What happens on a session.
Prep, call, recap.
When you book a session with an expert's Digital Protégé, three things happen — you prep (lightly), you have a voice conversation, and you get a written recap with the recording. Most sessions take 15–60 minutes. None of them feel like a robot call.
Three stages. Most of it just happens.
1. Prep
When you book, you'll see a short prompt: anything the protégé should know before the call. A document to upload (if your expert has Codex), a question you want answered, a goal for the conversation. Skip it if you don't have anything ready — the protégé will work without it.
2. The call
Voice-first. The protégé calls you (browser or phone, whichever your expert offers). You talk. It listens, responds in your expert's voice, references the materials you brought, and answers from your expert's actual library — not generic AI guesses. If it doesn't know an answer, it tells you and offers to search live or follow up after.
3. The recap
Right after the call: a written summary, the highlights, action items pulled from the conversation, and the recording. All in your client portal. Replay anything, share what matters with your team, come back to a detail next week.
Real conversation, real-time.
The protégé speaks in your expert's actual voice. It listens like a person — interrupts gracefully, picks up on context, asks follow-ups. You can hold a normal conversation with it. The voice assistant under the hood is a low-latency, production-grade system tuned for back-and-forth (not the robotic, take-turns interaction you might expect from older voice AI).
If there's silence on your end, it waits. If you change topics mid-sentence, it follows. If you ask it to slow down, it slows down. The point is: you should forget you're on a call with software within the first minute.
Every session leaves a trail you own.
Session Summary
A short written recap of what was discussed, in plain English. Skimmable in under a minute. You can forward it to a partner, an attorney, your team — whoever needs to know what was said.
Insights & Action Items
The protégé pulls the decisions, the open questions, and the next steps out of the conversation and lists them separately. So you don't have to listen back through the whole call to remember what you committed to.
Recording & Transcript
The full audio recording plus a searchable transcript. Replay any moment. Search for a phrase. Cite a specific minute back to your expert later. Yours to keep in your client portal.
If the protégé doesn't know, it can look it up — live.
Sometimes a question comes up your expert hasn't covered in their knowledge base. When that happens, the protégé says so. Depending on your expert's setup, it can then search their wider library — articles they've written, books they've published, podcast transcripts, anything they've authorized — and pull the answer back into the conversation, on the same call.
No dead ends. No 'I can't help with that.' Just an honest 'let me look that up' followed by a real answer.
Codex — your private space inside the session.
If your expert has Codex enabled, you can upload documents the protégé should read before or during your session: a contract, a P&L, a 360 review, a plan, a brief. The protégé reads them in real time and grounds the conversation in your actual situation, not a generic version of it.
Your Codex space is yours. Per-client, per-session. No other client of that expert sees what you bring in. The expert can't read or export your documents directly — they only surface through the protégé inside your session.
Read more about Codex: /codex
Built for conversations that matter.
Apex Replicant is built to handle the kinds of sessions where the details matter — legal, medical, financial, career. Conversations and recordings are scoped to you and your expert. The platform is SOC 2 Type II readiness-aligned and uses row-level isolation across the stack.
If you want the specifics — where data lives, what's logged, who can see what — read /security before you bring anything sensitive into a session.
About the call itself.
- How long is a typical session?
- Most sessions run 15–60 minutes depending on the topic. Your expert sets the default length on their page; you'll see it before you book. You can end early if you've got what you needed.
- Browser or phone?
- Both work — your expert configures which they offer. Browser sessions don't need a download, just click the link. Phone sessions ring an actual number.
- What if the call drops or I need to step away?
- Rejoin via the same link. The protégé will pick up the conversation context where you left off; it doesn't have to start over.
- Will my expert see the recording?
- Depending on your expert's setup, yes — your expert may review session summaries to coach the protégé and improve future sessions. You'll always have access to the same recording and transcript in your client portal. For the specifics on what's visible to whom, see /security.
Pick the time.
Bring what you came to talk about.
Most sessions are minutes from booking to ringing. The protégé will be ready when you are.