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Granola
Granola is a meeting notetaker that quietly records and transcribes every call you take. The leverage isn't the notes; it's what you do with them. Pipe the transcripts into a markdown library on your laptop and Claude Code can read your whole meeting history: every commitment made, every objection raised, every customer truth said out loud. The payoff is a CEO who walks in already prepared, follows up the same day, and gets coached on how they actually lead.
Below: everything we have published on Granola.
Start here
- Granola → markdown · the prerequisite for everything else. Set this up once and the other workflows run on the library it produces.
- Ask your meeting history anything · the query layer. Point Claude at the library and ask any question in plain English; get answers with citations.
- The commitment ledger · the highest-leverage doc in your week. Every promise made to you and by you, tracked, refreshed before each 1:1.
- Self-coaching from meetings · the uncomfortable one. Where you ducked confrontation, dominated airtime, or rushed past a concern, named with the quote that proves it.
Workflows & explainers
- Turn one customer call into a published case study draft A structured case-study draft built from the transcript of a happy-customer call, with every metric flagged for the customer to confirm before you publish a wor…
- Turn 20 customer calls into a product-roadmap signal A ranked, quote-backed read of what your customers actually keep asking for, extracted from twenty real call transcripts, so your roadmap is driven by evidence …
- Turn interview transcripts into a structured scorecard A consistent, evidence-backed scorecard for every candidate, generated from the interview transcript against the same rubric every time, so panel decisions stop…
- Book ideas from meetings: the source material is already being generated If you've ever thought about writing a book, this workflow makes it tractable. Claude organizes meeting moments against your book outline. Every week.
- Content ideas from meetings: never run out of things to write again Claude scans your transcripts for stories, anecdotes, customer truths, and sharp observations. Output is a running ideas file you mine for LinkedIn, articles, p…
- CRM enrichment from calls: every call updates your CRM for you Every customer call auto-populates your CRM with the people, the priorities, the personal context, and the real next step. Your sales team opens a record that's…
- Customer call to follow-up or spec: two outcomes from every call End a customer call, run one prompt against the transcript, and get back either a draft follow-up email in your voice or a draft product spec for your team.
- Your leadership doctrine: the principles you already use, captured A doc that grows over time, capturing the principles, metaphors, and frameworks you actually use in meetings. The seed manuscript of how you lead, pulled from h…
- Meeting effectiveness review: reclaim four hours a week Weekly review of which meetings produced decisions, which produced noise, and which could be cut.
- Self-coaching from meetings: where am I actually avoiding hard things Ask Claude where you've been ducking confrontation, dominating airtime, or rushing past concerns. Specific moments. Named patterns. Better alternatives. All gro…
- Team todos from meetings: stop chasing follow-up Action items from every meeting land in each owner's Slack DM minutes later. They have their list. You stop chasing.
- Pre-meeting brief: walk into every meeting already prepared A brief lands on your phone before every meeting. You walk in already knowing where you left things, what's outstanding, and what to lead with.
- What is Granola? The meeting recorder that turns every conversation you have into searchable [markdown](/articles/what-is-a-markdown-file) your AI can read.
- Automated pipeline hygiene: stay on top of every deal without a pipeline review A Claude Code agent reads every customer transcript from the prior day, cross-references it with your CRM, and surfaces deal moves, risk signals, and next-step …
- The commitment ledger: every promise you made (or made to you) tracked A running file that captures every commitment you made and every commitment people made to you. Refreshed weekly from your meeting transcripts. Walk into every …
- Weekly team and investor updates, generated from your meetings Two drafts every Friday morning. One team-facing, one investor-facing. Both pulled from the week's meeting record. You edit for tone and ship.
- Ask your meeting history anything: the CEO's query layer Open Claude. Point it at your meeting library. Ask any question in plain English. Get answers in thirty seconds, with citations.
- Granola → markdown: the foundation everyone's missing Export every meeting to [markdown](/articles/what-is-a-markdown-file). Make it searchable in Claude. Unlock six workflows on top of it.
All articles & long reads
- Build the second brain before you build the agent Everyone wants the agent. The ones that actually earn their keep are standing on a pile of your decisions, meetings, and notes. Build the pile first, and the ag…
- As a CEO, where should we start with AI, and what are the highest-value use cases? Most CEOs start in the most expensive place: a top-down strategy, an AI committee, a chatbot bolted onto the website. The highest-value move is smaller, closer …
- Granola for CEOs: the highest-ROI AI install of 2026 Five minutes to install. Thirty minutes to wire up the pipeline. Twelve workflows running on top of every meeting you'll have for the next year.
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