The problem
Talking is faster than typing, but raw dictation is messy — filler words, run-on sentences, half-finished thoughts. Paste that straight into an AI tool and you get a messy answer back.
What we built
Cue, a menubar app for Mac. Hold a hotkey and talk; transcription runs on-device, and then Cue doesn't just drop in the raw text — it restructures your spoken prompt using prompt-engineering techniques and hands you a few versions to choose from: cleaned, polished, a concise prompt, or a fully structured one. Pick one, tweak it if it needs it, and it drops straight into whatever field your cursor is in — Claude, ChatGPT, your editor, a Slack message.
Transcription is on-device; the formatting step runs on Anthropic's or OpenAI's API, with your own key kept in the Mac Keychain.
We built it because we prompt AI all day, every day. Better inputs mean better outputs, and typing a careful prompt every time is slower than talking and letting the app do the first pass of structuring. Same rule as everything we build: the model drafts, you decide.
Status
Cue is in beta at cuespeech.com and launching soon. We use it daily for our own AI work — the same APIs we lean on in client automations, pointed at our own workflow first.