About Distill
It started as a habit.
Distill turns what you watch, and what you say, into work you can use. It began with one person copying transcripts into AI chats to pull out what was useful, often enough that it stopped being a prompt and became a workflow worth building once.
The habit
The same few steps, again and again, with every good video. The answers were useful. The process wasn't: copied by hand, asked from scratch each time, and gone the moment the chat scrolled away.
Distill is that habit, formalised. It asks the same five questions of every source, every time, credits who said what, and keeps the answers in a Library you can come back to, react to and build on.
- 1Watch a talk, an interview or a sermon.
- 2Copy the transcript.
- 3Paste it into an AI chat and ask the same questions: what's worth remembering, what could be built, what could be written, what could be taught.
- 4Tidy the answers, then lose them in a chat history.
- 5Do it all again for the next one.
Then it learned a second job
The best material often wasn't someone else's talk. It was an idea talked through on a walk, a lesson, a strategy worked out loud. So Distill listens to you too.
From what you watch
Learn from anyone, and keep it.
A video, a podcast or a transcript in; key points, product ideas, articles, social posts and teaching material out, each traced to its passage and credited to its speaker.
From what you say
Your own voice, made useful.
Talk an idea through, or mark your own talk, sermon or lecture as yours. It comes back in the first person, with your stories and lines, ready to remix.
A rehearsal worth keeping.
Distill used to throw every recording away the moment it was transcribed. Then a sermon rehearsal came through that was worth listening back to, and after the sermon itself, listeners asked for the audio.
Thoughtcast is the answer: your own recording, kept only if you choose, published as it was said, with the notes you pick, on a page with its own cover and link. Not a produced podcast. Raw thinking, kept and shared.
The first thoughtcast: a sermon, 21 October 2026, shown with permission.
What we hold to
Useful, not shorter.
A summary compresses what happened. Distill asks what you can do with it: the points worth keeping, the ideas worth building, the pieces worth writing and teaching.
Grounded in what was said.
Every item shows the passage it came from. A passage shows what someone said; it doesn't prove it true, so Distill says which is which.
Credit the speaker.
When it's someone else's talk, Distill names who said what. Their recording stays theirs; you keep what you learned from it.
Your voice stays yours.
Your own words come back in the first person, and Remix builds only from what you've said. Nothing is published unless you publish it.
Drafts, not answers.
What Distill makes is a strong first draft. You read it, edit it and decide what ships.
Kept, and reversible.
Everything lives in your Library to come back to, and you can unpublish, delete a source or delete your account at any time.
Made by Tamensah Labs
Distill is a product of Tamensah Labs, in Ghana. It was built first for its founder's own work, from product research to Sunday sermons, and earned its place there before anyone else was invited.
It's for anyone who learns from talks or thinks out loud: creators and consultants, founders, preachers and teachers, podcasters and trainers.
Distill is in early access, by invitation.
Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when there's room. Questions first? We read everything.