Soham Mitra

Windows builds are unsigned and macOS builds ad-hoc signed, not notarized, so both operating systems warn the app cannot be verified. For a tool asking to be trusted with confidential meetings, that first-run warning does real damage. Covers an Apple Developer membership, a Windows certificate with the hardware token now required, and the signing pipeline. Until funded, every release publishes a SHA-256 per file and a GitHub build attestation. USD 1,200 of the USD 10,000 floor.

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Built in India, the project still cannot claim Indian-language support: Whisper is weak on Indic speech and code-mixing, and nobody has measured how weak. Open-weight Indic models exist and the app already supports bringing your own, so this is measurement, not architecture. Funds recording and licensing real multi-speaker meeting audio with consent and fair payment to speakers, compute to score models, and publishing every result. USD 8,800 of the USD 10,000 floor.

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The full programme, itemised. Engineering time USD 44,000: a year of focused work on what a teardown against three rival products showed matters most, being native-format audio capture, on-device diarization, encryption at rest and Indic models. Device lab USD 18,000. Indian-language corpus USD 18,000. Independent audit of the no-egress claim, published in full, USD 8,000. Cross-platform CI USD 7,000. Accessibility USD 5,000. Any subset can be funded.

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Keeping the recorder working across Windows and macOS updates, audio-device changes and model releases, answering issues, and keeping the dependency set pinned, audited and reflected in the published SBOM. Any amount. The ask in this manifest is a range: a USD 10,000 floor (the two one-time plans above) to a USD 100,000 ceiling (the full programme).

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