Here's the thing I want, and couldn't buy: I hold a key, say "fixed the null check on login and added a test, make that a commit message," and a clean fix(auth): … lands at my cursor. Not a transcript I have to tidy — finished work. And I want it to happen on my own laptop, with nothing leaving the machine.
The tools that nail the "finished work" part today are all built the same way: they send your audio to a server, and several of them quietly screenshot your active window every few seconds so the AI has "context." It's a clever trick and it makes them feel smart. It also means I can't run them on my work laptop, where the code is under NDA and the security policy is very clear about what's allowed to leave the machine. Maybe you're there too — agency work, healthcare, finance, anything regulated, or a company that just takes its source seriously.
The local tools I could run, meanwhile, mostly just transcribe — they hand you raw text and leave the thinking to you. So the gap isn't "another dictation app." It's a tool that does the smart part and keeps everything on your machine.
That's what I'm building. It's called BoloMic — bolo is Hindi for "speak."
The rules I'm building it under:
