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What is Daisy Cloud?

Daisy Cloud is an optional way to run Daisy's AI features without setting up your own API key. Daisy manages the keys and the provider connection for you, so you can get summaries and ask questions about a meeting without touching a provider console.

It's for people who are comfortable with a cloud service doing the AI step and who'd rather not wire up their own keys. If you already run a local model or bring your own key, you don't need Daisy Cloud at all — those paths still work exactly as before.

Limited public release. Daisy Cloud is offered free of charge for a limited period while we trial it. There are no warranties of any kind for this service during that period — it may change, pause, or end. Your local features never depend on it.

What stays on your machine

The local parts of Daisy don't change when you use Daisy Cloud:

  • Recording — on your machine.
  • Transcription — the finished transcript is produced on your machine.
  • Speaker labels (diarization) — always on-device.

What Daisy Cloud handles

Only the language-model step is routed through Daisy Cloud:

  • Transcript cleanup
  • Summaries (TL;DR, action items, decisions, chapters, coaching, goals)
  • AI questions about a meeting ("ask about this meeting")

For these, Daisy sends the text it needs (the transcript or the slice a feature uses) to a cloud model — under API keys that Daisy owns and manages. Your audio is never sent.

What we do and don't keep

  • We do not store your conversations. Daisy Cloud does not keep or retain your transcripts, prompts, questions, or the model's answers. There is no conversation history held on our side.
  • Traffic is simply proxied. A Daisy Cloud request is passed straight through to the upstream cloud model provider and the response is handed back to your app. Daisy is a pass-through, not a store.
  • Your license key travels with each request for eligibility — it tells the service that your license is entitled to use Daisy Cloud. That's all it's used for.

How to use it

In the app, pick Daisy Cloud as your AI provider in settings (where you'd otherwise paste an API key). Eligibility is tied to your license. If your license isn't entitled, the app will let you know rather than failing silently.

If you'd rather keep everything local or use your own key instead, see What "local-first" means and Getting an API key.