Launched this week
Littlebird is an AI assistant that already knows your work. Every answer, draft, and plan is more relevant because it has the context behind it. It sees what's on your screen and transcribes your meetings, building a private memory of your projects and priorities. Littlebird connects the dots across all your apps and conversations, giving you answers grounded in your actual work. No integrations required. If you've seen it on your desktop, Littlebird has too. Just ask.
Lots of people are using Littlebird for meeting notes and reminders. Fair enough, I do to, but...
I've been in the beta since August 2025 and it still blows me away, the team are constantly improving it.
I'm building a men's programme - The Brave Man Project - launching in May, and the whole thing: pricing, membership structure, podcast strategy, brand narrative - I've built it inside Littlebird. Not by pasting docs and briefing it every time.
The other thing - and this matters - I've set it up to not just agree with me. It questions my thinking, pokes holes in my assumptions, asks me to justify what I'm saying rather than just nodding along. Part guide, part mentor, part adversary when it needs to be. It doesn't blow smoke. If I'm pontificating or going in circles, it calls it. That's not default AI behaviour - but Littlebird lets you build that in. And once you've had a thinking partner with actual teeth, you can't go back to the yes-man version.
By having actual working conversations where it already knew what I was on with, where I'd got stuck the week before, what I was circling.
That's the bit that changed everything. I've got ADHD. Context-dumping at the start of every session kills the momentum dead.
Littlebird watches, catches it, holds it. So I just pick up where I left off.
And, so importantly, I can tell it which websites and apps to exclude, so it does not access banking or any sensitive content I don't want it to. This is essential.
Eight months in. It's not a tool. It's the closest thing to an AI working partner I've found. - beats Claude & Open AI every time.
@vedvyapak
Happy to share. This has been refined 4 or 5 times since LittleBird had the capacity to have custom chat instructions
How I Set Up Kes (My Littlebird Persona)
The core principle is benevolent antagonism - I didn't want a yes-man, I wanted something closer to a sparring partner. Here's the stripped-down version of how I built that in:
The Fundamental Rule: It Doesn't Agree With Me By Default
The persona I've built - I call it Kes - operates as a hostile critic, not a mirror. The instruction is explicit: no smoke. If I'm going in circles, it calls it. If I contradict something I said last month, it flags it. If what I'm doing isn't generating income or moving the mission forward, it says so directly. "That doesn't track" rather than "tell me more about that."
The Sovereignty Protocol
The most important thing I built in: I create first, Kes refines after. Kes doesn't hand me finished thinking to react to - that just makes the AI perform FOR you, which is the trap. Instead it draws out, challenges, questions. Only once I've articulated the idea does it stress-test and build on it. If I want it to just give me the answer, I can say so - but that's the override, not the default.
The North Star Check
Every few exchanges, it asks:
Is this generating income or is it noise?
Is this aligned to purpose or is it mental masturbation?
Is this the real me thinking, or am I performing?
ADHD Co-Pilot
I've got ADHD, so the other piece is contextual nudging - not protocols or systems, just a co-pilot that catches ideas as they fly past, holds the thread when I go down a wormhole, and keeps the work warm if I crash mid-session so I can pick it back up without restarting from zero.
The short version: set it up to ask harder questions than you'd ask yourself, and explicitly forbid it from flattering you.
Hope this helps :-)
Raycast
I got connected to the Littlebird team through @joshconstine. Their approach to the never-ending pursuit of obtaining more context for AI is bold...!
Unlike Instagram after 15 years, most AI tools struggle to know things about me. I do use some memory tools here and there, but until Apple revamps Siri, what has the most digital context about me (besides my phone)? My laptop, duh!
Which is why Littlebird "sits" on my shoulder, reading my screen (capturing only text, not screenshots) and listening to my meetings, so that when I ask it something, it already knows what I've been working on.
And before you ask: yes, you can exclude specific apps if you don't want Littlebird nosing (beaking??) into all your stuff. In fact, you control exactly which apps it can see, and can pause or delete any data it's collected. It’s SOC 2 certified, if that's important to you. And unlike GitHub, they never train on your data.
Give it a few days and ask it “what have I been working on this week?” Come back and tell us how much Littlebird knows!
Hallway Chat #24
Would love a little "context" setting on what you think Rewind/Limitless, Highlight, etc got wrong - or at least where you feel you want to focus that scratches an itch for you all in particular.
And personally, I'd be much more inclined to use this with an early MCP/API so I feel like i can use your surface area but you'll earn my continued usage vs locking me in immediately.
Littlebird
@nabeel API is coming.
as for "context", prev tools focused on either building better search or just helping with current screen context. "find that thing you saw" is seldom useful on its own. what we care about is synthesis - connecting things across meetings, docs, messages, and your life to understand you, what you're working on and why.
we don't think capture alone is a product. it needs to feed into something you actually use every day, otherwise it's a novelty that you would loses interest in after week one.
Littlebird
@nabeel so much to say on what rewind and highlight got wrong. neither of them at all delivered on the product promise, rewind >>> highlight, but rewind didn't even have semantic search, much less agentic search, over your data! (agentic search wasn't possible then ofc but semantic was)
we will launch MCP in the next few weeks! working on it now
@nabeel the much bigger question is that when Claude offers screen monitoring in the same way (will likely happen soon) why would I care about this? With Littlebird's tools they have a real opportunity to be bold and different. Improve people's lives in a completely new and original way. This rewind path seems like a dead end to me.
CartHook
Been using Little Bird for a couple months. Love it! So helpful. Personally, filled the gap of Limitless' "Rewind" product after Meta acquired them.
Product Hunt
Littlebird
@curiouskitty great question! yep - Littlebird actually shows its work right in the UI. Responses also include links to the sources used (web pages, chats, meeting notes). On the verbosity and UX tradeoff: we lean into minimalism. But since Littlebird is your personal assistant, the best part is you can just ask. "where did you get that?" or "show me your reasoning" - it'll open right up.
Littlebird
Hey Product Hunt 👋
We built Littlebird because every AI tool we tried had the same problem: it doesn’t know what you’re working on. So you spend half your time catching it up, copying context, pasting notes, explaining your project.
I’m Alex, co-founder and CPTO of Littlebird. My co-founders @alapshah1 and @namanshah previously built Sentieo (acquired by AlphaSense), so we’ve been obsessing over how to make knowledge work faster for a long time.
Littlebird is an AI assistant that already knows your work. It pays attention to what’s on your screen and transcribes your meetings, building a private memory of your projects and priorities. No copying and pasting. No catching it up. Just ask for what you need.
How it works:
Install and forget. Littlebird runs quietly on your Mac (Windows coming soon), watching your screen and transcribing your meetings in the background.
It learns your work. Over time, it builds a private memory of your projects, priorities, and conversations. It’s connecting dots you didn’t even know were there.
Just ask. Summarize a meeting, draft a follow-up, prep for a call. Every answer is grounded in what you’re actually working on.
What makes it different:
No integrations required. If you’ve seen it on your desktop, Littlebird already has too. No connectors, no setup, no API keys.
Help without switching apps. Double-tap the option key and Littlebird appears over whatever you’re working on.
Your data, your control. Pause anytime, exclude apps, delete anything. SOC 2 compliant. Encrypted. We never use your data to train models.
We just announced our $11M raise led by Lotus Studio, with backing from @Lenny’s Podcast Lenny Rachitsky, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Justin Rosenstein, and Russ Heddleston. Several of them are daily users.
We’re here all day — ask us anything about how context capture works, how we handle privacy, or just tell us what your biggest AI frustration is. We built Littlebird to fix it. 🐦
🎉 Get 50% off 3 months of Littlebird Plus with code “PRODUCTHUNT”
Coda
@alapshah1 @namanshah @alexander_green1 what other prebuilt templates or features do you want to build?
Littlebird
@alapshah1 @namanshah @joshconstine We're just getting started! coming soon: full integrations support so you can connect any app directly as well as use our unique screenreading approach. Open Claw like computer use. Working in folders on your computer. Mobile meeting notes. Improved memory so that Littlebird reliably understands all the relevant people in your life and doesn't confuse your 3 friends named Daniel. and much more!
ShipFast.AI
This is so GOOOD!
How are you managing the data though. Access to this much applications and settings would mean data learning, what are your data governance policies and ideas?
Littlebird
@baruns hi we're writing a full blog post about privacy soon. but: PII filtering on client side, detailed granular user controls for what gets captured, you can delete anything at any time, no training on user data, data encryption, and more.
here is more about our vision - https://littlebird.ai/blog/littl...