Live captions and productivity tool for meetings

Only 53% of deaf people are employed compared to 76% of hearing people — a gap of more than 20 percentage points (National Deaf Center, 2017). Researchers consistently point to communication in the workplace as the primary driver. Of all the workplace barriers studied, meetings are where the access gap is most acute: fast speech, multiple speakers, no protocol for asking someone to repeat, and decisions that land before you have caught up.

A study of deaf and hard of hearing workers found that 70% attributed communication difficulties — particularly in meetings — as contributing to poor employment outcomes (American Annals of the Deaf, 2016). Employers are often aware the problem exists: 62% of concerns raised by employers about workers with hearing loss were specifically communication-related (HLAA). The awareness does not translate into solutions. Less than half of workplaces provide reasonable accommodations.

In a meeting room, the informal rules work against you. People talk over each other. They turn away from you to address someone else. They reference something said two minutes ago that you missed. The chair moves on before you have finished processing what was said. Everyone else absorbs this in real time. For a deaf or hard of hearing person, it requires constant reconstruction — and occasional bluffing.

Captio AI is built to close that gap in the room where it matters most. Captions appear word by word as each person speaks, so you follow the meeting as it happens — not catching up after. Every speaker, every decision, every action item. In real time.