A Next CoLab product

A private second perspective on how you work.

Heron listens to the conversations you are already in and starts with one thing worth knowing about how you showed up. The summary and the record are there when you need them.

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What a notice looks like

Transcripts tell you what was said. Heron tells you what happened.

Note takers already capture the words, and that is becoming free. Heron opens with the one observation from that conversation you would not have caught yourself.

Heron

That is the third time you have closed with "let me think about it" with Jordan. Each time, he raised it again the following week.

Heron remembers earlier conversations with the same people, so it can see a pattern that neither of you can see from inside it.

Heron

You made the case three times. The second version was the shortest, and it was the one Dana repeated back.

One observation drawn from the whole hour, not a summary of it. The hard part is choosing which one is worth your attention.

Heron

That went better than your last four with Priya. When she pushed back, you let the pause sit instead of filling it.

Measured against your own history with that person, not against a benchmark or an ideal meeting.

Illustrative examples of the form a notice takes, not output from a real conversation.

When you would want it running

The conversations that are already on your calendar.

The one-on-one where you have to say the hard thing, and said it so carefully last time that it never landed.

The pitch you have given four times. It works sometimes, and you do not know which part is doing the work.

The negotiation where it goes quiet and you fill the silence, every time, before you have meant to.

The standing meeting with someone you need on your side, where the same subject keeps coming back unresolved.

What you get

One notice. Then somewhere to go with it.

Notice

The one thing you most need to hear, about you, not the topic. Sometimes a blind spot, sometimes a strength, and when your last Next worked, it tells you first.

Depth

How each relationship is going over time, read by who was in the room. A moment that looks bad on its own can read differently given your history, and when Heron is unsure, it asks. Your answer outranks anything it infers.

One thing to change, with a cue for when. Accept it and it comes back as a brief before your next meeting with those people, and that meeting shows whether you did it.

Summary

The record you come back to, written to replace your other note takers. Decisions and action items are marked agreed, tentative or floated, with owners and dates, and open commitments carry into the next meeting. The only card meant to be shared.

Ask

Ask anything about your meetings, from what was agreed last week to what you owe a colleague, and get a direct answer with each point linked to the moment it came from.

Where this stays

Nobody sees your notices but you.

Heron only works if you can be honest in front of it. That constrains what we are willing to build.

Not your employer. Your notices are not sent to your company, and they are never used to rank, rate or review you.

Not the meeting host. Whoever called the meeting receives nothing, and neither does anyone else in the room, unless you choose to share a summary.

Not a score. Heron measures you against your own history, not against a leaderboard or a model of the ideal employee.

Your recording, your call. You decide which conversations Heron records and confirm who is speaking. You can delete any conversation or ask Heron to forget a person.

Organizations can run Pulse, a separate Next CoLab product with its own deployment and consent. Pulse reports on teams and the organization in aggregate. It does not expose any individual's Heron notices.

Why it is different

Questionnaires describe who you say you are. Heron shows how you actually show up.

A general model can read one transcript and say something sensible about it. That is not the hard part.

The hard part is knowing you. Heron carries your history, your relationships and the arc you are on into every conversation, so the notice it gives you is the one that matters, said in a way that keeps you on your own side.

Underneath it is the Next CoLab behavioral engine, and a context payload that compounds with every conversation you have.

Heron records on your phone, including conversations in person. Past transcripts can be brought in as files; connections to other note takers are coming.

1 noticeper conversation, not a wall of bullets

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260+behavioral measures behind the one you see

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