Granola

Granola is a meeting notes tool that listens alongside you rather than replacing your own thinking. It records and transcribes the call, then merges the transcript with whatever shorthand you typed during the meeting, producing a clean write-up that keeps the decisions, owners and open questions instead of an unreadable wall of speech-to-text. The part that earns its place in a stack is the searchable archive: once a few months of calls are in there, questions like "what did we promise that customer in June" stop being a Slack archaeology exercise. For teams, Granola's value scales with how many meetings actually matter — sales calls with commitments, product reviews with tradeoffs, hiring debriefs where the reasoning gets lost a week later. It is positioned for enterprise use, with privacy and security controls, so it fits companies that cannot pipe every conversation through a consumer transcription service. It works best when meetings are the place decisions get made; if your team runs mostly async in docs and tickets, the payoff is smaller. The freemium tier is enough to judge whether the note quality suits your meeting style before committing a whole team to it.