Granola

Granola is the privacy-first alternative to Otter — instead of auto-joining meetings as a bot (which signals everyone you're recording and triggers HR/IT pushback at many companies), Granola listens through your laptop's microphone and combines that audio with the manual notes you type during the meeting. The result is hybrid AI notes that feel like the notes you would have written yourself, augmented with full conversational accuracy. The product became the breakout AI meeting tool of 2024-2025 specifically because it solved the consent / privacy concern that Otter and Fireflies create. Templates auto-format notes for common meeting types: 1:1s, sales discovery, customer interviews, board prep, brainstorms. The AI Assistant lets you ask questions about prior meetings ("summarize all customer feedback about our pricing this month"). At $14/mo or $144/yr, Granola is priced for individual professionals, but business and enterprise tiers add team sharing, admin controls, and enterprise security. Common Sense Privacy Verified, SOC 2 Type II, and explicit no-training-on-customer-data policy make it credible for regulated industries. Granola's product positioning as "Otter without the bot" has made it the tool of choice for executives, founders, and consultants where meeting privacy matters.

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Key Features

• No bot joins your meeting — listens via mic + your notes
• Hybrid AI + manual note format
• Templates for 1:1, sales, customer interview, board, brainstorm
• AI Assistant (Q&A across prior meetings)
• Mac + Windows + iOS apps
• Slack + email summary auto-share
• SOC 2 Type II, no training on customer data

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