Local, on-device transcription with no bot joining the call is the big draw - a lot of "AI notetakers" are actually just a bot that awkwardly joins as a participant, and Oats skips that entirely. Free and open-source with no subscription wall for the core recording/transcription loop is rare in this category.
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@erkang We also use Astra for smarter model routing! Right now when Ari detects that a task requires more thinking power she'll route it to Astra. We've seen significant improvements in speed and inference from astra over other frontier models.
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@maxheckel Yeah, and we are improving some of our UX with Astra -- I foresee a 3D navigation + 3D brain map coming soon ;)
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Erkang, one of the people behind Ariso. We are building the AI bar raiser for your team, and the operating system that shapes the future of work. 🚀
We built Ari around something I learned slowly across engineering, consulting, leading teams, and now building a company:
The hardest thing about work isn’t the work.
It’s the work around it: keeping decisions from disappearing into a black box, surfacing risks early, staying clear on priorities, following through, and making sure the right people know what changed and what needs attention. As work gets more complex, that coordination layer becomes the work.
Amazon and Uber use "bar raisers" to help maintain and raise the standards across the company. Ari brings that to you, automated into the daily flow of work. It connects projects, meetings, follow-ups, priorities, contacts, strategy, management, reflections, and coaching, then helps your team run the loop:
Track what is happening, including commitments, decisions, tasks, and risks
Report what changed and what needs attention, without endless status chasing
Align people and priorities before work drifts
Measure follow-through and reflect on whether it worked
It's working nonstop behind the scenes. It's got your back.
Here's my personal experience with Ari:
It's not here to replace or to judge. It's here to give you more time and mental space for the work you are uniquely good at, while helping the team take on work that used to feel too costly to coordinate.
We’re early, building in public, and listening closely. Glad to have you here.
Oh btw, my team and I have built and defended the most sophisticated cybersecurity systems before, and we've built that into Ari. And we never use your data to train our model.
We'll be around all day. Ask us anything 🙏
-EZ
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@erkang and @chihan_tung walked me through Ari in the Ariso (short for Aristotle!) workspace and I was impressed.
There's a lot here to get chaotic teams aligned and rowing in the same direction.
The underlying premise is to delegate the work about work to robots — personal Ari-bots — so that the team can focus more on the creative, high-level, high-impact work.
Ari works on each layer of the stack empowering with the individual with a personal chief-of-staff.
Then there's a set of tools for managers with direct reports who need to oversee and coordinate others' work.
And those tools bubble up to org-wide visibility and shared context. It's quite profound once you dig in — and I recommend you do. It's free to start, and then just $1/day after that.
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@erkang @chihan_tung @chrismessina Thanks Chris! So glad you liked it!
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@chrismessina Thank you for taking the time to dig into Ari and describe it so clearly. “Work about work” is exactly the problem we’re trying to take off people’s plates so teams can spend more energy on the work that requires judgment, creativity, and care. 🙂
The personal chief-of-staff layer matters to us, but so does the connective tissue between individuals, managers, and the wider organization. We’re still early, and we’re learning a lot from people who use Ari in the messiness of real work. Really appreciate the thoughtful walkthrough and recommendation!
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@chrismessina btw, here's our manifesto -- because we believe the future of work isn’t about doing more. It’s about individual growth and collective momentum. Check it out:
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One thing I'm curious about is how Ari handles incomplete discussions. Teams rarely make decisions in a perfectly orchestrated meeting.
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@tanjum Ari can join meetings or integrates with any notetaker to keep track of the discussions. There is continuity built-in, so the next time the same group discusses the same topic, that'll tracked too. Ari would capture the discussions, decisions, blockers, actions, etc. accordingly. We actually surface insights such as time spent on incomplete decisions, positive collaboration, status updates across all meetings. Does that answer your question?
@tanjum That is what an assistant is for :) Either asking Ari to follow up specific discussion/topic by providing context or invite Ari into online conference so that she could proactively follow up afterwards.
Sometimes I just ask her to find loose ends for me.
Dangling discussions would be surfaced during a number of places for you: Daily greetings, meeting notes, and meeting prep to inform you.
Some times Ari will prompt button for you to follow up such discussion and you can just follow it up
Can you ask Ari about past decisions and get the context instantly?
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@indigo_carpiniello Yes! We track decisions made as a first party feature. Beyond decisions, we have built out our own best-in-class memory system for our agents using some novel techniques (we will release a paper on it eventually).
The memory system and profile system are the best I've seen in an agent.
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@indigo_carpiniello 100%, that’s one of the core ideas. You can ask Ari about past decisions and get the relevant context from meetings, docs, messages, and follow-ups, so you don’t have to dig through everything yourself.
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I found the following piece particularly useful. In fact, a major part of productivity lies in ensuring that small commitments do not simply slip away unnoticed.
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@angelaaa Yes! With how fast we can go using coding agents I literally cannot keep all the tasks I'm doing in my head. Having ari to back me up is great
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@angelaaa totally! I have my followups automatically created by Ari from emails, chats, meetings, and she monitors them everyday, sends me reminders or auto resolves them if I had completed them. It's like a Trello board that manages itself. One of the magical things for me personally :)
Shawn here, founding engineer at Ariso.
Ari starts as a Slack app because so much of work already happens there: decisions, questions, commitments, feedback, and the small moments that shape how teams work together.
The challenge is that this context is easy to lose. Especially when switching context among tools. Important details get buried in conversations, meetings, documents, and follow-ups. As work becomes faster and more distributed, people are expected to remember and manage more than any one person reasonably can.
We’re building Ari to help bring that context together while treating trust as foundational. Our architecture uses tenant-isolated envelope encryption with HashiCorp Vault, helping protect each customer’s data boundary while supporting the performance needed for real-time work. Checkout how we built the encryption system with HashiCorp: High-performance envelope encryption at Ariso.ai with Vault.
I also believe the future of work will require humans to adapt in a deeper way. As technology takes on more of the operational load, people need to take greater responsibility for direction, judgment, relationships, and care. The goal is not to remove humans from the center of work, but to give them more capacity to lead well.
Ari helps bring that context together for both individual and teams, so people can spend less energy searching, remembering, and coordinating—and more energy leading, thinking, and supporting their teams, less hands on touching different tools, just ask Ari to do it.