Shadow 2.0 - The work your meetings create, done before they end
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Every online call creates a to-do list. Shadow clears it live.
It understands your conversation, tracks what needs to happen, and executes tasks in real time. PDF creation, slide generation, CRM updates, follow-ups, and scheduling before the call ends. Our goal is to have no post-call work.
Just stay focused while Shadow handles everything in the background.
Starting with core workflows and expanding to everything your calls create.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋
Shadow is a real-time AI on the call that completes your post-call to-dos while you're still on the call
The problem: A user told us something we couldn't ignore:
We did the maths. 5 calls a day. 20 minutes of post-call admin. 5 days a week. That's 8+ hours — one full working day — lost to busywork, every week.
The solution: Shadow was already on the call. It already had the context. So we asked: what if it just handled the to-dos before you hung up?
While you're still talking, Shadow detects action items in real time and executes them. Today, that means:
📝 Notion doc creation: notes and summaries written as you speak
📅 Follow-up meeting scheduling: booked before you hang up
📧 Draft email: written automatically based on what was discussed
Coming soon: Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Google Sheets, PostHog, GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. This is just the start.
What's new in Shadow 2.0: We've moved from a browser app to a native desktop app.
Shadow now:-
Auto-detects your meetings the moment they start, no manual setup
No bot joins your call, invisible to everyone else. It just works.
Who is it for? If you live on calls, sales, consulting, recruiting, ops, Shadow was built for you. Anyone who goes over back to back calls.
One question, If you could automate one thing that happens after every call, what would it be?
Drop it below, it might be the next thing Shadow handles.
Shubham
Co-Founder, Shadow
shadowlabs.ai
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@shubham16180 Shubham said it perfectly.
We’re building Shadow because post-call work shouldn’t wait until after the call - the context is already there while the conversation is happening.
Today it handles emails, Notion docs, and scheduling in real time. The bigger vision is to let people leave calls with the actual work already done.
Shadow
@shubham16180 One of the problems every industry, every professional role relates to.
As a dev, I hate updating tickets, creating tickets, Productivity tracking platforms had become counter-productive for me.
@shubham16180 Many congrats Shubham, Hersh and team! :)
How I met the makers?
I first came across Shadow through the @Velo team and the moment they walked me through what they’re building, my first thought was: “Wait… was this made for me?”
What is Shadow?
Shadow is a real-time AI agent that sits on your calls and turns conversations directly into done tasks (notes, follow-ups, docs, and next steps) before the meeting even ends.
As someone running a high-demand consulting business, I spend ~7 hours a day on calls and spoke with 1,300+ founders last year. After every call, I usually spend another 15–30 minutes processing notes, sending follow-up emails, and organizing next steps.
Why I endorse it?
A tool like Shadow doesn’t just sound useful, it feels like getting a full working day back every week.
I’ve also had the chance to work closely with the team on feedback ahead of launch, and they’ve been incredibly fast, agile and obsessed with getting better.
That combination of a sharp product and a hungry, execution-focused team is exactly why I’m excited to endorse both Shadow and the ambitious makers building it! :)
Shadow
@rohanrecommends This genuinely means a lot, Rohan. Thank you.
The "was this made for me?" moment is exactly what we've been building towards. We started Shadow because a user told us she felt like a robot running endlessly between calls. That stayed with us.
7 hours a day on calls, you feel this more than most. The fact that it resonates with someone who's lived this problem at that scale means we're on the right track.
Really grateful for your trust, your feedback, and for being part of this journey. This is just the beginning.
Shadow
@shubham16180 @rohanrecommends this means a lot - especially coming from someone who lives on calls and has felt the follow-up pain firsthand.
Your feedback before launch genuinely helped us sharpen what Shadow should do: not just record or summarize meetings, but actually turn the conversation into completed work before the call ends.
Curious - from all your calls with founders, what’s the one post-call task you think wastes the most time: follow-up emails, notes, scheduling, or sharing docs?
Velo
Shadow
@sourav_sanyal Absolutely! It is hooked to any work that comes your way and lives to get it off your plate. More than agent, we aim to make a personal ai for you. One with personality and one who knows you! Would de
Shadow
@sourav_sanyal Yes! Shadow listens during the call, understands action items, and can complete things like emails, Notion docs, follow-ups, or calendar scheduling in real time.
The key difference is that it doesn’t just “auto-do everything” silently — the user stays in control and acknowledges actions before Shadow completes them.
Curious, what would be the first thing you’d want an agent to handle for you during a call?
Shadow
@sourav_sanyal Imagine a product that offers you time.
And I'm sure you can't put a price on that. ... :P
Shadow
Hey Product Hunt 👋
We’re excited to launch Shadow today.
We started building Shadow because we kept seeing the same problem again and again: meetings don’t really end when the call ends.
You finish the conversation, but the actual work is still waiting for you:
writing follow-ups,
updating tools,
creating notes,
sharing docs,
assigning next steps, and
trying to remember everything that was promised.
Most AI meeting tools help capture what happened. That’s useful, but we felt the bigger opportunity was not just capturing action items, but helping complete them while the conversation is still happening.
That’s what Shadow is built for.
Shadow listens during the call, understands the context, and helps complete meeting actions in real time - so by the time the call ends, the follow-ups, updates, and next steps are already moving.
We’re still early, but we strongly believe meetings should lead to finished work, not more work after the meeting.
Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and questions.
Shadow
@mayank_gupta40 Mayank is the AI (Anant Intelligence) behind our AI orchestration
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Hi Product Hunt,
Built Shadow because the real cost of a meeting isn't the meeting, it's the hour of follow-ups afterward. Shadow sits in your calls and handles the action items for you: emails sent, docs updated, tasks created. You just review and approve. Excited to share it with PH!
Shadow
@priyansh_agrawal2 Priyansh has been deep in building the actual “review and approve” layer - because the goal was never to let AI blindly do things on your behalf.
Shadow should handle the busywork, but you stay in control before anything gets sent, created, or scheduled.
This one feels personal. I have struggled with the pile of follow-ups after almost every call, and it’s honestly the most draining part of meetings for me. Love how clearly you have defined the problem and the direction to solve it. Really excited to see how this evolves.
Shadow
@nikhagarg this means a lot - that pile of follow-ups after every call is exactly the pain we kept hearing again and again.
We’re trying to make the call itself the place where the work gets completed, not just captured for later.
Curious - what’s usually the most draining follow-up for you: writing emails, creating docs, updating tasks, or scheduling next steps?
@mayank_gupta40 For me it’s honestly the context switching more than anything else. Writing follow-up emails, updating tasks take time, but the real drain is jumping between tools and trying to piece together what was discussed. If that part gets smoother, everything else feels much easier.
Shadow
@nikhagarg worry no more, Shadow is here !
Start planning for what you'll do with the immense free time coming your way.
Velo
This is actually super relatable 😅 every call quietly turns into a mini to-do list.
Love the idea of handling things during the call instead of after. Curious how well it picks up on action items in meetings with larger groups (>10 people)
Shadow
@ajaykumar1018 Hey Ajay, really glad it resonates!
Great question, larger group calls are something we're actively working towards. Right now Shadow works best in smaller focused calls, but scaling it up is on the roadmap. Would love to keep you in the loop as we get there!
Shadow
@ajaykumar1018 exactly — that “mini to-do list after every call” pain is what pushed us to build this.
For larger groups, we’re focusing on picking up clear ownership, decisions, and next steps without turning every discussion point into noise.
Curious - in your experience, do action items get missed more in large internal meetings or customer calls with multiple stakeholders?
Shadow
@ajaykumar1018 Hi Ajay, glad to hear you resonate
Shadow
This sounds incredibly exciting, a strong, well-thought-out solution to a genuinely frustrating problem. It’s amazing to think how seamlessly tasks could get done in no time, without needing constant hands-on effort.
Shadow
@trisha_khandelwal Our team shares the excitement of the possibilities this product opens up! Feel free to share any particular use case you have in mind.
Shadow
@trisha_khandelwal AI taking over our jobs... jobs we didnt care about anyway :P
Shadow
@trisha_khandelwal Exactly - the goal is to reduce the constant hands-on effort after every call without taking control away from the user.
Shadow should quietly prepare the work in real time, and you just review/approve what needs to happen.
Curious - which task do you think people would want automated first: follow-up emails, docs, scheduling, or task creation?
Shadow
I'm the dev, AMA
Shadow
@priyansh_agrawal2 Hahaaha
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Hello Product Hunt 👋
I'm Hersh, founding member at Shadow leading GTM. Wanted to share what we've learned building this.
The pattern:
Over the last six months, I've spoken with hundreds of founders, freelancers, consultants, recruiters, and operators. Different roles, different industries. They all said some version of the same thing.
"The actual call isn't what's killing me. It's everything that comes after."
The follow-up email. The invoice. The doc share. The CRM update. The Notion recap. The next-step Slack message.
A 30-minute call creates 90 minutes of work.
Why this matters now:
We've spent a decade adding tools to capture more of what happens in our calls. Notetakers record it. Notion stores it. Slack notifies the team. Every one of those tools makes you do more after the call ends. Not less.
We started Shadow with one question. What if the work just got done while the call was still happening?
What we built:
Shadow runs on your call, understands what's being asked for, and executes the work in real time.
Someone asks for the doc. The link is in their inbox before they finish the question. Someone asks for the latest numbers. The data is on screen mid-conversation. Someone asks for a follow-up. It's scheduled before you hang up.
By the time you say goodbye, the to-do list is already done.
Who it's for:
Anyone whose day is shaped by meetings. Founders, freelancers, consultants, recruiters, ops leaders, sales teams. If you finish your day with a stack of admin that came from your calls, Shadow is for you.
A question:
If you could automate one thing that happens after every call this week, what would it be? Genuinely curious. The answers might shape what we ship next.
Hersh
Founding GTM
shadowlabs.ai
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@hersh_singh Hersh has been closest to the people we’re building this for, and this pattern kept coming up again and again: the call is not the hard part, the work after the call is.
That’s why we’re building Shadow as a real-time layer that doesn’t just capture context, but helps complete the work while the context is still fresh.
Velo
Shadow
@jpinkman not yet, but it’s coming soon.
We’re starting with the most common meeting actions first — emails, docs, follow-ups, and calendar scheduling - but Figma updates on the fly is exactly the kind of workflow we want Shadow to handle next.
Curious, what Figma action would you want it to do during a call - update copy, create a quick wireframe, or make design tweaks?
Shadow
@jpinkman Give ideas on your own risk... They may get implemented and launched