Plaud Introduces Plaud Team, Turning Workplace Conversations Into Organizational Intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2026--

Plaud, the world’s number one note-taking brand by sales volume and creator of AI work companions for professionals, today announced Plaud Team, a new team workspace designed to help organizations capture, structure, and build on the conversations where work actually happens.

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The launch reflects a shift already underway. As Plaud has grown to more than 2 million users globally, adoption has spread organically inside teams — from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. What began as an individual productivity tool increasingly became part of how teams think and operate, revealing a consistent need: not just to take notes, but to retain and build on the thinking behind them. Plaud Team is the company’s response, extending AI note-taking from a personal tool into a shared layer of organizational intelligence.

“Most of the important thinking happens before anything gets written down,” said Nathan Xu, Co-founder and CEO of Plaud. “It happens in conversations — when people are testing ideas, making sense of problems, and figuring out what to do next. Plaud Team is built to help teams keep that context and build from it. Companies don’t run on documents, they run on people, on conversation.”

With Plaud Team, organizations can bring structure to conversations across in-person meetings, phone calls, and online discussions, turning them into a shared intelligence layer for the business. Rather than treating conversations as disposable, Plaud Team helps teams preserve what was discussed, what was decided, and what needs to happen next, all while maintaining individual trust and control.

Plaud Team extends Plaud’s core experience from the individual to the team. It introduces dedicated team workspaces for deployment, management, and collaboration, while keeping notes private by default unless users choose to share them. For businesses, that means a more structured way to adopt AI note-taking across teams without losing the simplicity that drove adoption in the first place. Collaboration features coming later this year will take this further — letting teams centralize conversation context across the organization, so everyone stays aligned and up to speed, even when they aren't in the room.

Real-world businesses starting on Team plan can attest:

“In our work, accuracy, nuance, and trust matter in every conversation,” says Dean Benard, President and CEO of Benard and Associates. “Plaud helps my team capture critical details across interviews, calls, and case discussions without losing the human context behind them. With Plaud Team, we'll now have a more structured way to support collaboration across the firm while maintaining the rigor and professionalism our work demands.”

At launch, Plaud Team includes centralized billing, user and device management, and workspace controls, all built on the same enterprise-grade security and privacy infrastructure companies can trust. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, enterprise-grade AI workflows operate with zero data retention and zero training by default, and regional cloud hosting is supported across the United States, Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Plaud Team is available today in North America at plaud.ai/team.

About Plaud

Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through conversation intelligence, loved by over 2 million users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract and utilize what you say, hear, see and think.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human-AI intelligence through a hardware-software combination. With ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection. To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Plaud Team gives organizations a way to capture, structure, and build on the conversations where work actually happens.

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembélé won Ligue 1's player of the season award for the second straight year, despite injuries limiting him to nine league starts.

Dembélé received the award late Monday night as a PSG player claimed it for the 10th straight time. Kylian Mbappé won five in a row before joining Real Madrid.

Alexandre Lacazette was the last non-PSG player to win it when playing for Lyon in 2015. The prize was not awarded during the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 campaign.

Dembélé was selected ahead of two PSG teammates: left back Nuno Mendes and tireless central midfielder Vitinha — who spent more than twice as long as Dembélé on the field. Lens winger Florian Thauvin and Marseille forward Mason Greenwood were the other two candidates.

Dembélé starred in PSG's league title win last season with 21 goals — level with Greenwood — and went on to win the Ballon d'Or, but made less of an impact this time mainly because of nagging injuries in the first half of the season.

But he still managed 10 goals and five assists in 20 league appearances overall as coach Luis Enrique used him and captain Marquinhos more sparingly in Ligue 1. Dembélé played 959 minutes in total compared to 2,369 for Thauvin, who finished with the same number of goals, assists and penalties (two) and 2,008 for Vitinha.

His performances have arguably been more impactful in the Champions League. PSG is aiming for a second straight title after beating Bayern Munich in the semifinals, with Dembélé’s early goal in the return leg earning PSG a 1-1 draw and putting it through 6-5 on aggregate.

PSG plays Premier League leader Arsenal in the final on May 30.

PSG teammate Désiré Doué was voted the league's best young player for the second straight season. The 20-year-old forward's winning goal against Brest on Sunday put PSG on the verge of a record-extending 14th league title.

PSG is six points ahead of second-placed Lens with two games left and with a vastly superior goal difference. PSG only needs a draw at Lens on Wednesday in their rescheduled match to clinch the title.

Pierre Sage won the best coach award for turning Lens into a surprise title contender in his first season in charge and with far less resources than cash-rich PSG.

“Congratulations to Pierre Sage, he deserves to win this trophy because what he's done with Lens is incredible,” Luis Enrique said. “It's the first time in my three seasons here that there's been a genuine rival. It's has been motivating.”

Robin Risser won the best goalkeeper award for Lens.

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PSG's Desire Doue, left, celebrates scoring his side's opening goal during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Brest in Paris, France, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

PSG's Ousmane Dembele runs for the ball during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Brest in Paris, France, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)