Who we help
GistCite for consultants, coaches and independent professionals
You read, watch and listen for a living, and the output is a brief, a post or a recommendation. GistCite takes the source material in and hands back cited notes and first drafts.
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What you can do with it
Speech to Text
Turn a client's recording into a brief
Upload the call, get the transcript, summarize with action items and quotes, and export the brief.
How Speech to Text does itDocument Extractor
Read a 90-page report in ten minutes
Extract it with page anchors, ask the questions you would ask the author, and cite the page in your answer.
How Document Extractor does itAI Summary, Ask and Create
Write the LinkedIn post from what was actually said
Create From Source drafts the post from the transcript, in your tone and length.
How AI Summary, Ask and Create does itThe tools you will use most
- AI Summary, Ask and Create
Summarize any source into an overview, key points and timestamped chapters; ask questions with citations; create posts, briefs and scripts from it.
- Document Extractor
Extract clean text and LLM-ready Markdown from PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, TXT, EPUB and HTML, with OCR for scans, then export in nine formats.
- Speech to Text
Dictate live in the browser for free, or upload a recording up to 500 MB for a Whisper transcript with word timestamps and SRT export.
- YouTube Transcripts
Paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript with timestamps, in the video's own language or translated, as text or SRT subtitles.
- PDF Editor
Annotate, sign, fill, watermark, merge, split, reorder, rotate, protect and unlock PDFs in the browser, with nothing uploaded for editing.
Worked examples
Independent consultant
From a 120-page annual report to a cited two-page brief
A public annual report PDF becomes page-anchored Markdown, a set of extracted tables, answers with page citations, and an executive brief a client can verify.
Follow the walkthroughIndependent podcaster
From a one-hour podcast episode to a newsletter, captions and three clips
One public episode on YouTube becomes a transcript, a chaptered summary, a newsletter draft, SRT captions and three short clips, all from one upload.
Follow the walkthroughQuestions from this audience
- Is one plan enough for all of this?
- Yes. Pro covers every source type and every AI feature under one monthly quota of 2,000 units.
- Can a client's document be kept confidential?
- Files are processed in memory and never stored; only the extracted text is kept in your history, and you can delete it or the whole account yourself.
Further reading
Try it on your own material
The free plan covers transcripts and document extraction; Pro adds the AI and media tools.