Granola

What Is Granola?

Granola is an AI-powered meeting notepad designed to help people capture, organize, and work with information from their meetings. Instead of relying on a traditional meeting bot that joins a video call as a participant, Granola uses audio from the user's device to capture the conversation.

The platform combines the meeting transcript with the user's own rough notes and uses AI to turn them into structured, detailed meeting notes.

How Does Granola Work?

Before a meeting, users can open Granola and connect their calendar so the application can provide context about upcoming meetings. During the conversation, users can write short notes about the points they consider important while Granola captures the meeting audio.

After the meeting, Granola uses the transcript and the user's notes to create enhanced notes. This approach allows users to guide the AI toward the information they care about instead of relying entirely on an automatically generated transcript.

Granola works across meeting platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, as well as in-person conversations. It does not require a separate meeting bot to join the call.

AI Meeting Notes

Granola's core feature is AI-enhanced meeting notes. Users can capture their own thoughts during a meeting and then use the transcript as additional context for generating structured notes.

The resulting notes can be reviewed and edited, allowing users to keep the information that is useful and remove anything unnecessary.

AI Chat for Meeting Knowledge

Granola allows users to interact with their meeting information through AI chat. Instead of manually searching through old meeting notes, users can ask questions about previous conversations and retrieve information from their meeting history.

For example, users can ask what was decided in a previous meeting, identify action items from recent conversations, or look for information discussed across multiple meetings.

Meeting Templates and Recipes

Users can create customized note templates for different types of meetings. This can be useful for sales calls, customer interviews, hiring conversations, product meetings, research sessions, and internal team discussions.

Granola also provides Recipes, which are reusable prompts for post-meeting workflows such as creating follow-up emails, extracting feature requests, preparing PRDs, or generating coaching feedback.

AI Meeting Integrations

Granola can connect meeting information with other tools used in business and productivity workflows.

Its integrations include tools such as Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, Salesforce, Linear, Google Calendar, Outlook, Gmail, and Zapier.

Through Zapier, meeting notes can also be connected to thousands of other applications.

Granola and AI Assistants

Granola supports connections with AI applications through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Users can connect their meeting knowledge with compatible AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Replit, v0, and other supported applications.

This allows users to ask AI assistants questions about their meetings and use meeting context without manually copying and pasting notes.

CRM and Productivity Workflows

For teams, Granola can connect meeting information to CRM and productivity systems.

For example, meeting notes can be sent to relevant contacts, companies, or deals in CRM platforms such as HubSpot, Attio, and Affinity. Meeting action items can also be connected to project-management platforms such as Linear, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Monday.com, and Trello through supported integrations.

This can help turn information discussed during meetings into follow-up tasks and business workflows.

Granola for Different Teams

Granola can be useful across a range of professional workflows.

Sales Teams

Sales teams can use meeting notes to capture customer conversations, identify action items, and connect information with CRM records.

Product Teams

Product managers and researchers can use Granola to document customer interviews, product discussions, feature requests, and user feedback.

Recruiting Teams

Recruiters and hiring teams can use structured meeting notes to keep track of interviews and conversations with candidates.

Founders and Managers

Founders and managers can use meeting history and AI search to retrieve decisions, discussions, and action items from previous conversations.

Developers and Technical Teams

Developers can connect meeting context to tools such as Cursor and other AI applications through Granola's MCP integrations.

Granola Pricing

Granola uses a freemium pricing model.

The Basic plan is free and includes AI meeting notes, limited meeting history, AI chat, shared folders, customized note templates, and multi-language support.

The Business plan costs $14 per user per month and adds unlimited meeting history, advanced AI models, additional integrations, centralized billing and user management, MCP functionality, and API access.

The Enterprise plan starts at $35 per user per month and adds enterprise-focused security and administration features such as SSO, priority support, usage analytics, and organization-wide controls.

Is Granola Free?

Yes. Granola has a free Basic plan. Users can create unlimited meeting notes, but access to older meeting history is limited to the most recent 30 days.

Users who need unlimited history, advanced models, and broader business integrations can upgrade to a paid plan.

Privacy and Security

Granola has published information about its approach to data privacy and security. The company achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification in July 2025.

Granola also provides users with the ability to opt out of model training. On Enterprise, this control can be managed across the organization.

Because Granola captures conversations, users should inform meeting participants that the meeting is being transcribed and follow applicable privacy and recording laws.

Why Use Granola?

Granola is particularly useful for people who want the benefits of AI meeting notes without having an automated bot appear as another participant in their meetings.

Its combination of device-based audio capture, user-written notes, AI-enhanced summaries, searchable meeting history, templates, integrations, and AI connections makes it more than a simple transcription tool.

It can act as a layer between meetings and the tools teams already use to manage information, customer relationships, projects, and follow-up work.

Overall

Granola is a modern AI meeting assistant built around the idea of an AI-enhanced notepad rather than a traditional meeting bot. It captures conversations, combines them with the user's own notes, and turns them into structured information that can be searched, queried, shared, and connected to other workflows.

Its free plan makes it easy to test the core experience, while the Business and Enterprise plans are designed for users and organizations that need longer meeting history, advanced AI capabilities, integrations, and administrative controls.