Granola

Granola transcribes meetings by capturing your computer's system audio directly, eliminating the need for a recording bot to join your call. This means it works across all video conferencing platforms — Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and others — without any platform-specific setup. Participants never see a recording notification or AI attendee, preserving the natural dynamics of the conversation.

Rather than producing a raw transcript, Granola merges your manually typed notes with the full AI-generated transcript when the meeting ends. Your shorthand observations, impressions, and key points become the backbone of the final notes, while the AI fills in the complete context, extracts action items, surfaces decisions, and organizes everything into a clean, structured format.

After a meeting, you can ask Granola natural-language questions about what was discussed — such as 'What was their budget?', 'List their objections', or 'What are the next steps?' The AI searches the transcript and your notes to provide specific answers, making it easy to retrieve details without scrolling through pages of notes or re-watching a recording.

Granola offers customizable templates tailored to common meeting types including customer discovery calls, user interviews, 1:1s, standups, and pitch meetings. Templates define the output structure so notes are automatically organized into relevant sections like 'About Them', 'Key Takeaways', 'Budget & Timeline', and 'Next Steps', ensuring consistency across your team.

Meeting notes can be shared instantly to multiple destinations including Slack channels, email to all participants, CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot, ATS platforms for candidate notes, and public links for broader distribution. This eliminates the manual copy-paste workflow of distributing meeting recaps and keeps notes where your team already works.