Punkto encodes the Lean Coffee format — invented in Seattle in 2009 — into a real-time collaborative tool. Below is exactly what happens, minute by minute, when you run a session.
Lean Coffee is a 20-year-old format used by agile teams worldwide. Punkto turns it into software — same rhythm, less paperwork.
One click. Share the link or a 6-digit code. No accounts needed for participants.
Topics are added live. The group votes — priorities surface in seconds.
Top topic gets a 5-minute timer. The fair-turn queue gives quiet voices the floor.
AI writes the summary. Action items get owners and dates. Sent by email, never trains a model.
Invented in Seattle in 2009 by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith. Punkto is the format, encoded — for distributed teams, on a screen, with a timer that actually rings.
Whoever shows up brings what matters. Less prep, less politics.
30 seconds of dot-voting. The group's priorities surface — not the loudest voice's.
5 min by default. When it rings, a Roman vote: extend or move on.
The speaking queue rotates. Quiet voices get the floor.
Punkto records your session host-side, transcribes it privately, then writes a structured AI summary — decisions, action items, owners, and a searchable transcript. No live captions to distract anyone, no human note-taker.
Self-hosted in the EU. Up to 25 participants, every browser, no install.
EU-hosted speech AI in FR / EN / DE / ES and 30+ more. Audio is transcribed and discarded.
A European LLM writes a structured recap: decisions, actions with owners and due dates.
Replace the Miro chaos. Topics get votes, decisions get owners, the summary lands in Slack before standup.
Confidential agenda. EU-hosted. Signed DPA on Enterprise. Audio is not kept in the account.
Public link, no signup, voting from a phone. Run a meetup with 30 people.
No. Only the host (facilitator) needs a Punkto account. Participants join by clicking the share link or entering a 6-digit code, with just a display name.
No. Punkto records audio only, and only when the host explicitly clicks "Start recording". The file is stored temporarily on the EU server, sent to Mistral in France, then deleted once the transcript is saved, or within 24 hours if transcription fails. The account keeps the text, not the audio.
Not as a layer on those calls. New sessions use Direct Video, hosted by Punkto. Meet, Teams, and Zoom inside the product are marked soon. The board can stay open next to any call.
Account deletion cascades to all sessions, transcripts, summaries and action items. Backups are purged within a defined window. A deletion attestation is provided on request.
In the European Union, on EU-incorporated infrastructure. Not subject to the US CLOUD Act, FISA 702, or other US extraterritorial laws.
Lean Coffee works best for regular sync meetings (weekly stand-ups, retros, alignment). It is a bad fit for meetings with a single predefined deliverable. Read our practical guide.
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