Good Tape
Good Tape is an AI-powered transcription and archival tool built for journalists, offering accurate speech-to-text in 100+ languages with EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant data security. Its Explore feature turns a user's entire transcription history into a searchable knowledge layer, surfacing contradictions, supporting statements, and connections across past interviews with source timestamps attached. The platform includes a mobile recorder app with real-time audio monitoring and instant desktop sync.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
- AI Agents
Funding
Raised to date
€600KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Est. $654Kacross 1 round
€600K · Seed
Announced Oct 2026
Disclosed cumulative: $654K
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Journalists conduct hundreds of interviews over time, but transcription tools treat each file in isolation, making it nearly impossible to recall a source's earlier claims, spot contradictions across months of reporting, or find connections between past and present recordings. Valuable insights get buried in archives that nobody reopens, leaving stories untold and reporting less rigorous.
Solution
Good Tape is an AI-powered transcription and archival tool designed specifically for journalistic workflows. It transcribes recordings in 100+ languages with high accuracy and stores everything securely in the EU under GDPR compliance with ISO 27001 certification and zero training on user data. The Explore feature turns the entire transcription archive into a searchable knowledge layer: it maps topics across all tapes, pulls relevant passages from past interviews into the margin while reading a current transcript, and enables natural-language queries that return answers with the source tape and timestamp attached. Every new recording is indexed against the full archive, compounding the value of what was already recorded.
Target Audience
Primary users are journalists and newsrooms, including media organizations like Zetland, who need accurate transcription and the ability to mine their complete interview archives for corroborating evidence, contradictions, and missed story angles. The tool also serves any professional handling sensitive audio who requires secure, compliant transcription.
Features
- AI transcription supporting 100+ languages with speaker labels, including smaller languages and complex audio with fast speakers
- Recorder app for iOS and Android with real-time audio monitoring, auto-save, and instant desktop sync, eliminating the need for secondary recorders
- Explore context layer that indexes the entire back catalog on day one and surfaces topic maps, contradictions, supporting statements, and nuances across archive, project, or single-tape scopes
- Chat interface that answers questions with source tape and timestamp attached, and can take actions like creating a project containing every tape on a given subject
- Inserts relevant passages into the margin while reading a transcript, each labeled with its source, timestamp, and relationship type (contradiction, support, nuance)
- Zero training on user data, EU hosting, and GDPR compliance with ISO 27001 certification for sensitive interview protection