Plaud

Plaud builds AI-powered note-taking hardware and software that captures, transcribes, and summarizes conversations for professionals. Its product line includes Plaud Note, an AI device for capturing conversations and generating notes and summaries, and the NotePin and NotePin S wearables, which record conversations for transcription and summarization. The company serves more than 1.5 million professionals worldwide and reports a revenue run rate of $250M. It is bootstrapped and profitable, having taken no external funding.

The work spans a set of technical domains: AI note-taking, speech transcription, speaker identification, AI summarization, natural language processing, hardware device design, and data security and privacy compliance. Transcription supports 112 languages. Plaud operates from San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, and Beijing, and is present across professional services, productivity software, consumer electronics, and meetings and voice recording. The company has stated a target of amplifying human intelligence for 50 million professionals by 2030.

Plaud states that it values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity. Team members use AI tools including Cursor, GPT models, Gemini, and Claude to increase efficiency. The company commits to data security standards including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031, and describes its operating philosophy as bootstrapped and profitable. It holds the belief that conversation is a form of intelligence.