Granola

Granola is a bot-free AI meeting notepad built by Granola, Inc. in London (Shoreditch) and co-founded by CEO Chris Pedregal. The platform raised $192 million total including a $125 million Series C from Index Ventures (Danny Rimer) and Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid) in March 2026, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Enterprise customers include Vanta, Vercel, Gusto, Thumbtack, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon, and Mistral AI. Granola runs on Mac, Windows, and iPhone without ever joining meetings as a visible bot participant: it captures system audio directly from the device, transcribes using Deepgram and Assembly AI in real time, and generates structured meeting notes, action items, and AI chat context using OpenAI and Anthropic models. Pricing has three tiers verified live as of May 6, 2026: Basic at $0 per user per month with AI meeting notes, limited meeting history, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, customisable templates, multi-language support, and model training opt-out; Business at $14 per user per month adding unlimited notes and history, access to advanced AI thinking models, integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, Asana, and Zapier, centralised billing, MCP integration, and personal API access; Enterprise at $35 per user per month adding SOC 2 enterprise controls, SSO, priority support, usage analytics, enterprise API access, org-wide auto-deletion periods, admin controls for sharing and API access, and org-wide model training opt-out. Setup takes approximately 5 minutes after downloading the desktop app and connecting a Google Workspace or Microsoft login. Granola is partially autonomous: users must manually start recording before each meeting as it does not auto-join or auto-record, but transcription, note generation, action item extraction, and AI chat across meeting history all run automatically without further intervention after recording starts. Business and Enterprise users can configure Recipes -- post-meeting custom AI tasks that execute automatically when meetings end. Security: SOC 2 Type 2 certified July 2025 (completed in 3 months rather than typical 12-18 month timeline due to architecture that deletes audio immediately after transcription), GDPR compliant with Data Processing Agreement, no stored audio recordings, notes encrypted at rest and in transit on US-hosted AWS VPC, no third-party model training on user data, Zoom/Meet/Teams consent notification feature in pilot for Enterprise. Limits: manual start per meeting required (no auto-join), language support is multi-language but exact count not published on site, limited meeting history on Basic free tier, org-wide model training opt-out requires Enterprise at $35/user/mo, no HIPAA compliance. TCO for a 10-person team on Business is $1,680 per year; Enterprise is $4,200 per year.