human step, never an automatic upload. JesRecap does not generate summaries itself.
Stated precisely
JesRecap holds no public-sector accreditation and we do not claim one. It is not FedRAMP authorised, not on a government cloud framework, and not certified against any national security standard. There is no cloud service to accredit, and desktop software cannot certify your process for you.
Because processing is on-device, JesRecap is designed to support your compliance process where cloud transcription is hard to approve: no third-party processor for meeting content, no cross-border transfer, and no vendor-held retention. The classification of a recording, its retention period, disk encryption, endpoint hardening and access control all stay under your control, which is the point.
Record with consent
Announce recording to participants and follow the recording, minute-taking and freedom of information rules that apply to your body. Local capture changes where the data goes, not what you owe the people in the room.
Questions
Can it run on a machine with no internet access?
For up to 30 days at a time. Once the speech model is downloaded and the license activated, recording and transcription need no network. A paid license needs a successful license check at least every 30 days to keep recording, so a permanently disconnected machine is not supported. The trial needs a connection to start.
Is any meeting content processed abroad?
No meeting content is processed anywhere except the device. There is no cloud transcription step, so there is no region to configure and no transfer to document.
How does licensing work for a department?
Licenses are one-time, by device count: €34.95 for 1 device, €49.95 for 2, €74.95 for 4, and €99.95 for 8, with no subscription. For volume or departmental licensing, contact us via the enterprise page, where pricing is quoted rather than published.
Does anything join our meetings?
No. JesRecap records the audio the workstation already plays, using Core Audio process taps on macOS or WASAPI loopback on Windows, so the participant list is unchanged.
What about Linux?
Not today. JesRecap runs on macOS 14.2+ and Windows 10/11. There is no Linux build yet.
Related use cases
Same architecture, different room. Or see all industries.
Sovereignty by construction
macOS 14.2+ and Windows 10/11, with local processing that works offline between license checks. From €34.95 once, no subscription, with a full 48-hour free trial.