“I’ve been in meetings for five years and never truly heard a single one of them.”

Tom Pritskyは週に30以上の会議をこなしています。創業者として、彼はそのどれ一つとして欠かすことはできません。Scribenは、ようやく彼にとって真に機能した初めてのツールです。

Tom Pritsky · Captify 創設者 兼 CEO · スタンフォード大学 '23

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トムは3歳の時から両側性の難聴を抱えています。創業者である彼の仕事は、あらゆる会話を明確に聞き取ることですが、手書きのメモがその最大の障害となっていました。Scribenは、彼が「記録すること」から完全に解放され、その場に集中することを可能にした初めてのツールです。

“I had to choose — until Scriben”

“Before Scriben, I had to make a choice every day that shouldn’t exist: listen properly, or write it down. Either way, I lost something.”

Tom PritskyはCaptifyの創設者兼CEOです。投資家、顧客、チーム、パートナーとの会議は週に30回以上に及び、その一つひとつが会社の方向性を変える可能性を秘めています。

彼は、会話が相手に真に伝わっているかどうかに対して、多くの創業者よりも敏感です。3歳の頃から両側性の難聴を抱えています。スタンフォード大学でバイオメディカル・インフォマティクスの学士・修士号を取得した際、彼は同大学初となる聴覚障害学生のためのサークルを設立しました。会話が本当に届いているかどうかを見極めることは、彼にとって単なる仕事上のスキルではありません。それは、人生における本能なのです。

だからこそ、この5年間、彼は一度も会議を最後までまともに聞いたことがなかったのだ。

“The two seconds I’m looking down writing — that’s when I miss a sentence. And in my meetings, the sentence that actually matters is almost always hiding in those two seconds.”

彼はあらゆることを試した

Voice recorders, AI meeting summarizers, human note-takers, note-taking apps — Tom worked his way through the entire market.

“Every one of them solved half the problem and created the other half. Voice recorders meant two hours of cleanup afterward. The AI tools — the moment you turn one on, people start choosing their words carefully, and the whole energy of the meeting shifts. A human note-taker? I still had to spend 20 minutes after every call reconstructing context with them.”

“I didn’t want more notes. I wanted to take ‘capturing’ out of my head entirely.”

Scribenの実際の機能

トムの現在のワークフローはシンプルです。会議の冒頭でScribenを使用することを全員に伝えて同意を得たら、あとはテーブルの上に置いておくだけで、その存在を忘れて会議に集中できます。

Scribenはバックグラウンドで音声のすべてをキャプチャします。会議が終わった瞬間、投資家の発言、製品へのフィードバック、アクションアイテム、誰が何を言ったかなど、構造化され検索可能なノートがスマートフォンに整理された状態で届きます。

“What used to eat at me was the anxiety: ‘Did I just miss something important?’ Now I know — every word is there. I can go back to anything, anytime. That mental release is worth more than any note-taking workflow.”

“Last week an investor asked me a really specific product question. I answered it and moved on. The next day I went back to that section of the transcript and realized — there was a hook inside his question I hadn’t picked up on. That’s now a key thing we’re preparing for the next round. If I were relying on memory, that moment would’ve been gone forever.”

部屋の雰囲気を損なわないツール

Tom is emphatic that recording any meeting requires everyone in the room knowing and consenting. It’s his rule, and it’s a boundary Scriben designs around.

“I would never record anyone without telling them. Ten seconds at the top of a meeting — ‘Just so you know, I’m using Scriben to take notes’ — and almost everyone says yes. Because deep down, everyone wants what they said to be taken seriously.”

彼が最も高く評価しているのは、Scribenが部屋の中でどのように調和しているかという点です。

“Put a phone or a dedicated recorder on the table and the energy shifts. People get careful. They say less. Scriben doesn’t do that. It just sits there quietly and does its job. It’s present, but it doesn’t intrude.”

現在の彼の会議の様子

Tom estimates he gets back at least 5–7 hours a week — time that used to go into post-meeting cleanup, asking his assistant to clarify what someone said, scrubbing through recordings for one sentence, and the most invisible cost of all: the second round of communication caused by missing something the first time.

But the time isn’t the main thing, he says:

“What changed is the relationship between me and the person across from me. I’m actually looking at their eyes now. Reading their pauses. Responding to what they didn’t say. Investors feel it. Customers feel it. My team feels it.”

“The core belief behind Captify is that every person deserves to be fully heard. Scriben is the tool I use every day to do that for the people I work with.”