Voice to Text for COOs
You spend your days moving between operational reviews, team syncs, and strategic planning sessions. Every meeting generates insights that need documenting. Every decision needs communicating across functions. Blurt lets you capture those thoughts instantly. Hold a button, speak your process notes or team update, release. Text appears in Slack, Notion, Google Docs, or wherever your cursor sits. No typing. No waiting. Your operational insights get documented while they're still fresh, and your teams get direction the moment you think it.
The Typing Problem
Cross-functional coordination across too many channels
You just finished back-to-back meetings with Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success. Each team needs different context about the same initiative. You have fifteen minutes before your next call to update three Slack channels, send two emails, and add notes to Notion. Your fingers hover over the keyboard but the cognitive load of switching between audiences is exhausting. By the time you finish one message, you've forgotten the nuance you wanted to share with the next team.
Process documentation that never gets done
You know exactly how this process should work. You've explained it in meetings a dozen times. But writing it down? That takes an hour of focused typing you don't have. The documentation stays in your head while your team keeps asking the same questions. Every month you promise yourself you'll document the operational playbook. Every month the urgent drowns the important.
Executive communications that require precision
The CEO needs an operational update for the board. Finance needs context on the quarterly numbers. HR needs your input on the org restructure. Each message requires careful word choice and clear thinking. You know what to say, but typing it out while context-switching between dashboards and spreadsheets fragments your thoughts. The messages come out choppy, missing the nuance you intended.
Operational reviews that generate insights but no records
You just spent an hour reviewing dashboards, identifying bottlenecks, and spotting opportunities. The insights are clear in your mind right now. But you have another meeting in five minutes. By tomorrow, you'll remember you had important observations but the specifics will be gone. The operational intelligence you generated disappears because there's no time to type it out.
Scaling yourself across a growing organization
When the company was 50 people, you could talk to everyone directly. Now at 200, you need to communicate through written updates, documented processes, and async messages. The organization needs more of your thinking in written form, but your calendar is fuller than ever. You're becoming a bottleneck because your insights stay locked in your head instead of flowing to the people who need them.
How It Works
Blurt works in every app COOs use daily. Slack, Notion, Google Docs, email, your operational dashboards. Anywhere you can place a cursor.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak your thoughts
Say your operational update, process step, or team message. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor instantly. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Capturing insights during operational reviews
You're reviewing the weekly metrics dashboard and spot a pattern: Customer Success tickets spike every Monday because of weekend onboarding. Instead of making a mental note you'll forget, hold the button and say 'Weekend onboarding creates Monday CS backlog. Consider shifting onboarding calls to Thursday-Friday to give customers time to implement before they hit issues. Follow up with CS lead and Sales on timing.' The insight is captured in ten seconds. Action items documented. Your operational intelligence survives beyond the moment.
Documenting processes while explaining them
A team lead asks you how to handle escalations. Instead of typing a long message, you hold the button and explain it out loud: 'For customer escalations, first confirm the issue in the support ticket. Then check their contract tier in Salesforce. Tier 1 customers get same-day response. Loop in the account manager before any technical troubleshooting. Document resolution in the ticket and tag it for the weekly review.' You just created process documentation in 30 seconds while helping someone. That explanation now exists in writing.
Sending team alignment messages across functions
The Q2 priorities just shifted and three teams need to know. Hold the button and speak: 'Team update on Q2 priorities. We're shifting focus to enterprise onboarding. This means Customer Success should prioritize the top 20 accounts, Engineering should deprioritize the SMB dashboard, and Sales should update their pipeline weighting. We'll discuss details in Thursday's all-hands.' One message, spoken in 15 seconds, keeps three teams aligned. No thirty-minute email drafting session.
Contributing to board materials efficiently
The CEO needs your operational section for the board deck. You have context scattered across dashboards and your memory. Hold the button and narrate: 'Operational efficiency improved 12% this quarter, driven by the new ticket routing system reducing average resolution time from 4 hours to 2.5 hours. Key risk is the upcoming migration which will temporarily increase support volume. Mitigation plan includes contractor support and delayed feature releases in weeks 3 and 4.' Board-ready content in under a minute.
Managing vendor communications quickly
Three vendors are waiting on decisions and your inbox is overflowing. Hold the button for each response: 'Thanks for the proposal. We're moving forward with Option B but need the implementation timeline shortened to 6 weeks. Please confirm feasibility by Thursday.' Then the next: 'We've decided to pause the evaluation. Will revisit in Q3 when our integration requirements are clearer.' Vendor management that used to eat an hour now takes five minutes.
Sending strategic initiative updates
The company-wide initiative you're leading needs a progress update. Hold the button: 'Project Atlas update week 6. Milestone 2 complete, on track for milestone 3 next Friday. Blockers: waiting on legal review of vendor contract, expected by Wednesday. Risks: Engineering capacity tight due to production incident response. Team is performing well, special recognition to the implementation squad for the weekend push.' Stakeholders stay informed without you spending 20 minutes crafting an email.
Providing performance feedback in the moment
You just observed something a director did well and want to document it for their review. Instead of forgetting, hold the button: 'Note for Sarah's Q2 review. In today's cross-functional meeting, she effectively de-escalated tension between Engineering and Sales by reframing the conflict around shared goals. This is the leadership behavior we need more of at her level.' The feedback is captured when it's specific and fresh, not reconstructed months later from vague memories.
Why COOs choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-tap function key |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across sessions | Often fails silently or stops listening |
| Business terminology | Handles operational and business terms well | Struggles with acronyms and company-specific language |
| Cross-app consistency | Same experience in every application | Behavior varies between apps |
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