Granola

Granola is an AI meeting notepad designed around the idea that a person should still take notes during a meeting, just fewer of them. It runs quietly on the computer and captures the audio of a call or in-person conversation directly, with no meeting bot joining the call, while the user jots quick bullet points as they normally would. When the meeting ends, Granola combines those rough notes with the full transcript to produce a clean, structured write-up that expands the user's shorthand into complete points and fills in what was missed, formatted to a chosen template. Everything is transcribed and searchable afterward, and a chat function lets the user ask questions across one meeting or many, such as what was decided about a topic over the past month. It supports folders, shared notes, and team workspaces so notes can be circulated automatically. Granola runs on Mac, Windows, and iOS and has become popular with founders, investors, salespeople, and consultants who are in back-to-back calls. It raised funding at a valuation that grew from a few hundred million into the billions as it expanded from a personal notetaker toward a company knowledge tool. Granola offers a free plan with a monthly limit on meetings, and paid individual and team subscriptions that remove the limit and add collaboration and administration.