Introducing Granola: The AI Notepad That Enhances, Not Replaces, Your Thinking In Meetings
Granola has launched the first AI-powered notepad for meetings designed to replace intrusive meetings bots, screen recorders and disorganized handwritten notes.
“Granola is loved by account managers for client calls, managers for 1 on 1s, and recruiters for interviews. It’s become useful across the whole company and makes us collectively better.”
Granola’s tool works like a regular notepad on a computer – with the added benefit of transcribing meetings in the background.
At the end of each call, the app combines any user-written notes with the meeting transcription to generate a clear, beautiful overview of the meeting’s most important takeaways and next steps, tailored precisely to each user’s needs.
Granola achieves this through deep integration with your calendar. It analyzes each meeting participant’s role and objectives, recognizing each user’s unique priorities change from meeting to meeting – be it a job interview, sales call or investor pitch – and structuring their notes accordingly.
A COURSE CORRECTION FOR AI TOOLS
Co-Founder Chris Pedregal says:
“The problem with AI tools today is that they don’t take your judgment into account. Take AI meeting bots as an example. They’ll join a meeting and take notes, but you have zero control over what notes they write. You can’t tell the meeting bot what you think is important; the AI decides for you.
“We founded Granola to put people back in control of the AI tools that shape their working lives.
“Granola follows your lead because it isn’t a bot that joins your meeting, it’s a notepad. You take notes to tell Granola’s AI what’s important to you – think of it as leaving a trail of breadcrumbs. Granola then follows your breadcrumbs and writes polished notes.”
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GUIDED BY USERS, ENHANCED BY AI
Granola ensures you stay in control with a suite of intelligent features designed for clarity and precision.
In the output content, your own typed notes are displayed in black, while additional AI-generated content appears in gray, making it easy to distinguish between the two.
The “Zoom In” feature provides full transparency by allowing you to view the exact quotes your notes are based on, ensuring complete accuracy and trustworthiness.
Additionally, Granola integrates OpenAI’s GPT-4 to offer advanced context-aware assistance and task management to help with post-meeting action items like writing a follow-up email, recalling specific details, or creating a bug report.
NOTES THAT HELP YOU AND YOUR TEAM
Luke Shipley, Co-founder & CEO of Zinc, an automated reference and background checking toolkit, says:
“Adopting Granola has been great for Zinc. Our team shares more internally, and as CEO I feel much more in touch with the moves we’re making as a company.
“Granola is loved by account managers for client calls, managers for 1 on 1s, and recruiters for interviews. It’s become useful across the whole company and makes us collectively better.”
