An AI notepad that combines written notes with meeting transcripts and lets people search, share, and work with conversation knowledge.
Granola grew out of a question about AI at work: could a tool improve people's judgment rather than replace it? After building AI learning tools at Socratic, Chris Pedregal and his team turned their attention to meetings. A small team began developing Granola in 2023 and refined it with beta users before launching in May 2024. The resulting product starts with the notes a person chooses to write. Granola combines those notes with the meeting transcript to expand and organize them around that person's priorities. Its original launch also let people inspect the quotes behind a note, keeping the conversation available as evidence rather than treating a summary as the final authority.
