An intentional path from spoken moments to faithful transcripts.
BEFORE.Band is a screenless, one-press transcript-delivery bracelet being designed in Switzerland. It is intended to preserve chosen thoughts and consented conversations as clean transcripts an authorized external AI agent can retrieve—without ambient listening or another AI destination.
The product idea
Useful words often occur before someone opens an AI workspace. BEFORE.Band is being built so one deliberate physical action can preserve a thought or consented conversation, transfer it safely and make a faithful transcript available later.
The bracelet is a prototype in development. Recording feedback, offline storage, battery life, transfer reliability and audio quality remain subject to acceptance on registered physical samples.
Where BEFORE.Band stops
BEFORE.Band performs English speech recognition on the iPhone, timestamps and conservative readability cleanup while preserving versions and provenance. V1 does not identify or separate speakers. Its responsibility ends at the clean transcript.
It does not generate summaries, projects, people, tasks, decisions, ideas, memories, recommendations or actions. ChatGPT, Claude or another external agent may interpret a transcript under the user’s instructions after receiving authorized access.
Why capture must be intentional
A physical press creates a boundary that the wearer and nearby people can understand. That boundary reduces unrelated collection and keeps the decision to record separate from every later decision about processing, sharing or acting.
A transcript can contain a request or intention, but those words are source material—not authorization for BEFORE.Band or another system to perform a consequential action.
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