Meeting recorders are stenographers. They capture what was said. Growth Wise is a building inspector — detecting what structurally happened in the coordination layer.
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Meeting recorders transcribe what was said with high fidelity — transcript, summary, action items. Growth Wise detects what structurally happened in the coordination layer: whether a decision was explicitly stated, whether an owner was named, whether dissent was surfaced or suppressed, whether the rationale was captured so the decision can hold when context shifts. A stenographer tells you everything that happened in the room. A building inspector tells you what structural problems are forming. Those are different jobs.
The stenographer/building inspector framing. A stenographer produces an accurate record. A building inspector identifies structural problems — things not visible in the surface record. Meeting recorders do the first job well. Growth Wise does the second job. Not competing. Addressing different problems.
Content vs. structure distinction. A transcript shows what was said. It cannot show whether the room genuinely converged or just stopped arguing. It cannot show whether the concern someone raised was taken seriously or acknowledged and ignored. It cannot show whether five different people left the meeting with five different understandings of what was decided. These structural absences are invisible in the transcript but highly visible in what happens over the two weeks after the meeting.
Meeting recorders measure what happened (activity). Growth Wise measures what structurally failed to happen (absence). Coordination failures are defined by absence: absent explicit statement, absent named owner, absent surfaced dissent, absent captured rationale. You cannot measure absence by capturing presence.
"The question a meeting recorder answers: what was said? The question Growth Wise answers: did this decision structurally close?"
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