Explainer
Recording in-person sales meetings with SAGARIS
Putting a phone on the table is the easy part. The consent step is asked before capture, not after, and the recording stops on its own at four hours.
How to record an in-person sales meeting
SAGARIS records an in-person sales meeting in three steps: you tap record, the app asks for consent before the microphone opens, and capture begins once you confirm that everyone present has agreed. If anyone declines, the session is discarded and no audio is kept. A session runs up to four hours.
The three rules behind that answer
- Consent is asked before capture, not after. No audio exists while you are still asking.
- The prompt comes from a consent policy in which the strictest rule that applies wins, and an unknown location counts as the strictest case.
- Capture stops on its own at four hours in the recorder. There is no setting that extends it.
SAGARIS enforces the consent step. It does not tell you whether you are allowed to record a given meeting, and this page deliberately publishes no list of which places require everyone to agree.
Consent as a workflow, not a disclaimer
Nothing records while you are asking
The microphone is not opened, and no audio exists, until you confirm that everyone present has agreed.
If they say no, the session is discarded
No audio is kept, no partial file exists, and nothing about the refusal is written to the contact record.
Two people, two jurisdictions, one rule
SAGARIS does not detect where anyone in the room is. The prompt comes from a policy that treats an unknown location as the strictest case.
We describe our software, not the law. Whether you may record a given conversation is a question for your own counsel.
What happens to the recording
It stops on its own after four hours
Capture stops at four hours in the recorder, and the timer shows that limit from the first second.
The audio and the record travel separately
Metadata is saved first. The audio uploads from the browser after you stop, and is transcribed on our servers only once that upload is stored.
Whether it says who spoke depends on the engine, not the vendor
Segments are speaker-attributed only when the resolving engine diarizes; otherwise the transcript is flat.
The session is discarded and no audio is kept. Capture never began, so there is no partial audio to delete and no draft note left behind. The meeting goes ahead unrecorded, and nothing about the refusal is written to the contact record.
No. Pressing record moves the session to a consent step and stops there. The microphone is not opened until you confirm that everyone present has agreed, so the request for permission is never itself captured.
The consent prompt is chosen by a policy that treats an unknown location as the strictest case. SAGARIS does not detect where the people in the room are. Whether a recording satisfies your obligations is a question for your counsel, not for us.
Only when the transcription engine that resolves for that recording performs diarization. When it does, segments are speaker-attributed; when it does not, the transcript is flat. We say which one you got rather than claiming it universally.
Yes. Capture stops automatically at four hours in the recorder, whether or not anyone remembers to end the session.
No. Capture runs in the browser using the standard microphone and recording APIs, so the meeting is recorded from the device already in front of you. There is no bot to invite, which is the usual awkwardness when a tool designed for video calls is pointed at a table.
Bring the meeting you would record first.
We walk through the consent step on your own phone, from the tap to the confirm.
How we handle personal dataWhat this connects to
- Compared with GongHow the two handle recording.
- Call coachingCoaching on calls the dialer records with consent.
- Trust and securityThe certification position and how access is controlled.
- Conversation intelligenceCalls scored on a published six-weight rubric.
- Sales enablementBattlecards on calls where recording and live transcription are permitted.
- Sales incentivesA points ledger with streaks and SPIFFs.
- AI note taker accuracyWhat a note taker gets right and wrong.