Fluo transcribes your interviews on your Mac, keeps the transcript locked to the recording, and lets you question an entire study at once — with every answer tracing back to the exact second.
Participants avoided search when they expected the result set to be small enough to scan. P3 · 12:04 P7 · 04:52
Click a chip and the recording jumps to that second, with the sentence marked. Nothing is asserted without a source you can hear.
The problem
Eight interviews in, the patterns are obvious and completely unprovable. You remember someone saying the thing that would settle the argument, but not who, and not when. So you scrub through recordings, or you paste transcripts into a chat window and get back a summary that sounds right and cites nothing.
The problem was never the thinking. It's that the evidence and the conclusion live in different places, and keeping them together is manual work that nobody has time for.
01 · Transcript
Every segment carries its timestamp. Playback moves the marker through the text; clicking any line moves the playhead. Mark a passage with ⌘H and it stays findable across the whole project — not as a note about a recording, but as a position inside it.
02 · Analysis
Pull several sessions into one analysis and question them together. Which participants contradicted each other on onboarding. Where the same complaint surfaced in different words. The scope is yours to set, and it's visible while you work.
03 · Provenance
Claims come back with citation chips. Click one and you land on the second it came from, in the right session, with the sentence marked. Save an analysis and the sources are saved with it — a finding you can hand to someone who wasn't in the room.
Privacy
Transcription runs on your machine. Interviews with real people — named, identifiable, often talking about their work — are never uploaded to be turned into text. There is no Fluo account, no Fluo server, and no analytics.
Analysis is different, and worth being precise about: to answer questions about a transcript, Fluo sends the relevant text to Anthropic's API using your own key. Audio never goes. You can see what a session costs before you run it, and you can use Fluo for transcription and reading without ever entering a key.
Before you buy
The analysis features connect directly to Anthropic using a key you create and pay for yourself. There is no subscription and no markup — you're billed by Anthropic for what you use, typically a few cents per analysis. Creating a key takes about five minutes. If you'd rather not, Fluo still transcribes, plays back and highlights; the analysis panel simply stays closed.
One-time purchase. No subscription.