Introducing Granola: The AI Notepad That Enhances, Not Replaces, Your Thinking In Meetings
May 22 2024 - 9:17AM
Business Wire
Granola has today launched the first AI-powered notepad for
meetings designed to replace intrusive meetings bots, screen
recorders and disorganized handwritten notes.
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Granola's AI notepad blends your typed
notes with details from the transcript, ensuring your meeting notes
focus only on what matters to you. (Graphic: Business Wire)
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.”
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.”
Granola is available to download and trial for free now:
https://www.granola.so/
About Granola
Granola was founded in March 2023 by Chris Pedregal and Sam
Stephenson to change the way we work, with tools that understand
us, anticipate our actions, and augment our abilities. In May 2023
they raised a $4.25m Seed round from Lightspeed Venture Partners,
betaworks and FirstMinute. They are based in London.
Additional Links
Product Images: https://go.granola.so/launchassets
Launch Blog: https://granola.so/blog/announcement
Website: https://www.granola.so/ Twitter:
https://x.com/meetgranola LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/meetgranola/
About the Founders
- Chris Pedregal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedregal/
Chris studied Computer Science at Stanford before joining Google as
a Product Manager, where he worked on Gmail, Search and Maps. In
2013 he quit to launch Socratic, an AI-powered tutor for high
school students, which grew organically to 10+million MAUs and won
“App of the Year” in 2017. In 2018, Socratic was acquired by
Google, where it receives over four billion questions a year.
- Sam Stephenson -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephensonsam/ Sam studied graphic
design at Falmouth before spending a few years in San Francisco at
a design agency and an education non-profit. Along the way, he
built his own startup connecting neighborhoods to local farmers,
helped build an iOS app for Swim Smooth, designed interactive ski
maps for Carv and helped an array of B2B companies with design and
front end development.
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Name: Christopher Pedregal Title: Co-Founder of
Granola Email: christopher@granola.so