Autonomous Chief of Staff for engineering leads and founders. Lives in Telegram and Slack.
Stage
Not given
Startup
Founded
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Based in
CA
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Pricing model
Free
Freemium
Pricing
Free for the desktop app. Barside Plus: US$20 a month or US$200 a year. Paid Spaces: creators set their own pricing through Stripe, with Barside taking 8% (5% for Plus subscribers).
Starter: Free forever. Pro: $9/month. Chief: $35/month. Monthly billing, cancel anytime, no credit card to start.
Key features
Notes with rich formatting including headings, checklists, tables, code and links
Integrated drawing and diagramming with Excalidraw editor
Screen recording that saves directly into notes
Video transcription with timestamps
AI-powered search across all notes and content
Built-in password manager with auto-fill
Video meetings for up to 6 people
Cloud backup with up to 90 days of history for Plus subscribers
Team Spaces with chat, polls and shared notes
AI agents that run on schedule with approval workflow
Text, voice, and photo capture in Slack and Telegram
Whisper-v3 voice transcription with 99.8% accuracy
Three-stage follow-up cadence: morning digest, nudge, and escalation
Bidirectional sync with Obsidian, Notion, and Markdown vaults
Meeting CoS that joins calls and converts notes to tasks
Brain scans across Notion, Obsidian, and Google Sheets
Approval inbox for all proposed vault writes
Brain Health score tracking open loop hygiene and clarity
Deduplication of repeating commitments across threads
What makes it different
Completely free for core features with local-first architecture requiring no account
Replaces 10+ subscription apps in one unified desktop application
AI agents with approval workflow for safe automation
Integrated screen recording and transcription without external tools
Supports multiple operating systems with native desktop integration
Does not train its own AI model on user tasks
Approval-based vault sync prevents silent data overwrites
Barside
Brainy