Granola

Granola is an AI-powered meeting notepad designed for professionals who spend their days in back-to-back meetings and don't have time to clean up scattered notes afterward. Rather than acting as another meeting bot that joins your calls, Granola functions more like Apple Notes with a built-in transcription engine: you jot down rough notes during the conversation as you normally would, and once the meeting ends, Granola uses the captured audio transcript combined with your shorthand to produce a clean, structured, fully formatted set of notes complete with summaries, key points, and action items.

The core insight behind Granola is that the best meeting notes come from a combination of human attention and AI synthesis. Pure auto-transcription tools generate walls of text that nobody reads, while pure manual note-taking forces you to choose between participating in the conversation and capturing it. Granola lets you stay engaged, type minimal notes, and trust that the AI will fill in the context, expand abbreviations, and organize the result into something useful afterward.

Granola captures audio directly from your computer's system audio, which means it works with any video conferencing platform — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack huddles, or even in-person meetings recorded through your laptop microphone. There is no bot that joins the call, no calendar permission required for the meeting host, and no awkward moment when participants notice a recording assistant. Audio processing happens locally on your device for privacy.

Beyond the core notepad, Granola offers an AI chat interface that already has the context of your meetings, allowing you to ask questions across your notes ("what did the customer say about pricing last week?"), draft follow-up emails, or compile insights from multiple conversations. Customizable templates let teams standardize note formats for sales discovery calls, user research interviews, 1:1s, or executive briefings. CRM integrations push structured outputs into tools like Salesforce or HubSpot, and team-sharing features let colleagues collaborate on shared notes. A dedicated iPhone app extends the experience to phone calls and on-the-go meetings. In May 2025, Granola announced a $125M Series C to expand the product into a more comprehensive context engine for companies.