An AI assistant engineers don't have to babysit
Engineers lose their deep-work hours to archaeology: hunting the reasoning behind a PR or a decision across Slack, tickets, docs, and old calls. Littlebird pays attention to the active window while you work and transcribes meetings with no bot, so the context behind the code is already collected when you need it back.
Where an engineer's hours actually go
The PR is open and the diff makes no sense without the decision behind it. The decision lives in a thread, the thread references a call, and the call happened three weeks ago. Twenty minutes of digging later you have the context you personally sat through the first time. The work was never hard. Recovering the reasoning around it is what eats the afternoon.
Littlebird already watched that reasoning happen. Because it reads the text of your active window and transcribes your meetings, the design discussion, the review thread, and the standup where scope changed are all in one queryable memory.
What that looks like day to day
Ask Chat why a decision was made and the answer comes from your own history: the call where it was argued, the doc where it landed. Ask it to draft your standup from what you actually did yesterday. Hummingbird opens over whatever you are working in (double-tap Option, currently Mac-only), so a question does not mean losing your place. Meeting Notes covers the calls without a bot appearing in anyone's participant list.
Privacy, the straight answer
Engineers are the audience that checks, so here it is without spin. The app runs on your computer; the memory it builds is encrypted and stored in the AWS cloud (US East). AES-256 at rest and in transit, TLS 1.3 on every connection, SOC 2 certified, and infrastructure regularly audited and tested by third-party security firms. It never trains models on your data and never sells it. No bot joins your meetings.
You control capture: pause context collection, exclude specific apps, delete your data at any time, all of it or just the last hour or day. And the line we will not blur: this is not a local-first product on individual plans. If your threat model requires local-only, use a genuinely local tool, or the self-hosted Enterprise deployment. Details in the privacy article and at trust.littlebird.ai.
Where ChatGPT and Claude fall short
Keep them. Claude is powerful when you give it the right context, and for research, complex reasoning, coding, and math it is the right tool. The difference is who does the giving: general assistants have no context about your work until you paste it in. Littlebird builds that context automatically from your screen and meetings, so the two are complements, not substitutes. We do not claim Littlebird beats either at reasoning, because it does not need to for this job.
Common questions
What exactly does Littlebird read on my screen?
It reads the text and elements of your active window via macOS accessibility permissions. You decide if it runs at startup, and you can pause collection, exclude apps, and delete your data at any time.
Does a bot land in standup or reviews?
No. It listens along on your computer to transcribe and summarize, and no bot joins the call.
What platforms does it run on?
Mac and Windows, plus iOS and Android companion apps. The core product is desktop. Hummingbird is currently Mac-only.
Trace the decision, draft the standup, keep your afternoon.
No setup, no bot in your meetings, and a free Basic plan with full context from day one.
Product facts come from our maintained internal fact base.
