Granola

Granola is a desktop and mobile AI notepad that transcribes meetings from your computer audio without joining as a bot, then turns your rough jottings into structured notes, action items and follow-ups. Calendar-synced Briefs prepare you beforehand, and a chat layer searches your meeting memory.

Granola is an AI notepad built for people whose calendars are stacked with meetings. Rather than sending a bot into the call, it listens to your computer's audio in the background and transcribes the conversation while you type whatever rough notes you like. When the meeting ends, it merges your jottings with the transcript into a structured note covering what was discussed and what happens next. The same approach extends to in-person conversations through the iPhone and Android apps, so walking meetings and coffee catchups get captured too. The workflow is deliberately three-part. Before an external meeting, Granola pulls from your calendar and assembles a Brief: who is attending, what was covered previously, and the open threads that matter today. During the call it stays out of the way, letting you listen instead of transcribing by hand. Afterwards it surfaces notes, action items and follow-ups immediately, and can list actions, draft a follow-up email or sketch a project plan on request. A chat layer sits over your archive, so questions like what you promised this week can be answered from past meetings. It is aimed at founders, sales and customer-facing teams, product managers and anyone in back-to-back calls who wants their own record rather than a shared recording. Notes stay private by default and become shareable only when you choose, which distinguishes it from assistants that post a summary into the room. Because capture runs off system audio, it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and other meeting apps without per-platform setup. The trade-off is that Granola assumes you are at a computer for scheduled calls; it is a notepad that augments your own writing rather than a fully autonomous recorder that attends on your behalf. Teams wanting a visible bot in every invite, or transcripts generated entirely without user input, will find it a different shape of product.