Published
July 31, 2026
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An AI assistant for consultants juggling seven clients

Carson Eisner
Growth Engineer

Consultants pay a memory tax on every account: 15 minutes of prep before each call, a Friday afternoon reconstructing billable time, and the constant fear of mixing up who said what. Littlebird watched every client conversation happen, so prep, timesheets, and recall start from the record instead of your memory.

What juggling clients actually costs

The 2pm call is with the client you have not touched since Tuesday. Somewhere in the last three weeks are two calls, a contract revision, and a promise you half-remember making. So you spend 15 minutes re-reading threads to arrive merely competent, and you do that four to seven times a day, once per client. Multiply by every context switch and the prep is a workday per week.

Littlebird did not lose the thread, because it reads your screen and transcribes your meetings as the work happens. Each client's history accumulates without you filing anything.

How it changes prep, billing, and recall

Prep a client call in a couple of minutes: ask Chat what has happened with the client since you last spoke and walk in current. Build Friday timesheets from real activity instead of reconstruction, because the week's calls and work sessions are already captured. And recall every client conversation without the panic search, including the promise you half-remember, which is exactly the thing that erodes trust when it slips.

Here is a working marketer's version of the same experience, quoted with permission:

"When you're multitasking in a meeting, things get lost. Littlebird keeps track of everything I need to do (and everything I've done), so nothing gets missed."
Michelle Dailey, VP Marketing, Checksum

No bot joins your client calls

No, and for client work that detail is load-bearing. Littlebird listens along on your computer to transcribe and summarize, and no bot joins the call, so you never open a delicate client conversation by explaining the recorder in the participant list. Recording-consent norms still apply to you; the difference is what the client sees, which is nothing.

The honest tradeoff

Your client work is confidential, so know the storage model before you adopt anything. The app runs on your computer; the memory is encrypted and stored in the AWS cloud, SOC 2 certified, never used for training and never sold. You can exclude apps, pause capture around privileged material, and delete data at any time. If a client contract requires local-only tooling, respect it: Littlebird's individual plans are cloud-based, and that is a real constraint, not a footnote.

Common questions

Can it keep clients separate?

It builds one private memory of your work and you ask it questions per client, like what a specific client emailed this week. It pays attention to the active window, listens during meetings, and can optionally connect email, calendar, and apps.

Why not just use ChatGPT between calls?

General assistants have no context. You copy and paste to catch them up, which is slow and raises privacy concerns. Littlebird already understands the work behind your request.

What does it cost?

Basic is free. Plus is $17 per month billed annually ($204 per year up front) or $20 per month billed monthly, with a 14-day free trial. Power is $42 per month with an annual subscription, and Pro starts from $100 per month for heavier usage.

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Product facts come from our maintained internal fact base. Customer quote used with approval, attributed verbatim.