Pro AI feature
Story Mode.
A recap that reads like someone was paying attention — characters, decisions, the moments that mattered, and what to do next.
Bullet-point summaries are the wrong shape.
Most "AI summaries" produce a flat bulleted list — five things that were said, in roughly the order they were said. The shape is convenient for the model and useless for the human.
What you actually want, two days after a meeting, is the story of the meeting. Who showed up. What was on the table. Where it got tense. What changed someone's mind. What the room agreed to do. Bullet lists don't reproduce that. Story Mode does.
What a Story Mode recap contains
Setting
Two sentences. Where you were, who was there, why this conversation happened. Drawn from calendar context + the recording's first minute.
The arc
A short narrative — three to five paragraphs — describing how the conversation moved from open to resolved. The model picks the moments that changed the trajectory: a question that re-framed the issue, a concession, a piece of new information.
Direct quotes
Three to five quotes, each ≤ 15 words, attributed by speaker, anchored to a timestamp you can tap to play. The quotes are chosen for memorability — the line that hung in the air, not the line that summarized the slide.
What changed
What the room agreed to that wasn't agreed to before. New decisions, new dates, new ownership, new constraints.
What's still open
The threads that didn't close. The things someone said "we'll come back to" and didn't. The follow-up questions you should bring to the next meeting.
Action items
Pulled from Promise Tracker. Owner, deadline, source quote, status.
When Story Mode is the right shape
Story Mode is the recap you'd hand a colleague who missed the meeting and needs to walk into the next one informed. It's the recap you'd send to a stakeholder who only cares about the outcome. It's the recap you'd want yourself, three weeks from now, when the call has faded.
It is not the right shape for every recording. A 30-second voice memo to yourself doesn't need a "setting" paragraph. A weekly standup with seven action items is better served by a compressed bullet view. Bonfiyah lets you toggle between Story Mode, Bullet Summary, and Full Transcript on every recording — pick the shape that matches how you'll use it.
Sharing
Story Mode recaps share as Markdown, PDF, or rich-text email. The default share-text format is designed to read naturally in iMessage and Slack — short paragraphs, no jargon, attributed quotes. The audio file is not included by default; if you want to include it, the share sheet lets you attach the original recording, link to a Bonfiyah-hosted audio share (Pro AI), or embed the timestamped quote audio inline (Pro AI).
See a Story Mode recap in the wild
We'll send a real (anonymized) Story Mode output from a 35-minute sales conversation, alongside the transcript and the three other summary modes for comparison.
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