Granola

Granola is an AI meeting notepad for people who want to stay focused on a conversation without losing the decisions made in it. It captures meeting audio from your device rather than adding a bot to the call. You can write rough notes during the discussion; afterward, Granola uses those notes, the transcript, and available meeting context to prepare a more complete record. The result is editable, so you can correct names, decisions, and commitments before sharing it. Granola explains the approach in its product overview and note-enhancement guide.

How the meeting workflow works

Connect your calendar, open a meeting in Granola, and capture the conversation while writing down what matters to you. Afterward, compare the generated summary with the transcript and your own notes. Granola says you can inspect supporting quotes, edit the result, and enhance the notes again. That makes it useful for drafting and recall, but it is not an unquestionable record of who promised what. For an important decision, confirm the final wording, owner, and deadline with the participants. See Granola 101 for setup details.

The botless approach is a practical difference from tools that join a video call as another participant. It can make capture less intrusive, but it does not remove your responsibility to tell people when transcription is taking place or follow your organization’s consent rules. Granola is a meeting-notes product, not a substitute for a formal recording or your team’s system of record.

Finding and using meeting context

Granola includes AI chat for questions about a meeting or a collection of meetings, folders for organizing notes, and customizable templates for recurring conversations. For example, a researcher can ask what objections came up across several customer interviews, then open the underlying notes and check the quoted context before using that finding in a report. A manager can use a consistent template for one-to-ones, then review action owners at the next meeting.

Sharing needs a deliberate choice. A summary sent to Slack, Notion, or a CRM may reach a wider audience than the original call. Review folder access and connected destinations before distributing sensitive notes. Granola lists its current integrations and plan limits on the official pricing page.

Granola pricing and plan limits

On September 27, 2026, Granola listed Basic at $0 per user per month. It includes AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders, templates, and limited meeting history. Granola describes that history window as the most recent 30 days. Business is $14 per user per month and adds unlimited notes and history, advanced AI features, centralized billing, integrations including Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, and Zapier, plus MCP and API access. Enterprise starts at $35 per user per month and adds controls such as single sign-on, usage analytics, organization-wide retention settings, and administrator controls for sharing and API access. Check Granola’s pricing page for the latest billing terms and availability.

Who should consider Granola?

It is a strong candidate for founders, researchers, recruiters, managers, and customer-facing teams with frequent conversations to document. Basic is a sensible way to test whether its summaries capture the decisions your team actually cares about. Business becomes more relevant when 30 days of visible history is too short or notes need to move into other work systems. Enterprise is the plan to assess if centralized identity, retention, and sharing controls are procurement requirements.

The trade-off is simple: a polished AI summary can still be wrong or omit context. Test Granola with several real meetings, compare its output with the transcript and your own notes, and review privacy and consent requirements before using it for sensitive calls. Its value is not the volume of text it produces. It is whether your team can turn checked meeting context into dependable follow-up.