FAQ

How much does processing cost?

Roughly $1.25 per 3-hour meeting, dominated by Whisper transcription (billed per audio minute) with a small Claude cost for notes. Shorter meetings cost proportionally less. You pay OpenAI and Anthropic directly through your own API keys — Ogma itself has no fees.

Where does my audio go?

• Recording stays on your machine, always.
• Processing sends audio to the OpenAI Whisper API and the resulting transcript text to the Anthropic API, under your own accounts and their respective API data-usage policies.
• Sync (optional) sends the notes and transcript to your Notion workspace.

If you configure no keys, nothing leaves your machine — you just get raw recordings.

Why cloud APIs instead of local AI?

A deliberate v1 choice: cloud processing behaves identically on a desktop and (eventually) a phone, needs no multi-gigabyte model downloads, and delivers better transcription quality today. The providers sit behind internal interfaces so a local backend can slot in later.

Which platforms are supported?

Windows today. macOS is next, then iOS — the mobile version depends on validating reliable background recording under Tauri 2.

Ogma crashed during a meeting — did I lose it?

At most about 5 minutes. Audio is written to disk continuously in 5-minute segments; relaunch the app and it recovers the interrupted recording automatically. See Recording meetings.

Transcription or notes failed — what do I do?

Open the meeting and hit retry. Every pipeline step is idempotent: completed stages are never redone or re-billed, and the pipeline resumes from whatever is missing. Common causes are an invalid/underfunded API key or a network drop.

Can I use a different Claude or Whisper model?

Yes — both model names are configurable in Settings (defaults: whisper-1 and claude-sonnet-5).

Are my API keys safe?

They're stored in the OS keychain (Windows Credential Manager / macOS Keychain), not in a plaintext file, whenever a native keystore is available. See Configuration.

My meetings are not in English — will it work?

Yes. Whisper auto-detects language, and you can set an explicit language hint in Settings for better accuracy. Notes come out in the language Claude sees in the transcript.