Overview

Beenote is a comprehensive corporate governance and meeting management platform designed to help boards of directors, committees, and executive teams plan, conduct, and archive meetings. The software provides dedicated spaces for building collaborative agendas, documenting minutes, organizing votes, and tracking post-meeting execution. By centralizing institutional records in a secure environment, Beenote reduces administrative overhead and enhances compliance.

Founder story

Founded in 2016 in Quebec, Canada by technology entrepreneur Louis Turmel, Beenote emerged to bring clarity to administrative corporate operations. Turmel noticed that executives wasted extensive working cycles using fragmented documentation and loose emails to structure vital board sessions, leading him to engineer a secure platform that formalizes corporate governance pipelines.

What it does

• Generates collaborative structured agendas with attached document summaries easily
• Tracks real-time meeting resolutions, digital voting results, and institutional records
• Automates formal meeting minutes generation and shares summaries with stakeholders
• Assigns post-meeting team action items and tracks execution progress dynamically.

Who it's for

• Boards of Directors
• Corporate Secretaries
• Executive Committees
• Non-Profit Management Teams

Why it works

• Reduces pre-meeting preparation time via standardized structural templates
• Secures board compliance history through permanent, untampered decision tracking registries
• Integrates seamlessly into native enterprise calendar and video communication environments
• Ensures corporate transition continuity by preserving centralized institutional intelligence records.

Growth strategies

• Native application integrations within Microsoft Teams and Office marketplaces
• Targeted account- based marketing toward municipal and regional governance boards
• Product- led tier upsells from free corporate team spaces into premium boards
• Bilingual marketing outreach capturing both English and French corporate markets

Alternatives

• Boardable
• Diligent Boards
• MeetingBooster
• Sherpany

Comparison overview

• Unlike horizontal meeting notetakers like Fathom or Otter, Beenote delivers dedicated legal compliance structures, resolution vote tracking, and board secretary tools.
• Compared to massive enterprise legacy platforms like Diligent, Beenote provides an accessible, cost-effective framework for mid-market corporate committees and non-profit organizations.