Frequently asked questions

lintil is a private knowledge companion for architecture practices. It captures what's decided, discussed, and agreed across your projects, whether in meetings, on site or between calls, and builds a searchable record over time.

Most practices lose knowledge constantly. A key decision gets made in a meeting but never written down properly. Someone leaves and takes context with them. A new starter spends weeks piecing together what's already been resolved. lintil exists to stop that happening.

Architecture practices of any size. Whether you're a five-person studio or a fifty-person office, the underlying problem is the same: projects run for years, involve a lot of people, and generate a lot of decisions, most of which live in someone's head, an email chain, or a folder nobody can find.

lintil is designed specifically for the way architecture works. It understands RIBA stages, project roles, and the kinds of decisions practices need to record and retrieve.

lintil captures meetings, voice notes, and decisions, and attaches them to a specific project.

In a meeting, it records the audio, transcribes it, and proposes decisions, actions, and a summary for you to review and confirm. Nothing becomes part of the record without your sign-off.

Between meetings, you can record a quick voice note, such as a thought on site or a call with a consultant, and it gets attached to the right project the same way.

What it does not capture: emails, drawings, or documents. At this stage, lintil focuses on the spoken and decided layer of a project: the things most likely to disappear if nobody writes them down.

Meeting minutes capture what was discussed. lintil captures what was decided, and keeps that record compounding across the life of a project.

The difference matters. A set of minutes is a document you have to read. A decision log in lintil is searchable, attributed, timestamped, and linked to the meeting it came from. You can ask what you decided about the cladding and get an answer, with a citation.

Minutes also require someone to write them. lintil produces a draft from the recording and asks you to confirm, amend, or skip each item. The human stays in control. The admin work disappears.

Those tools store what you put in them. lintil builds a record as a byproduct of work you're already doing.

A shared folder is only as useful as the last person who filed something correctly. A Notion workspace requires someone to maintain it. Teams has the conversation but not the structure. None of them know what was decided, who decided it, or why.

lintil doesn't replace where you store documents. It fills the gap those tools leave: the spoken layer of a project (the meetings, the calls, the voice notes) turned into a structured, searchable record without anyone having to do the filing.

No. AI proposes; you confirm.

After a meeting, lintil presents proposed decisions and actions for review. You confirm each one, amend it, or discard it. Nothing is logged as a permanent record until a person has looked at it and agreed it belongs there.

This matters for architecture specifically. Decisions carry weight. lintil is not making judgements about what's important. It's doing the drafting so you can do the deciding faster.

When someone new joins, they can search the project record and read what's been decided, discussed, and agreed, without needing to ask someone who was there. The context is already there.

When someone leaves, the knowledge they held doesn't leave with them. Their contributions (the decisions they confirmed, the meetings they attended, the actions they owned) stay in the record.

The longer a practice uses lintil, the more this compounds. A project that's been running for two years has two years of structured decisions behind it. Anyone who picks it up can get up to speed quickly, accurately, and without relying on whoever's still around to remember.

Yes. Your practice's data is stored in complete isolation, not in a shared database but in a dedicated environment for your practice alone. No other practice can access it, and it is not used to train any AI model.

All data is held on EU-based infrastructure. Audio is deleted after transcription. The AI processing that produces drafts is governed by a zero data retention agreement: your content is processed and discarded, not stored by the model provider.

GDPR compliance is a firm requirement for lintil, not an afterthought. Full detail on data handling is available on request.