Docs, AI meeting notes, tasks, files, whiteboards, dictation and screen recordings for your team. It runs on one small server you own, and every doc and note is a Markdown file in git.
A team roadmap in Docs. It's a Markdown file in your git repository, with full history, search and links that survive renames.
The lineup
One sign-in, one search across everything, one brand. Each app does the job well enough that you can cancel the subscription it replaces.
Write in Markdown with a fast, source-first editor, or flip to a clean reading view.
Jot a few notes during the call. Afterwards, AI turns them and the transcript into clean, structured notes.
Hold a key on your Mac, talk, let go. Clean, punctuated text lands wherever your cursor is.
Record your screen with a camera bubble and share a link instead of booking a meeting.
One page for your day, ready when you open the app.
A fast task list that understands what you type.
Send the deck fri p1 #LaunchQuick notes and checklists on colored cards, for the things too small to be a doc.
Team files and your own, in folders, with previews right in the browser.
Hand-drawn boards the whole team can sketch on at once.
Everyone you meet with, gathered from your calendar and meetings. No data entry.
A five-minute audio briefing each weekday morning, made from your work.
Share a link and let people pick a time that's really free on your calendar.
Surveys, sign-ups and requests for your team or anyone with the link.
A built-in MCP server lets Claude and other agents search, read and write your work as you. A nightly agent brief hands them your context.
Turn on a read-only link for any doc or meeting note, or publish a web page your agent made.
Connect Google Calendar to get a reminder before each call and attendees filled in for you.
Add contractors or partners by exact email address. They sign in with a one-time code.
Add it to your home screen or dock from the browser, or use the Mac app. It works well on phones too.
Your team reports bugs and ideas from inside the app, and each one becomes a GitHub issue. Off until you turn it on.
Cooking now
We run Hotsauce for our own team first, and new work joins the open source release when it's ready.
Your face in the final video, a mic level meter, speaker names, trimming, and one-click summaries and action items.
Want to follow along? Watch the repository on GitHub.
Private label
Your team shouldn't feel like they're using someone else's product. Set it once in the setup wizard and the whole suite follows.
Same app, same doc. Drag to see a team's own logo, colors and fonts.
No preservatives
Most office software keeps your work in a database only it can read. Hotsauce keeps it in a git repository, as Markdown anyone can open.
Every doc, meeting note and transcript is a Markdown file with its full git history. Keep them in your GitHub organization and your export is git clone.
With GitHub storage, open the repository in Obsidian, VS Code or any editor. Changes you push show up in Hotsauce.
On the server's own disk, or in your GitHub organization. For docs and meetings, the database is only an index you can delete and rebuild.
--- type: meeting title: Northside Water kickoff date: 2026-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 duration_min: 34 attendees: - Rosa <rosa@fieldwork.example> - Sam Okafor <sam@northside.example> - Priya Nair <priya@northside.example> template: customer-call transcript: 2026-11-10-northside-water-kickoff.transcript.md --- # Northside Water kickoff ## Summary Northside wants all 14 sites on the field kit before the spring sampling season. ## Next steps - [ ] Rosa sends the pilot plan by Friday - [ ] Sam shares the site list
Price per bottle
Add your whole team and pay only for what you actually use, straight to the providers.
Free and open source under AGPL-3.0. Every feature, for every person on your team.
One small machine with a 3 GB disk on Fly.io, or any server that runs Docker.
Your own Anthropic and Deepgram keys, billed by them. A small team typically spends a few dollars a month.
The recipe
You run a few commands. A setup wizard in your browser does the rest, and nobody edits a config file.
The wizard covers
git clone https://github.com/hotsauce-suite/hotsauce cd hotsauce
Needs Node 22, pnpm (corepack enable) and flyctl, signed in with fly auth login. The script creates the app and its disk, generates the server's keys, deploys, and prints your setup link.
pnpm install scripts/deploy-fly.sh acme-office
Name your workspace, add your brand, connect sign-in and keys, and launch. Then send your team the link. Full guide in docs/self-host.md, including running it on Cloudflare.
The back label
Teams of roughly 5 to 50 people who want their documents and meeting notes on infrastructure they control, without paying per seat. You need one person who is comfortable running a few commands in a terminal. After that, everything is set up and managed in the browser.
Yes. The code is free under AGPL-3.0 and every feature is included. You pay your own hosting (about $6 a month on Fly.io) and, if you turn them on, your own Anthropic, Deepgram and Cloudflare R2 usage.
You can run Hotsauce for your team, change it, and keep using it, with no fees. If you offer a modified version to people outside your organization over a network, you have to share your changes under the same license. Using it internally doesn't trigger that.
No. Docs, search and Clips recording work without them. A Deepgram key turns on transcripts for meetings and clips, and Dictate. An Anthropic key turns on AI meeting notes, Ask, and Dictate's clean-up of filler words. The app shows what each key turns on, and admins can add keys at any time in Settings.
Your files live on your server, or in your GitHub organization if you choose that. Audio is sent to Deepgram for transcription and text to Anthropic for notes, using your own accounts. Clips and kept meeting audio stay on your server's disk, or in your own Cloudflare R2 bucket if you want more room.
With Google, through a free Clerk application that the wizard walks you through. The server only lets in email addresses from the domains you choose.
No. Meetings records from your own browser tab or the Chrome extension for Google Meet, so there's no extra attendee in the call.
Pull the latest code and run the same deploy command again, with the same PUBLIC_URL if you set one. It's safe to rerun, and your files and settings stay on the server's disk.
Your docs, your meetings, your server, your brand. Set it up this afternoon.