Brain dump after every meeting. Goodword files the rest.
You just had a great conversation. You're in the elevator, the Uber, the walk back. In two days the details will be gone: her co-founder's name, the number they mentioned, the intro you offered. Debrief is the two-minute habit that saves them: tell Goodword what happened, in your words, and it does the filing.
How it works
Three ways to debrief:
Text it or send a voice memo. Text Goodword what happened, or send a voice memo from your messages app, and it lands as a debrief (longer messages are treated as debriefs automatically). This is also how you opt into Text with Goodword: save the number, send your first debrief, and texting is on for good.
Type or paste it. In the Goodword web app, brain-dump freeform or paste in notes you already jotted: "Met Sarah Kim at the founder dinner, building healthtech infra, raising in the fall, knows our lead investor. Said I'd send her the ops doc." Unstructured is fine; that's the point.
Take the call. Tap Call me and Goodword's AI phones you. Talk through the meeting like you're telling a colleague: who you met, what was discussed, what stood out. Sixty to ninety seconds, hands free, done before you reach the car.
Use first and last names when you know them. Goodword files what you say to the real people in your contacts, and a full name is what lands it on the right person. "Sarah Kim" files cleanly. "Sarah" alone may need a confirm, and when two people share a first name, the last name is the difference.
What Goodword does with it. One brain-dump becomes separate notes, each filed to the person it's about. Talk through the twenty people you met at an event in a single debrief, and each one gets only the context that concerns them, on their own profile. Every debrief runs the same way:
Notes get filed to each person you mentioned, searchable forever, feeding every future draft and the relationship story. Mention someone not in your network yet? The note attaches automatically once they sync in.
Commitments become reminders. "I said I'd send the deck" is on your list with a due date and, when it fires, a drafted message.
New people get captured and enriched.
You never organize anything. You do the thinking; Goodword does the filing.
What people use it for
Between back-to-back meetings, when typing isn't happening. Walking out of the pitch, tap Call me: "Partner meeting at Fieldstone. Maya led, pushed hard on CAC, wants the cohort data by Friday, mentioned they passed on a competitor for team reasons." Filed to Maya, reminder set for Friday, and six months from now "the fund that asked about CAC" is searchable.
After the trade show, before it all blurs. Ten conversations, four business cards, two real opportunities. One voice debrief from the parking lot covers who wants wholesale pricing, who asked about the new line, and who to just stay friendly with. Every person gets a note and every promise gets a reminder.
Engagement context, captured while it's cheap. After each client session: what shifted, who pushed back, what you owe them. Ninety seconds of talking replaces the Sunday-night writeup, and when a similar situation comes up at another client (or the engagement ends and the CEO calls you back a year later), the context is all there.
Discovery calls into institutional memory. The nuance from a discovery call (real budget signals, the skeptic in the room, the phrase the client kept using) is what wins the proposal, and it's exactly what evaporates. Debrief on the walk back and the whole team's pitch draws from it later.
FAQ
How long does a debrief take? The habit that sticks is 60–120 seconds. Say what mattered; skip what didn't. A rough two-minute debrief you actually do beats the perfect writeup you don't.
Do I have to name people precisely? Reasonably. A first and last name (or a name plus company) lets Goodword file to the right person. It shows you its match so you can confirm.
What does the AI phone call ask me? It guides you gently through who you met, what you discussed, what stood out, and what's next, and follows your lead. It feels like a conversation.
I mentioned someone who isn't in Goodword yet. They're captured from the debrief and enriched in the background. Notes about them attach automatically.
Do I still need debriefs if I use Granola? Granola covers your scheduled video meetings automatically. Debrief covers everything Granola can't see: the coffee, the dinner, the hallway conversation, the phone call, plus your private read on any meeting ("don't think he's the decision maker").
Can I debrief from Claude? Yes. The Goodword MCP includes a debrief tool, so "log this meeting" works in Claude too.
Next: after your next real conversation, tap Call me before you check your email. Once you feel it file everything, the habit sells itself. Then see Your daily Goodword for how each debrief compounds into the daily digest.