Granola Release Notes

Granola now helps you prepare for a meeting, as you walk into it.

Open a meeting note, and you'll see a short brief: who you're meeting, what you discussed last time and what matters now. Perfect for those times you're frantically Googling a person as you join a call five minutes later than planned.

How it works

Overnight, Granola starts preparing for your day ahead.

First, it checks who you're meeting. It thinks about what matters to you, so every brief is different. It researches your past notes and what you've already discussed if you've met before.

Then, if you choose to add Gmail access, it can pull from recent emails. And then, it'll do some web research if it feels it needs to.

By the time you open your laptop, the brief is ready. No set up needed, no manual prompting.

When it helps

You're busy, so your brief is designed to be quick. It's a two-to-three bullet pointed list of what matters most, so you can catch up fast. Then it gets out of your way, so you can focus on the person in front of you.

It means you never walk into a meeting cold. Know what's important to you and the person in front of you, catch up on what you discussed last time and track where you are with ongoing projects.

Every fact is cited, and at the bottom of each brief, you can always see the steps it took to decide what to show you.

Meeting with a regular client? Granola will remind you where you left off and highlight any open items.

Or, if you're meeting someone for the first time, Granola works with your notes, the wider internet and your Gmail.

Get prepared with Granola

Briefs are live today on Mac, Windows and iPhone.

You'll get briefed on upcoming meetings with external participants.

Briefs are designed to be short, unobtrusive, and to hide themselves once you've read it, so you can get back to what matters: getting the doing done.

Today, we're releasing a much smarter and faster Granola Chat, rebuilt from the ground up to be agentic.

That means it knows how to work with all your meeting notes and transcripts, as well as notes shared into your Team Space and those shared with you privately. It knows when you're looking for a quick answer to a specific question, or if you're asking a deeper, more thoughtful question across lots of notes.

If you've been using Granola for a while now, you've likely built up thousands of notes documenting decisions, discussions and next steps.

And you might be using Granola with your team: to pool user interviews, refer back to sales calls or to remember recurring meetings.

That's a lot of context. And Chat now handles questions across all of it with ease. Whether you're asking a quick question about a person you met a few years ago, or analyzing themes across hundreds of user calls.

Granola Chat is auditable by you, by design too.

Inline citations mean you can always double-click into the detail. So you'll always know who said what, where a number came from or when a decision was made. Chat tells you proactively which notes it refers to. So you can always redirect it to the right place, if you'd like to reference notes it hasn't looked at.

New Recipes

Alongside the all-new Granola Chat, we're also sharing a collection of new Recipes.

Some of our favorites:

• /How I have changed: which tells you the story of who you were when you started using Granola, who you are now, and the turning points in between.
• /How I like to work: a "how I like to work" guide you can share with your team, inferred from how you actually show up across meetings and 1:1s.
• /Prep my day: a briefing for every meeting on your calendar today, with where you left off last time and what you've promised.

Recipes are saved, shareable prompts you can use in Granola Chat. Check out the full library.

We're putting your company's context to work

There's so much you can do at work with the context that lives in your meeting notes. They're often the most up-to-date, and detailed, artifact your company has about what's going on.

Now Granola Chat has been rebuilt to help you make the most of that context.

And there's more to come too. Over time, Granola will help you prepare for meetings and take action after. Helping you show up better prepared, stay focused and get more done.

Today we're announcing our $125M Series C at a $1.5bn valuation, led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. Our existing investors at Lightspeed, Spark and NFDG have all partnered with us again.

Granola has become a staple across some of the world's most innovative companies: from enterprises like Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack and Asana to fast-growing startups like Cursor, Lovable, Decagon and Mistral AI.

These companies are turning to Granola not only to capture their notes, but also to capture their context. Conversation transcripts are the richest source of context for what's happening across your company, and when paired with powerful AI models, they can unlock workflows that wouldn't have been possible before.

We want to make it easy to put your company's context to work for you - both inside of Granola and in the other tools you use. Today, we're launching three features that bring this to life:

Spaces to organize your context

Spaces are an easy way to organize and share notes with your team.

• You control what's visible, to who, and when.
• Everyone gets a Team Space, to easily share notes, and My Notes, where you can keep conversations to yourself or share selectively.
• Folders now sit inside Spaces, and have expanded access controls.
• Folders can now be filtered by company or by person.
• And, you can create folders inside folders to make team organization even easier.

With notes added to a Team Space, your entire team can ask anything about them. Granola Chat is built right into Spaces, and is always powered by the latest Claude, GPT and Gemini models.

So it's easy to ask about your top user needs across research calls, understand why you're losing a deal across multiple sales conversations with a specific company or write a marketing brief based on brainstorms and planning sessions with your team. And because conversations are richer than docs, decks or emails, Granola's answers are richer too.

APIs

Granola's context should be easily accessible and useful. So you can use it anywhere, we're launching:

• A personal API for people to access their notes, and notes shared with them (available on Business and Enterprise plans)
• An enterprise API, for admins to work with team context (available on Enterprise plan)
• An updated MCP, so you can see notes in folders, and notes shared with you

Enterprise visibility, enterprise control

Workspace admins on Enterprise can now see Granola usage at a glance: including the number of active users, notes taken and top note-takers. The content of notes always stays private, unless shared.

And Granola for Enterprise also comes with everything you'd expect: SSO, SCIM, granular user access control, consent management, scheduled transcript deletion and an easy way to delete sensitive data from transcripts.

Powering all your AI tools, with more to come

Granola is already an official connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Lovable, Figma Make, Replit, Manus, v0, Bolt.new, Duckbill and Dreamer, with more partners in the works.

With today's new APIs, updates to MCP and Spaces, working with your whole team's conversation context is easier than ever.

There's more to come in the Granola app too. More soon.

But for now, back to building.

Chris

Chris Pedregal, Cofounder & CEO

Taking your meeting context to new places

Today we're launching Granola MCP. In a few clicks, your favorite AI apps can be aware of your meetings.

Granola already helps you do a lot with your meeting notes: search them, share them, ask questions, pull out action items. But sometimes you're working somewhere else. You're in Claude drafting a document. You're in ChatGPT analyzing data. You're in Cursor writing code.

And you find yourself thinking: "I talked about this in a meeting last week."

Until now, that meant switching back to Granola, finding the note, copying the relevant bit, and pasting it in. It works, but it breaks your flow.

Now, you can connect the Granola MCP to your AI app of choice, and it'll pull from your conversations directly.

When it's useful

Working in Claude Code or Cursor: Your meeting context comes with you. Ask it to create tickets for the bugs you discussed, or scaffold a feature based on what was agreed.

Doing sprint planning: Ask Claude to update your Linear board from this morning's standup.

Writing up a sales call: Get ChatGPT to draft and share the notes to your CRM from what was actually discussed.

Building a proposal: Use your discovery conversations as context without digging through notes.

How it works

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI tools connect to external data sources. Think of it a bit like USB-C for AI apps: it's a common way for things to plug together.

With Granola MCP, you connect your Granola account to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other tool that supports MCP. Once connected, that tool can access your notes when you ask it to.

Getting started

With Claude:

1. Make sure you're signed up to a paid plan
2. Go to Settings
3. Go to Connectors, search for Granola
4. Connect, authenticate and make sure you're toggled on when chatting.

With ChatGPT:

1. Make sure you're signed up to a paid plan
2. Go to Settings
3. Go to Apps, search for Granola
4. Connect, authenticate and make sure you're toggled on when chatting.

With Cursor, Claude Code, or another MCP client:

You can connect manually using this URL:

https://mcp.granola.ai/mcp

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For enterprises

If you're on a Granola Enterprise plan, MCP is available in early access beta. It's off by default. Admins can turn it on for their workspace in Settings > Security.

We're also working on additional enterprise capabilities: advanced access controls, usage monitoring and analytics, higher rate limits, and flexible pricing options. More on that soon.

What's next

This is a first step. We think there's a lot more we can do to make your meeting context useful across the tools you use every day. We'll keep building.

For now, we hope this makes your workflow a bit smoother.

Where we started

If you've been using Granola for a while, you might notice things look a little different today.

New logo, new typefaces, new visual system, and a pretty thorough pass on the product itself. It’s still the same Granola underneath. If anything, this is the brand finally catching up to what Granola already is.

When Chris and I started Granola in 2023, we were captivated by this idea that AI was about to change all of the tools we use for work. We started with meetings because that’s where so much of work happens, and where so much gets lost. We wanted something that could sit with you, quietly capture what matters, and let you stay present instead of frantically taking notes.

That’s still what Granola does – helps you stay present in your meetings and not lose the thread afterwards.

Something we didn’t expect: when you use Granola a lot, you build up a real connection with it. We feel it too. The people who use Granola tend to be ambitious, independent-minded, spinning too many plates. Calendars packed to the edges. In that kind of work life, Granola becomes a calming presence. Like a trusty notebook you carry with you everywhere. It has your back. You feel more in control.

That feeling – of making progress through the chaos instead of getting lost in it – is what we want Granola to be about. We kept coming back to this phrase: progress over process.

Where we're going

AI works best when it has the best possible context about you, and we think the conversations you have at work are some of the richest context there is. Meetings are where decisions get made, ideas surface, commitments happen. They're where a lot of the real work actually gets done, and we don't see that changing even as more of our work gets automated. We're building toward an AI that doesn't just capture your meetings but genuinely understands what's going on and helps you move things forward.

The new brand

The brand needed to catch up to that. Our original identity was thrown together in a few frantic days, and it showed. Show our old homepage to someone who’d never used Granola and we looked like any other SaaS company. That got us pretty far, but we’d outgrown it.

We wanted to find a partner here in London to help us bring this to life. Ragged Edge is a studio whose work everyone on our design team had independently admired for years. So we were over the moon to discover they were already heavy Granola users. As we got to know them, it became clear they really understood the soul of what we’re building.

The main design challenge was this: Granola feels calm and steady to use, but the people using it have fast-paced, high-energy work lives. How do you make a brand that acknowledges (and celebrates) that reality, but still feels like a calm presence inside it?

We landed on something approachable and optimistic, a bit rough around the edges, but sharp enough to feel like a serious tool. Calm, but with energy underneath. We kept the green but gave it a proper system. The typography pairs Quadrant, a slightly mechanical slab serif for display, with Melange, a neutral but subtly characterful UI font. The new logo is hand-drawn and deliberately imperfect. It doesn’t look like something a committee would produce, which is the point.

We also did our first real pass on the product’s visual design. Tikhon and Luke on the desktop app, James on the website, Ru and Tom on iOS, so that everything finally feels consistent and part of the same world.

What's next

None of this changes what Granola does for you today.

But we’re unveiling an identity that feels much closer to the soul of us as a company and as a product – and much more aligned with where we’re taking things.

Granola started as a way to capture what happens in meetings. Increasingly, it’s going to be about helping you do something with everything you capture.

More on that soon. In the meantime, I'm extremely proud of what we're launching today.

How it works

You can now delete specific parts of a transcript, while keeping the rest intact. Which means you can keep the useful parts of your meeting notes and have control over what's stored.

This is helpful if you shared something in a meeting you'd rather keep to yourself – like a phone number, bank details, a password or something personal.

Granola notes have two layers. There's the note you see and edit, and there's the transcript running underneath that powers features like Chat. Granola will always try its best to hide sensitive information in your note when you mention it. But if it doesn't, you can still edit it.

When you edit your notes, you're editing the top layer. This top layer is the only thing others see when you share a note.

The transcript layer stays intact underneath though, so Granola Chat can still answer questions about what was said.

This is useful most of the time, but it creates an edge case: if someone mentions something in a meeting they'd rather keep to themselves, Chat could still surface it – even if you'd deleted it from your note.

We worked with SOAISEC Labs, a security research team, to make sure we'd covered this. So now, all you need to do is click the transcript in a note, choose the chunk you'd like to delete, then click the delete button.

We'll then prompt you to regenerate your note to make sure there's no mention of what you just deleted in your note.

A good habit for shared notes

When you share a Granola note, you're sharing the note and Granola Chat.

And Granola Chat sometimes uses the transcript to be helpful. But it could also be used by someone to try to find sensitive information, if it was talked about.

So if something sensitive came up in a meeting, delete it from the transcript before sharing.

And if you're about to discuss passwords or sensitive details, you can always pause the transcription during the meeting, and resume when it's safe.

AI note-taking is still new, and we're all figuring out the norms together. We've always believed AI should augment you, not replace you, and that means giving you the final say over what gets kept and what gets deleted. This is another way to give you more control. We'll keep building, and keep sharing what we learn along the way.

The latest version of Granola is v6.491.0.

Highlights

Granola won't interrupt your flow anymore

Dante and Mehedi fixed an issue where Granola could steal focus from other apps after a background update – no more interruptions when you're mid-presentation or watching something fullscreen.

New shortcut: paste without formatting

Sometimes you just want plain text. Jonathan added Cmd+Shift+V to paste without any formatting coming along for the ride.

Your notes now paste perfectly into Slack

No more broken headings or weird bullet points – Sam T fixed the issue where formatting would break when pasting notes into Slack.

Clearer error messages when sign-in goes wrong

Sam T added friendly error pages when sign-in hits a snag (like Microsoft permission issues) – you'll now get clear guidance instead of a generic error message.

Other Fixes and Improvements

• Toby made sure meeting dates in summaries always show the correct weekday and time
• Jim improved the shared note experience – the transcript panel now shows a copy button and hides settings you can't change
• Gillian added an "Invited" badge to workspace invite autocomplete, so you can see who you've already invited
• Sam S fixed a bug where clicking in the folder creation modal would accidentally navigate you away
• Dante made the notes editor clickable during summary generation
• Luke fixed dark mode toggle switches to display correctly
• Sam T fixed Notion workspace icons to show properly in integrations settings
• Gillian added a download button to the mobile web experience on notes.granola.ai
• Jack added meeting URLs and better attendee names to the public note API

Today, we're introducing Sign in with Microsoft.

If you use Outlook and Teams at work, Granola will work seamlessly for you:

• You can now create a Granola account using your Microsoft account, or SSO
• You'll see your Outlook calendar events in Granola, and Granola will also recognize the people you're in a meeting with
• Granola has always worked with Teams, but now it'll be even more seamless, because you can join calls directly from your Granola reminder

Just download Granola for Windows or Mac and choose "Sign in with Microsoft" to get started.

New to Granola? Here's how it works

Granola is the AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. Think of it like a clean OneNote notebook, but AI-powered and built for your meetings.

One minute before your Teams call, Granola will remind you about it. Click the notification, and Granola will open automatically too.

You jot rough details (or don't) and Granola captures the rest. At the end of your meeting, Granola enhances your notes with the transcript. You get a beautiful summary you can share with your team in seconds.

Granola runs on your device, not as a bot in your meeting. So there's nothing between you and the people you're talking to, helping you stay present and focused on the conversation.

Your team's searchable second brain

Over time, Granola becomes a little like a second brain. Search across all your Teams meetings and ask questions like "what did Brian say about pricing last week?" or "what's the main thing blocking the deal with Acme, Inc?".

Your whole team can benefit too. Create a shared folder for sales calls or user feedback, and everyone can ask for themes across meetings.

Be more present in every conversation

Because Granola helps you take great notes, you can worry less about them. Which lets you focus on what really matters: having great conversations.

Whether you're on a Teams call with a potential client, giving feedback to a direct report, or brainstorming in a channel meeting, Granola helps you focus on your contribution rather than splitting your attention between note-taking and being present.

Download Granola for free and try it in your next meeting.

Happy New Year! Our first release this year is one of our favorite kinds: papercuts! In the few days before the holiday break, we took a break from building and focused our minds on fixing. Bugs, UI weirdness or niches were all up for grabs.

Taking the time to clear out the cobwebs is an important part of keeping the app feeling fresh, smooth and performant, so we take a day or two to focus on papercuts regularly.

Here's everything we worked on before the holidays, ready for you today:

Highlights

Text editor polish

The text editor got a lot of love: You can now revert headings to regular text by backspacing at the beginning of the line, and more reliably tab to indent bulleted and numbered lists thanks to Toby and Dante. Sam T also worked with Dante to fix some broken backspace behavior in lists.

Chat improvements:

Eddie made it so you can scroll the page while the chat overlay is open, Dante fixed pasting images so it no longer replaces existing attachments, and citations don't duplicate anymore. Jonathan added stripping of citation markers when copying messages.

Smarter regeneration warnings

Sam T added confirmation dialogs before regenerating notes that you've edited, so you won't accidentally lose your changes. You'll also see prompts to regenerate when attendees change or when transcript chunks are deleted, thanks to Jonathan.

Hover over mentions to see attendee details

Dante added attendee cards that appear when you hover over @mentions, showing recent notes and quick actions for that person. Tikhon also added notes and sharing info to a redesigned attendee card in the meeting header.

Other Fixes and Improvements

• Zoom meeting links are now recognized with zoom.com (not just zoom.us), and clicking them opens the Zoom app directly. Thanks to Vicky and Jonathan for these improvements.
• Several Slack integration fixes: Jonathan fixed channel lists for large workspaces, and Sam T fixed sharing not appearing for some notes. Click selection now works in the channel dropdown, and ESC no longer closes your entire note when the Slack dialog is open.
• Calendar sync is more reliable now. Nick and Jonathan made it so temporary errors don't show unnecessary "connect calendar" prompts, Tanya fixed the Connect Calendar button text, and Sam T fixed the reset calendar button.
• Ross added automatic image resizing for chat attachments, so large images are optimized without you having to resize them manually.
• The app looks better on macOS Tahoe thanks to Tikhon fixing the border radius, and the overall color scheme got an update with improved sidebar and notes contrast.
• Window controls and spacing are improved: Dante fixed traffic light position, Nick fixed transcription indicator overlapping the titlebar on narrow windows, and Luke fixed various notification spacing.
• Meetings feel snappier as they no longer re-render when opening chat thanks to Dante, and Luke fixed the AI reasoning timer so it no longer freezes.
• Nick changed the default note title from "Untitled meeting" to "New note" for clarity.
• Dante fixed the app sometimes showing "invalid grant" auth errors, and window focus behavior after auto-updates is now correct.
• Nick hid the share button until your note has a summary, preventing sharing of incomplete notes.
• Prompts to regenerate now appear when you edit raw notes or when more transcription is captured, but only for the note you're working on - not while transcribing a different note. Thanks to Dante for this improvement.
• Luke made multiple UI polish improvements: fixed search bar focus states, long workspace name handling, meeting NUX rounded corners, and navbar icon consistency. Tikhon fixed the sidebar icon animation.
• Onboarding got several polish updates from Dante and Luke: better permissions screen copy, refined focus states, and an overall smoother flow.
• Settings now defaults to the calendar page for new users, making it easier to get set up with your calendars. Thanks to Dante.
• Long attachment filenames now show properly in tooltips, thanks to Matthew.
• Folder permissions are clearer: Eddie made the default folder toggle only show for collaborators, and Vicky fixed the "add to folder" tooltip on read-only notes.
• Dante fixed email autocomplete menus when sharing a note, so dropdowns no longer overlap.
• Matthew fixed the chat editing notice so it no longer overflows its container, and Dante fixed the template editor X button position.
• Jonathan added search filtering for pending invites in the team members list.
• Desktop sign-in now automatically logs you into web thanks to Dante, and Luke added rich previews when sharing invite links.
• Windows users: Dante made the copy link tooltip visible, and Luke added a join meeting option to the tray menu.
• Tikhon fixed LLM-generated titles so they no longer overwrite your custom meeting titles, and Toby swapped in the Claude icon instead of the Anthropic logo when selecting a model in chat.
• Crash fixes: Dante fixed an issue where hovering over citations could crash, and removed a timestamps extension that caused crashes when undoing deletions.
• Luke changed the app font from Inter to SF Pro for a more native macOS feel.
• Sam T fixed an issue with the Raycast extension causing recurring meetings to create blank notes, rather than being meeting-linked.
• A host of other tweaks and changes: fixed the floating chat background gradient, improved document layout spacing, a clearer tooltip on the dictation feature, and nicer overflowing for long attachments in chat.

Today we're introducing a new Granola Labs feature called Heads Up.

It's an easy way to make sure you've told people that you're using Granola. If you use our Google Calendar add-on when scheduling a meeting, all participants will have to click through a new "Heads up I'm using Granola" screen before they join the meeting.

We'd love your feedback on Heads Up. How does it feel to use it? Is there anything you'd do differently? Any bugs or edge cases?

Head to Settings > Labs to get started. Or to learn more about how it works, head to our help center.

The latest version of Granola is v6.442.0.

Highlights

@Mentions are now available to everyone

Dante built @mentions, so now you can mention teammates in your notes using @. When you mention someone, you'll get an option to send them an email notification with a link to the note.

Delete notes and restore them from trash

Accidentally deleted an important note? No problem. Dante added a trash folder in the sidebar, so you can restore or permanently delete your notes.

Connect your calendar directly in the app

Nick streamlined how you connect your calendar, especially for SSO users. Instead of juggling browser tabs during login, you can now connect Google calendars right from the app.

Other Fixes and Improvements

• The meeting event popover got several improvements from Tikhon: you can now change which event a note is attached to, calendar colors are visible in the dropdown, and event suggestions only appear once per document instead of repeatedly
• Granola now suggests events from the past 24 hours when attaching notes, thanks to Sam M
• Eddie and Vicky improved the calendar settings experience with better Outlook error handling and a helpful tooltip on the reset button
• Opening notes feels snappier after Nyal fixed a brief flicker effect
• Matt P redesigned the trial upgrade modal with clearer benefits and a fresh look
• Several meeting header improvements: Tikhon fixed the join button color and made the attendees button load faster, while Ross simplified the header by removing a redundant indicator
• Sharing links now copy to your clipboard faster, thanks to Robert
• Dante added a search bar to the People and Companies view, making it easier to find contacts
• Luke and Mehedi squashed several modal-related bugs: onboarding screens no longer overlap with other dialogs, which meant neither one could be clicked
• Account management got some polish from Sam T and Dante: there's now a confirmation step before deletion
• Dante made it so you can now press Escape to return to the homescreen from a note, even while it's transcribing
• Jonathan fixed an issue where special characters in transcriptions could cause problems
• Sam T fixed an issue where notes linked to calendar events could be auto-deleted incorrectly
• Robert fixed a crash that could occur in the notification system
• Mathew fixed old toast notifications that could linger when switching between documents
• Sam T fixed filtering of meetings without attendees in the tray
• Jonathan and Tanya made various styling fixes for chips, avatars, and dark mode

The latest version of Granola is v6.399.0.

Highlights

Smarter calendar event suggestions

Seeing and managing calendar context in a meeting is smoother now — Tikhon rebuilt the calendar event UI and added a new event suggestions popover, and Mehedi fixed an issue where event date/time text could wrap awkwardly.

See how much time is left in your current meeting

Dante improved the menu bar so now it shows how much time is left in an ongoing meeting (like "10m left").

Inviting teammates and sharing notes is smoother

Dante made it easier to add multiple people at once — whether you're inviting teammates to your workspace or sharing a note, you can now paste comma-separated email addresses. Jonathan also made the invite modal clearer and less distracting.

A cleaner workspace switcher

Mehedi cleaned up the workspace switcher, so if you're in more than three, there's now a "See more" button.

Other Fixes and Improvements

• Past calendar events no longer show up in Coming Up — Eddie fixed a bug where they could still appear.
• Luke refreshed the navigation icons for a cleaner look.
• Sharing to Slack is more consistent — Sam T fixed an issue where Slack formatting could break when there were trailing spaces.
• When a user first signs up, text is now easier to read in dark mode because Luke adjusted the colors shown in the onboarding flow.

Today, we're dropping a little surprise into your Granola app. It's called Crunched. It's a celebration of your year, as told by your meeting notes.

We know it's a little cliche; it feels like every software company has one. They're usually a warm, beautiful presentation of cold, hard data, perfectly shareable insights based on your activity on their platforms. What does listening to 4,204 hours of Taylor Swift say about you? How did running 405 kilometers affect your fitness?

But… what if we could do something new?

Meetings are where you have ideas, make decisions, get things done.

So we built Crunched. A celebration of your year, drawn from your notes. And because it's Granola, every single Crunched will be different. Your meetings, your own personal Crunched.

Get yours in the Granola app for Mac or PC today.

Building Crunched

We didn't just want to show you lots of stats. We wanted to reflect your 2025 back to you. A year is a long time and you (probably?) got a lot done. Let's celebrate that!

We had lots of questions to answer: how do we build the infrastructure to support the Crunched experience at scale? What are the perfect prompts to get the experience just right? What insights would you find actually interesting, and shareable? How could we design the experience to feel fun? You'll hear more about these questions over the next week.

We also built Crunched in a way that should feel personal to you. Your Granola is yours: you tell us all the time how it feels like an intimate notepad for you and your meetings. Crunched respects this: only you can see your Crunched. You can choose to share insights from it if you'd like – and we hope you do – but it's ultimately just for you.

We hope you like Crunched as much as we enjoyed making it

We've had a lot of fun reading our own over the last few weeks, and tweaking the experience to make it feel just right for you.

We built Granola for people who value progress over process. For folks who are doing things that matter, one meeting at a time. So we hope Crunched helps chart your journey in 2025, helps you recall a few great things you got done this year and even makes you giggle a bit.

It's been a wonderful year at Granola: our small team grew by almost 100%, still based in the heart of Shoreditch, London. There are more people than ever using Granola today too. Yet it still feels like we're just getting started.

A very happy holidays from all of us at Granola, and we hope you have a wonderful, fruitful 2026.

Helpful prompts to get more done

Chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude don't know what you're working on, so it's often a pain to get genuinely useful results from them.

Today, we're announcing the next major version of Granola to solve this problem.

Say hello to Recipes, in the all-new Granola Chat.

Recipes combine AI prompts with your real work context, so AI actually does useful things for you. You call them up in the upgraded, easier-to-use Granola Chat by typing "/".

And because your meetings, conversations and notes are where lots of work happens, Granola Chat and Recipes can be surprisingly useful.

We've partnered with some of the best minds in their fields, to give you great Recipes from day one.

Today, we're launching with Recipes written by Lenny Rachitsky, Matt Mochary, Ridd, and lots of other experts. So now you can write a PRD based on your product brainstorms, get coached based on your 1:1s or give thoughtful feedback based on design crits.

We've also created dozens ourselves to help with the everyday jobs we all do at work.

Here are some examples:

• "Coach me" on how I show up at work, using feedback embedded in my conversations.
• "Prep me" before a meeting, pulling context from past calls.
• "Write a brief" from a brainstorm or strategy discussion.
• "Improve our sales process" by analyzing sales meetings for patterns.

And of course, you can create your own Recipes, share them with colleagues, or keep them private.

How Recipes work

Until now, using AI at work has felt mostly generic. Models are capable of incredible things, but without context they can't reflect the nuance of your work. And even the best prompts fall flat if you have to re-explain your background every time.

Recipes solve both problems at once, by:

• Bringing context: your conversations, where the latest work is actually happening.
• Bringing expertise: prompts designed by people who know what great output looks like (or, by you — the expert in your own workflow!).

The result is something that feels genuinely new: a private AI that not only understands you at work but also helps you make decisions, draft documents and be better prepared.

Our tools matter

Our tools matter

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."

– John M. Culkin

The way we build AI into our work matters. We founded Granola because we believe this is a unique moment in history, where new tools will shape how millions of us work for years to come.

When we launched last year, we shared how we see Granola as a "steering wheel for LLMs" — an easy way to drive powerful AI models that can sometimes feel hard to drive.

Recipes are the next step in this journey: proven prompts paired with the context of your conversations, so you can truly get more done with AI that understands you and your work.

They're available now in Granola Chat. We can't wait to see what you do with them!

A new place for shared notes

Most of our work happens in conversations. And not just the ones we're in ourselves.

A teammate has a call with a customer. A colleague meets with a supplier. A manager interviews a candidate. Even if you weren't in the room, those conversations matter to the work you're doing together.

Until now, staying in the loop meant asking someone to copy/paste their notes into Slack, watching a recording or catching up second-hand. That's work. And often, the details get lost.

Now there's an easier way – in just a click.

Starting today, whenever someone shares a note with you in Granola, it'll show up in a new view: Shared with me (that's right – no more opening in the browser if you have Granola installed already!).

Open your sidebar, and you'll see everything that's been shared with you, all in one place. No digging through browser tabs or email threads.

One click to share

Sharing works the way you'd expect. Open any note, click "share," and add someone's email.

• If they use Granola, the note shows up instantly in their "Shared with me."
• If not, they'll get an email with the notes.

Shared notes, woven into your conversations

Notes shared with you don't just live in their own section. They also appear alongside your own notes in People and Companies views.

That means you can follow the full thread of conversations with a customer, supplier, or candidate — even if some of those conversations weren't yours.

No extra effort, no missing context. Just a clearer picture of the relationships you're building together.

And they make Ask Granola even more powerful

And because shared notes are part of your Granola, they're also part of Ask Granola.

You can ask questions about conversations you didn't attend, get a summary of a teammate's call, or spot themes across the notes your team has shared.

It's like having the collective memory of your team's conversations, searchable and ready when you need it.