Granola

Granola

This tool feeds your Cowork workspace. After a meeting, save the summary to your Projects/ folder in Cowork. Claude can read it and act on it: drafting follow-ups, extracting action items, updating briefs.

Granola records and transcribes your meetings automatically. You join your call as normal. Granola runs in the background on your Mac. After the call, you get a clean summary with action items, decisions, and follow-ups.

Cost: AED 51/month

What Granola does

  • Records system audio during any call (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, phone)
  • Transcribes in real time
  • Generates a structured meeting summary automatically
  • Connects to Claude via MCP, so Claude can read your notes and act on them

Setup

  1. Download Granola from granola.ai
  2. Grant microphone and screen recording permissions when prompted
  3. Granola runs in your menu bar. It starts recording automatically when you join a call.
  4. After the call, open Granola to review the summary. Edit anything that needs correcting.

No configuration needed. It works immediately.

Why this matters for Adam Bike

Supplier calls, team meetings, customer consultations: a lot of decisions happen in calls and nothing gets written down properly. Granola fixes that. After a call with a bike supplier in the Netherlands, you have a transcript and a summary with action items in two minutes.

Granola connects to Claude via MCP (Model Context Protocol). After a meeting, Claude can read your Granola notes and help you act on them.

Example prompts after a meeting

After a supplier callReview my Granola notes from today's supplier call. Summarize the key decisions. Draft a follow-up email confirming the agreed delivery dates and pricing.
After a team meetingRead my Granola notes from this morning's team meeting. Extract all action items and who is responsible for each. Format as a checklist I can paste into WhatsApp.

MCP connection

To connect Granola to Claude, add the Granola MCP connector in Claude Desktop settings. Once connected, Claude can access your meeting notes directly without you copying and pasting.

Go to: Claude Desktop settings, then Connectors, then search for Granola. Follow the instructions to authorize access.

After connecting, you can just ask Claude: “What did we decide in my last supplier meeting?” and it will find and read the relevant notes.