Your first session, from upload to cited answer.
Citesvue turns recordings and documents into answers you can check: every claim carries the quote, the speaker, the second, and the frame it came from. This is the whole first run - about fifteen minutes with a recording you already have.
What Citesvue is, in one paragraph.
You give it recorded work - meetings, UAT sessions, demos, sales calls - and documents. It indexes the speech, the screen, and the pages together, then answers questions and extracts findings that cite their source. A bug comes out with the frame where the error was visible; a decision comes out with the sentence that made it and who said it.
Nothing below requires a payment method. Where a step needs a paid plan (the meeting assistant, pushing to Jira), the step says so.
Seven steps to your first cited answer.
Steps 1 to 6 work on the free plan. Step 7 needs a paid plan.
- STEP 01
Create your workspace
Sign up free with your email and a password. Your account is a workspace: recordings, documents, findings, and teammates all live in it. No card is needed on the free plan.
- STEP 02
Bring in your first session
Two ways in. Upload a recording you already have (drag the file onto the dashboard), or paste a meeting link on a paid plan and the assistant joins the call and records it for you. Uploading works on every plan.
- STEP 03
Let processing run
Citesvue transcribes the audio, analyses what was on screen, builds a moment-by-moment timeline, writes the recap, and extracts findings. You can leave the page; the activity centre and a browser notification tell you when the recording is ready.
- STEP 04
Read the recap, then the evidence
The recording page opens with the Recap: a short summary with key outcomes that jump the player to the moment behind them. Transcript, Deep Dive (what was on screen, scene by scene), and Artifacts tabs hold the full evidence.
- STEP 05
Review the findings
The Artifacts tab lists what was extracted: bugs, requirements, decisions, action items, risks, questions, and insights. Each carries the verbatim quote, the speaker, the second it happened, and the frames that show it. Approve the ones you stand behind.
- STEP 06
Ask your first question
Open Q&A and ask in plain language: "What did the customer say about SSO?" The answer arrives with citations - quote, speaker, timestamp, and a frame when the evidence was on screen. Click a citation to jump to the moment and check it yourself.
- STEP 07
Send a finding where work happens
On a paid plan, connect Jira, Linear, Notion, or Slack from Settings and push an approved finding with its evidence attached. Delivery is queued and tracked; re-pushing a tracker or Notion item updates it in place instead of filing a duplicate, while Slack posts a fresh message each time.
A UAT session, end to end.
- 1. Upload the 40-minute UAT recording from this morning.
- 2. Processing finishes; the recap lists two decisions and five findings, three of them bugs.
- 3. Open the checkout bug. It carries the tester quote ("it charged twice and only showed one confirmation"), the timestamp 14:23, and the frame showing the duplicate pending charge.
- 4. Approve the bug. Ask Q&A: "Which acceptance criteria failed?" - the answer cites the two moments where a criterion was contradicted on screen.
- 5. Push the approved bug to Jira. It lands as a typed Bug with severity, the quote, and a link back to the second it happened.
The developer who picks up that ticket never asks "can you reproduce it?" - the evidence is attached to the claim, not to a 40-minute file.
Three habits for the first week.
- Pick a real recording
A UAT session, a client call, a demo - something where people spoke and something was on screen. The product is at its best when there is evidence worth citing.
- Keep it under your plan limits
The free plan includes 2 processing hours and 50 Evidence Q&A questions per month, with a library of 5 stored recordings - enough to judge the product on your own material.
- Ask questions you know the answer to
The fastest way to build trust in the citations is to ask about a moment you remember and open the evidence. That habit - verify, not believe - is the whole point.
When something does not behave as this guide describes, the troubleshooting guide covers the states you might see and what fixes each one.
Starting out, answered.
- No. The free plan is free forever and needs no card. Paid plans add the meeting assistant, integrations, more processing hours, and longer retention.
- Any meeting, UAT session, demo, or sales call you already have as a video or audio file: MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, MP3, M4A, or WAV. Screen recordings are ideal because the visual evidence becomes citable too.
- It depends on length and content, but the work runs in the background: you can leave the page, keep working, and the activity centre plus a browser notification announce when the recording is ready.
- The free and Pro plans are single-seat. Team plans start at 3 seats and add shared workspaces with roles, so recordings, findings, and questions are visible to everyone who should see them.
- Citesvue declines instead of guessing. If the evidence is not there, the answer says so, and you know the record is silent on the point rather than being handed a confident invention.
Your next recording could be
your most
valuable asset.
Or it could sit in a Drive folder nobody opens again. The difference is whether it has citations attached.
- SetupOne drag-and-drop upload, or send the notetaker. No plugins.
- First insightCited Q&A on a 60-min recording in under 6 minutes.
- Cancel anytimeFull data export, full right to erasure.