Granola

Granola is a bot-free AI meeting notepad from Granola, Inc. in London, co-founded by CEO Chris Pedregal. The company has raised $192 million in total, including a $125 million Series C from Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins in March 2026 at a $1.5 billion valuation. Its customers include Vanta, Vercel, Gusto, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon, and Mistral AI. Granola runs on Mac, Windows, and iPhone and never joins meetings as a visible bot; instead it captures system audio directly from the device on any call. It transcribes with Deepgram and Assembly AI and generates structured notes, action items, and AI chat using OpenAI and Anthropic models. It is partially autonomous: the user must start recording before each meeting since it does not auto-join, but note generation, action-item extraction, and cross-meeting AI chat then run automatically. Business-tier integrations confirmed on the pricing page include Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, and Zapier, plus an official Granola MCP server that lets AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, v0, and Bolt.new query meeting notes directly. Business and Enterprise users can configure Recipes, post-meeting AI tasks that run automatically when a meeting ends, and API access is included on Business (org-wide API is Enterprise). Named gaps include no native Salesforce integration at any tier, no native Linear or Jira without Zapier, and no Android app. Because Granola captures system audio, it works on any call platform including Webex, though it offers no platform-specific Webex integration. Pricing is in USD, charged per user per month with no annual discount tier. Basic is $0 with unlimited AI meeting notes, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, customizable templates, multi-language support, and model-training opt-out, though notes older than 30 days require an upgrade. Business is $14 per user per month with unlimited notes and history, advanced AI models, the Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, and Zapier integrations, centralized billing, MCP integration, and API access. Enterprise is $35 per user per month, self-serve, adding enterprise security and admin controls, SSO, priority support, usage analytics, org-wide auto-deletion, and org-wide model-training opt-out by default. Granola uses de-identified meeting data to improve its own AI models with per-user opt-out on all plans, and third parties such as OpenAI and Anthropic are contractually barred from training on user data. Granola is not the right fit for teams that need fully autonomous capture without any per-meeting action: Fathom, Fireflies, and tl;dv all auto-join calendar meetings as visible bots, so nothing is missed if a user forgets to start recording. Teams requiring HIPAA compliance for healthcare cannot use Granola, which offers no BAA at any tier. Teams needing native Salesforce CRM sync should evaluate Fathom or Fireflies, both of which include it. Android users are not served, as Granola has no Android app, and teams needing a published 100-plus-language count should evaluate Fireflies. Current state Q3 2026: Granola raised its $125 million Series C in March 2026 at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Windows support launching alongside it. Its MCP server is an official connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, Figma Make, Replit, v0, and Bolt.new. SOC 2 Type II was completed in July 2025, reached in about three months thanks to an audio-deletion architecture that stores no recordings. Granola holds SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA, the iPhone app is live for in-person capture, and no HIPAA compliance or native Salesforce integration is available as of this audit. Not affiliated.