Granola

Granola captures and transcribes audio directly from your computer's output rather than joining meetings as a bot participant. This works across all meeting platforms—Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and others—without any per-platform configuration. The result is that meeting participants never see an AI notetaker in the call, preserving the natural dynamic of the conversation.

During a meeting, you type quick shorthand notes just as you would in any notepad. When the meeting ends, Granola's AI combines your notes with the full transcript to produce structured, detailed summaries. This hybrid approach means the output reflects not just what was said, but what you considered important enough to jot down—giving the AI critical context about your priorities.

Granola provides pre-built templates for common meeting types including customer discovery calls, user interviews, 1-on-1s, pitches, and standups. Each template defines the structure of the AI output—for instance, a sales call template organizes notes into sections like company overview, current pain points, requirements, budget and timeline, and next steps. Teams can customize templates to match their specific workflows.

After a meeting concludes, Granola's built-in AI chat lets you ask questions about the conversation. You can request action item lists, ask what a participant said about a specific topic, generate follow-up emails, or extract details like budget figures and objections. The AI draws on both the transcript and your personal notes to provide contextually rich answers.

Meeting notes can be shared instantly to Slack channels, email (including all meeting participants), CRM systems, ATS platforms for candidate notes, project update feeds, or as public links. This eliminates the friction of manually copying and reformatting notes for different audiences and tools, which is particularly valuable for roles like sales and recruiting where post-meeting documentation is critical but time-consuming.