Linguist · General · Legal · Healthcare · macOS and Linux

A Professional-Grade
Voice Powered Assistant.

Record, capture, draft — and stay the author. Whisper transcribes on your own computer; Claude translates and drafts on your own key, and nothing of yours passes through our servers, whichever key you use. One app, four modes: Linguist for live transcription and translation, General for documents, Legal and Healthcare for the professions that need their own safeguards.

$ keisenvpa start
✓ Audio capture initialized — level meter live
✓ Whisper model loaded on this machine
✓ Screenshot capture ready
✓ Claude connected under your own key
✓ Mode: Linguist · ready for speech, image, or text...

It Drafts. You Sign.

The professional is the author. The software is a powerful tool pointed at goals a human defined, and the judgment in that aiming is the whole craft. KeisenVPA drafts; you read, you correct, you sign. It never signs for you, and it never files, sends or types anything into another system without your say-so.

It meets your material wherever it lives — dictation, screenshots of any screen, a scratchpad that stays on top (on macOS, over fullscreen apps too), the clipboard — and hands the result back through the one channel every system already supports. That is deliberate: capture pushed to the boundary of the practical, so KeisenVPA keeps working when a vendor changes an API or charges you for access to your own data.

Local first. Audio never leaves your computer. What goes to Claude goes as text (and the images, PDFs and other files you attach), straight from your machine to Anthropic, and none of your content passes through our servers — with your own key, and with a Healthcare key provisioned by Keisen, which is designed to run under Business Associate Agreements (Keisen is not yet provisioning practices under a BAA); the agreements page shows that chain. It began as a physician's tool for the hospital; the clinical essay behind it is on the Healthcare page.

One App. The Mode Decides What You See.

Pick a mode in Settings. It sets the wording, the panels and the templates: each mode shows only its own template packages. Linguist has a bundled set for learning a language; the bundled clinical templates appear only in Healthcare mode; General and Legal have no bundled templates yet, only the packages you write or import there. Healthcare keeps every clinical safeguard; the other modes leave the clinical panels out. The data flow is the same in all of them: audio stays on your computer, text goes straight to Claude under the key in your Settings — your own, or in Healthcare the per-practice key Keisen provisions.

Status today: all four modes are in 5.0.0. Existing clinical installs stay in Healthcare until switched; Linguist is the default for new installs. General has no bundled templates or Save Document yet; Legal gives client and matter wording on the General rules.

Privacy. Speed. Honesty. Your Own Words.

The same engine in every mode, built for professionals whose documents carry their name.

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On-Device Transcription

OpenAI Whisper runs on your own machine, Mac or Linux. Your audio never leaves your device.

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Live Transcription & Translation

Listen to speech in one language and read it in two — as it is spoken on the Apple M4 Max we measured, behind the speaker on a CPU-only laptop (hardware). Word links, vocabulary with grammar labels, speaker labels, listen-again. Linguist mode →

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AI Drafting on Your Own Key

Claude drafts the document from your input and your template. Text and the images, PDFs and other files you attach, never audio, under your own Anthropic key — straight from your machine to Anthropic. (A Healthcare key provisioned by Keisen takes the same direct route, under Business Associate Agreements once they are signed; read the chain.)

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Multimodal Input

Capture information your way: voice recordings, screenshots, images, pasted text, or what you copy to the clipboard. All inputs work together in one tab.

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Custom Templates

A full in-app editor for your own templates. Fork a bundled one, version it, and import, export and share .kpkg packages with your team.

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Capture That Never Fails Silently

A level meter proves the microphone is live before a word is recorded, and a NO SOUND banner interrupts a recording that is capturing silence — you find out while it happens, not afterwards. A scratchpad stays on top while you work (on macOS, over fullscreen apps too).

Three Simple Steps

From raw input to finished document in minutes.

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Capture

Record audio, take a screenshot, or paste text. Use whatever input method fits your workflow.

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Transcribe

Whisper AI runs locally on your computer. Audio never leaves your device.

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Generate

Claude transforms your input into structured documents using your templates.

Get Up and Running

Comprehensive guides for installation, configuration, and customization.

Get KeisenVPA

KeisenVPA is delivered directly today; there is no public download yet. Healthcare practices are to be set up under a signed HIPAA Business Associate Agreement with individually provisioned access; Keisen is not yet provisioning practices under a BAA (the template is a draft under legal review). Everyone else is provisioned directly and works on their own Anthropic API key. Say which mode and which platform you need.

Platforms: macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 and later) and Linux (x86_64), built from the same source. The Linux build is a tar.gz or AppImage made on Ubuntu/Debian and delivered on request. Neither build is code-signed or notarized: a release is the file and its SHA-256 checksum, published in the installation guide, and macOS asks you to allow the app once (Privacy & Security → Open Anyway). Whisper Services are a separate install step on both platforms. Linux is a commitment, not an afterthought: your tools should run on hardware you control. Windows and Intel Macs are not supported.

What's inside

Live Translation — Listen to a podcast, a lecture or a conversation in one language and read it in two — as it is spoken on the Apple M4 Max we measured, behind the speaker on a CPU-only laptop (hardware). Transcribed on your computer, translated by Claude on your key, saved on your own disk. Word links, vocabulary with grammar labels and Anki export, speaker labels, listen-again, a Work offline switch. The heart of Linguist mode. In 5.0.0 on macOS; on Linux it runs from source, and the packaged Linux build does not include it yet.

Floating Scratchpad — A notepad that stays on top of everything on macOS, fullscreen apps included, where ordinary windows disappear. On Linux it asks the desktop to keep it on top; Wayland desktops, Ubuntu's default among them, may not honor that. Keep your working list floating over the screen you are reading, and check items off as you go. Big, adjustable text; one-click Copy All; an opacity slider. Toggle it with ⌘⇧N. Everything you type is saved automatically, locally, and restored the next time you open the pad.

Recording You Can Trust — The microphone is proven live before recording starts, a level meter shows what is being captured, and a NO SOUND banner interrupts a recording of silence while it happens. Recordings are named at save time and never overwritten.

Custom Template Packages — Create, edit, import, and export .kpkg template packages directly in the app. Build templates for your workflow and share them with colleagues.

One License, All Keisen Apps — A single license unlocks every Keisen app on the same machine, with a shared trial. Existing activations migrate automatically.

In Healthcare Mode — H&P, progress notes and discharge summaries that close with a teaching point, writer-aware templates, patient tabs with an identity check before a note is saved, and any EHR through screenshots and the scratchpad. Healthcare mode →

macOS (Apple Silicon)

5.0.2 • M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs • on request

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Linux (x86_64)

tar.gz or AppImage • built from the same source • on request

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Simple, Transparent Pricing

Start with a 14-day free trial on your own Anthropic API key. No credit card required.

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Free Trial

$0 for 14 days

  • Every bundled template for 14 days
  • Uses your own Anthropic API key
  • Anthropic bills usage at its own rates
  • Saving your own templates needs a license
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KeisenVPA Professional

Professional

Pricing announced with the Professional release

  • Unlimited usage
  • Your own Anthropic API key — no BAA
  • All bundled templates and the editor
  • Priority email support
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BAA per Practice (planned)
KeisenVPA Healthcare

Healthcare

$399

  • Unlimited usage, all modes
  • Business Associate Agreement with your practice, once available (Keisen is not yet provisioning practices under a BAA); a per-practice API key on Keisen's Anthropic organization (covered by Keisen's own BAA with Anthropic, executed August 15, 2026), or your own key under your own BAA
  • Patient tabs, identity check before a note is saved, clinical templates
  • Fees and term set in your onboarding agreement; no automatic renewal
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Like a true professional, premium tools should pay for themselves. KeisenVPA was designed to do just that. The creator of this application strongly believes that finances should never be a barrier to people's ability to benefit from this tool. If you can't afford KeisenVPA, email keisenvpa@proton.me with how you're using it, and I'll gift you a license.