Granola

Overview

Granola is a meeting notes app that sits next to your video call, captures audio locally, and enhances whatever notes you took with full meeting context after the call. Less intrusive than a bot that joins the meeting, and the output is structured the way you write, not a generic AI summary.

Best for

Best for
Knowledge workers in back-to-back meetings who already take their own notes

Use cases

• Take notes the way you always have, get an enhanced version after the call
• Avoid the awkward 'a bot has joined the meeting' moment
• Generate follow-up emails and action items in your own voice
• Search across your meeting history later

Notes

Why it matters

Most meeting AI tools optimise for the bot use case. Granola optimises for the human still in the meeting. That distinction maps to a quietly large audience.

How teams use it in production

Take whatever notes you already take. Let Granola enhance after the call. Review and forward the action items. The loop is tight enough to actually stick.

What to watch

The race between bot-based tools (Fireflies, Otter) and human-first tools (Granola, Krisp Notes) will define how meeting AI lands across the professional market.