Pocket

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Pocket is a small wearable device that records real-world conversations and turns them into transcripts, summaries, action items, and mind maps for people who spend their day talking and moving between meetings. It pairs over Bluetooth, has a hardware capture button, and exposes a few details most competitors don't, including the ability to choose the AI model that writes your summaries and a published MCP server that plugs into Claude Code. The launch video pitches it at knowledge workers like litigators and dealmakers who need something catching contradictions, deadlines, and follow-ups while they stay focused on the room. The company is Open Vision Engineering Inc., which builds Pocket under the HeyPocket brand as a screenless, wearable AI-powered voice recorder and personal assistant device , and it is part of Y Combinator's W26 batch. It was founded by Akshay Narisetti, who was a founding member of rival note-taking startup Omi, and Gabriel Dymowski, who previously founded a blockchain-based document management startup. Narisetti, based in San Francisco and a Georgia Tech CS alum, has been shipping open-source AI wearables to a hobbyist community for years, which is the audience the 160,000 devices figure in the launch tweet points back to. This is the formal introduction of the productized version after that long hardware run, positioning Pocket against a growing field of always-on AI recorders. Core functionality, including unlimited recording minutes for life, basic transcription, summarization, and action items, is available without subscription, while advanced capabilities such as AI speaker labels and separation are gated behind a paid tier. For founders and operators tracking AI hardware, the interesting signal here is a team that has already put six-figure device volume into the market before their official YC launch moment.

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