Built for founders

The AI notetaker that actually makes you better on your calls.

Fundraising, sales, discovery, hiring — you were never trained for the calls that decide your startup. Nugget lets you practice before, coaches you live, and grades you after.

Mac & Windows Private beta No bot joins your call
A Nugget live coaching nudge: 'Confirm next steps' — prompting the founder to put a specific date on the calendar before the call ends.
The founder problem

Nobody trained you for half your job.

Customer discovery. Founder-led sales. The investor pitch. The make-or-break hire. These calls decide whether your company makes it — and you're often figuring them out as you go.

The AI notetakers everyone uses just transcribe and summarize after the fact. None of them help you actually do better in the call.

The founder solution

Nugget is the AI notetaker that actually makes you better on your calls.

We studied hundreds of real founder calls to learn exactly where they go sideways.

So Nugget does three things on every call that matters: 1 lets you practice before, 2 coaches you live, and 3 grades you after.

01 Practice mode

Rehearse the call before it counts.

Practice out loud against a lifelike AI persona that talks back with a real voice — a skeptical seed VC, a price-focused buyer, a guarded candidate. It pushes back, so the real call isn't your first rep.

Nugget Practice Mode: a spoken roleplay against a 'Guarded IT director' persona, with a live coaching nudge and a running transcript.
02 Live coaching

A coach on your screen, live.

On the real call, a small pill floats beside your meeting with specific, in-the-moment coaching tuned to the kind of call you're on. No bot joins the call — Nugget captures it locally as you go.

A Nugget live coaching nudge: 'Let them talk' — reminding the founder to hand the floor back.
03 After every call

Your call, written up — and worth reading.

  • A clean transcript of everything that was said.
  • A summary with the takeaways and next steps.
  • A coaching report — what you did well, what to fix, and what to ask next time.
  • Ask anything about the call, live or weeks later.
A Nugget coaching report: a Big Picture headline, then What You Did Well, What To Improve, and Ask Next Time — each grounded in quotes from the call.
The coaching report — grounded in what you actually said.
Coaches

A coach for every call that matters.

You're the researcher, the closer, the recruiter, and the fundraiser — often in the same day. Nugget has an expert for each.

Discovery

Pushes for real, past-tense specifics and flags the leading questions and easy compliments that fool you.

Sales

Keeps you from pitching too early and tracks what a real deal actually needs to move forward.

Fundraising

Listens for a crisp narrative, real traction, and the hard questions investors are about to ask.

Build your own

Describe any call — partner calls, board updates, candidate interviews — and Nugget compiles a live coach and matching report for it.

Not sure which? Nugget can auto-detect the call and fit the right coach for you.

Why it's different

Most AI just agrees with you. Nugget helps you get better.

Skeptical by design

It's built to catch the polite "yes" and the vague answer — even when the call feels like it's going great — so you leave with the truth, not a warm feeling.

Your calls stay yours

Your session data is stored encrypted on your device, and the coaching stays off your screen-share. No bot ever joins the meeting.

Your startup depends on getting this right.

"Understand your users. That's the key."
Paul Graham, Y Combinator
"The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage startups must possess."
Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
"Talk to your users."
Sam Altman, OpenAI

Walk in like you've done this a hundred times.

Nugget is in private beta for Mac and Windows.