Voice to Text for Founders
You're running a company and wearing twelve hats. Every minute spent typing is a minute not spent building, selling, or leading. Blurt lets you capture investor updates, product specs, and team messages at the speed of thought. Hold a button, speak your mind, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in Notion, Slack, Gmail, your pitch deck. No context switching. No typing bottleneck. Just talk and move on to the next fire.
The Typing Problem
Writing investor updates when you should be building
It's the last Friday of the month and you need to send your investor update. You know exactly what happened — the wins, the losses, the metrics. But translating that mental clarity into a polished email takes an hour you don't have. So you keep pushing it to next week, and your investors wonder if you're still alive. The update that should take 10 minutes eats your entire afternoon.
Practicing your pitch with no one to listen
Your demo day is in two weeks and you need to rehearse. But running through your pitch out loud feels awkward, and you never remember what version worked best. You need a way to capture your spoken pitch attempts, review what landed, and refine your narrative. Instead, you wing it and hope the words come out right when it matters most.
Capturing strategy while it's still fresh
You just got off a call that completely changed your product direction. The insights are crystal clear right now, but in 30 minutes they'll be fuzzy. You could type notes, but that takes 15 minutes and you have another call starting. So you tell yourself you'll remember. You won't. That strategic clarity evaporates before you can document it.
Team communication overload across five channels
Your team needs decisions. Slack pings, email threads, Notion comments, Linear tickets — everyone wants a response. Each thoughtful reply takes 3-4 minutes to type, and you have twenty waiting. By the time you've answered half, more have piled up. Your communication backlog grows while your team waits and momentum stalls.
Wearing multiple hats means constant context switching
One hour you're writing product specs, the next you're drafting hiring messages, then investor emails, then customer support replies. Each switch requires different thinking and different writing styles. The cognitive load of shifting between founder roles is exhausting. You need a way to output text as fast as you can think, regardless of which hat you're currently wearing.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere founders live — Notion, Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, pitch decks, anywhere you can place a cursor on macOS.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Talk naturally
Say your update, message, or notes. Blurt handles punctuation and formatting.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Drafting monthly board updates in minutes
It's time for the board update and you're staring at a blank doc. Instead of typing for an hour, hold your hotkey and talk through the month: 'Revenue hit 45K MRR, up 12 percent from last month. Shipped the new onboarding flow, seeing 20 percent improvement in activation. Main challenge is sales cycle length, testing new demo format next week. Hiring update: made an offer to a senior engineer, decision expected Monday.' Five minutes of talking, board update done. Edit lightly and send.
Writing investor emails that actually get sent
An investor asked for a quick update three days ago. You've been meaning to respond but typing a thoughtful email kept falling off the priority list. Now hold your button and speak: 'Thanks for checking in. We closed two enterprise deals this month and are seeing strong signal from the partnership channel. Happy to jump on a call next week if you want the full rundown.' Thirty seconds, email drafted, relationship maintained.
Capturing product specs before the idea fades
You just had a breakthrough about how the feature should work. The architecture is clear in your head right now. Open Notion, hold the button, and brain-dump: 'The integration should sync bidirectionally. When a user updates in our app, push to their CRM within 60 seconds. Pull changes hourly. Handle conflicts by preferring the most recent timestamp. Need to support Salesforce and HubSpot at launch.' Product spec captured in the moment of clarity.
Sending hiring messages that feel personal
You found a perfect candidate on LinkedIn and need to send a compelling outreach message. Instead of typing a generic template, hold your hotkey and speak naturally: 'Hey Sarah, saw your work on the Stripe dashboard redesign. We're building something similar for healthcare and could really use someone who understands complex data visualization. Would love to chat for 15 minutes about what we're building.' Personal, authentic, sent in 20 seconds.
Documenting decisions before you forget why
You just made a big call — kill the feature, change the pricing, pivot the positioning. Your reasoning is clear now but won't be in a month. Open your decision log, hold the button: 'Decided to remove the free tier because conversion was 0.3 percent and support load was killing us. Will grandfather existing free users for 90 days. Revisit if paid conversion doesn't hit 2 percent by Q2.' Future you will thank present you.
Writing the vision doc your team needs
Your team keeps asking where you're headed. They need a vision document but you've been too busy executing to write one. Block 20 minutes, hold your hotkey, and talk through your vision: 'In three years, we're the default way small businesses manage their inventory. We start with restaurants because the pain is acute. We expand to retail once we've nailed the core workflow.' A real vision doc, spoken into existence.
Strategic planning notes after every important call
You just hung up with a potential acquirer, a key customer, or your co-founder. The conversation was dense with implications. Before the next meeting starts, hold your button and dump everything: 'Key takeaway: they're willing to do annual contracts if we add SSO. Their timeline is Q1. Main objection was onboarding complexity. Follow up with case study from Acme Corp.' Strategic intelligence captured, not lost.
Why founders choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or enable in settings |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Accuracy | Handles business terms, names, and numbers well | Often struggles with startup jargon and metrics |
| Reliability | Works consistently every time | Frequently fails silently or requires re-enabling |
| Focus | No popups or mode switches | Dictation UI interrupts your workflow |
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