What Granola does
Granola (granola.ai) is a private AI productivity company building a “botless” AI notepad that captures meeting audio/transcribes while users stay in the conversation, then enhances and structures the notes so they can be searched, shared, and pushed into other work tools. Granola positions itself as more than transcription: it combines what a user jots during a meeting with what the system captures from the audio, then produces AI-enhanced notes that include searchable context and action items users can route to tools like Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Linear, Jira, and Asana (native integrations plus workflow routing via Zapier and an MCP connector).