Granola

What Granola does

Granola is an AI notepad that captures every meeting, transcribes conversations, and enhances notes without requiring a bot to join the call. It uses computer audio for transcription and provides AI-powered summaries, action items, and follow-ups. Granola integrates with calendars to prep briefs before meetings and offers features like AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, customized note templates, and multi-language support. It is available for macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, and works with various meeting platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Granola prioritizes privacy and security, offering enterprise-grade controls, SSO, flexible data retention, and SOC 2 Type II certification.

Products

• Granola AI NotepadAn AI-powered notepad that transcribes meetings using computer audio, generates notes, action items, and follow-ups, and provides a perfect meeting memory without a bot joining the call.
• Granola ChatAn AI chat feature for querying meeting history and generating documents, summaries, or follow-up emails based on meeting content.
• Granola MCP ConnectorConnects Granola to other AI apps, making meeting notes available for use in various AI tools.

Key capabilities

• AI meeting notes
• AI chat within and across meetings
• Shared folders for collaboration
• Customized note templates
• Multi-language support
• Opt out of model training
• Unlimited meeting notes and history (Business plan and above)
• Access to advanced AI thinking models and features (Business plan and above)
• Advanced integrations
• Centralized billing & user management (Business plan and above)
• MCP integration in all apps (Business plan and above)
• API access (Business plan and above)
• Enterprise-grade security & admin controls (Enterprise plan)
• Single sign-on (SSO) (Enterprise plan)
• Priority support and usage analytics (Enterprise plan)
• Org-wide auto-deletion periods (Enterprise plan)
• Admin controls for sharing & API access (Enterprise plan)
• Org-wide notification that Granola is being used (Enterprise plan)
• Transcribes in the background using computer audio
• Works with all meeting apps (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Huddles, in-person)
• Private by default, easy to share
• Syncs with calendar and preps meeting briefs
• Generates PRDs, tickets, and decisions from notes
• Exports to issue trackers automatically
• Insights across all meetings
• Drafts follow-ups for prospects
• Automatically syncs with CRM
• Searchable sales conversations
• Transparency & admin controls for participant notifications
• No public model training
• Flexible data retention
• Domain management
• Admin dashboard
• SCIM provisioning
• Encryption (in transit and at rest)
• No stored audio recordings

Use cases

• Effortless note-taking during meetings
• Preparing for meetings with pre-meeting briefs
• Post-meeting administration (notes, action items, follow-ups)
• Querying meeting history for information
• Generating product requirements documents (PRDs) from user interviews
• Turning design reviews into briefs
• Pushing action items to Linear backlog
• Exporting decisions to issue trackers (Linear, Jira, Shortcut)
• Gaining insights across all meetings for product teams
• Capturing user interviews and sprint decisions for Product Managers
• Drafting follow-up emails for prospects in sales
• Automatically updating CRM (HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, Salesforce via Zapier)
• Searching through sales conversations for onboarding new reps or coaching
• Streamlining meeting note-taking and knowledge sharing across organizations
• Improving team collaboration
• Turning raw conversations into rich insights
• Aligning sales pods and moving deals faster

AI approach

Granola is an AI notepad that transcribes meetings using computer audio, summarizes them, generates action items, and can draft documents like PRDs or follow-up emails. It uses third-party transcription and AI providers but does not allow them to train on user data. Granola also trains on anonymized user data to improve its service, with an opt-out option.

Tech named: Deepgram, Assembly, OpenAI, Anthropic

Industries served

• Fintech
• Product Development
• Sales

What it says sets it apart

• No meeting bot required; uses computer audio for transcription
• Private by default, with user control over sharing
• Works with all meeting platforms, including in-person meetings via mobile app
• Syncs with calendar to provide pre-meeting briefs
• AI-enhanced notes and summaries generated instantly post-meeting
• Ability to query meeting history and generate various documents (PRDs, follow-ups)
• Direct integration with CRMs and issue trackers
• Enterprise-grade security, privacy, and admin controls (SSO, SOC 2 Type II, no public model training)
• Flexible data retention and domain management for enterprises
• Focus on user-led adoption and minimal IT administrative burden

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.