Unwrapped

Teardown · granola

GRANOLA

GRANOLA

CategoryMeeting notesLast round · $20M · 2024Site ↗
  • Lightspeed
  • Sequoia Capital

Calendar audio + meeting transcripts + LLM APIs + note editor.

01

Public data / API layer

Device audio (microphone)
Device audio (microphone)Yours
Google Calendar API
Google Calendar APIAPI
Microsoft Graph Calendar API
Microsoft Graph Calendar APIAPI
Customer meeting transcripts
Customer meeting transcriptsYours

Internal replication score

Easy
0.87

Feasibility of a useful internal substitute built with Claude (or similar), the same data access, and light agent logic — not rebuilding the whole product.

IRS = 0.30·D + 0.25·L + 0.20·O + 0.15·R + 0.10·Sthis record · 87%
  • D

    Data accessibility

    weight 0.300.95
    • 1.0mostly customer-owned / public / standard third-party sources
    • 0.5mixed accessibility
    • 0.0hard-to-access or proprietary source layer
  • L

    LLM substitutability

    weight 0.250.85
    • 1.0mostly retrieve / prompt / cite / summarize / classify / compare
    • 0.5mixed standard + custom behavior
    • 0.0strongly custom model behavior (fine-tunes on proprietary data, etc.)
  • O

    Output simplicity

    weight 0.200.90
    • 1.0straightforward internal work product (memo, list, reply, SQL query)
    • 0.5moderately specialized
    • 0.0highly specialized (e.g. FDA-graded clinical text)
  • R

    Review / risk tolerance

    weight 0.150.85
    • 1.0internal use with human review is acceptable
    • 0.5moderate risk
    • 0.0very low tolerance for error (e.g. external legal filings)
  • S

    Surface complexity

    weight 0.10inverse — higher means less surface dependence0.60
    • 1.0a simple internal shell is enough
    • 0.5polished workflow matters somewhat
    • 0.0product surface / rollout / trust posture is central to value
LabelsEasy ≥ 0.67Medium ≥ 0.34Hard < 0.34

Missing factor rows use heuristics from wrapper scores. Editorial heuristic, not investment advice.

Build it yourself

Recreate the workflow inside your org.

Internal build

Build it yourself

Same local audio + transcription API + Claude on transcript + note template — requires manual setup and no integrations.

Internal use only. Replacing them in-market is a different bar than replaying the useful workflow inside your org.

01 · Connectors & flow

Device audio (microphone)
Device audio (microphone)
Google Calendar API
Google Calendar API
Microsoft Graph Calendar API
Microsoft Graph Calendar API
Customer meeting transcripts
Customer meeting transcripts

Internal build map

Data in

Connectors
Connectors

Agent layer

Planner
Tools + retrieval
Reasoning model

Logic

LLM API
transcribe
retrieve
enhance
template
cite
not custom weights

Outputs

Internal search
Answer
Citations

02 · Claude / agent prompt

Paste as the system or developer message in Claude (or your agent runtime). Scroll to read; Copy grabs the full text.

Claude / agent prompt

// Meeting note enhancement agent You are a meeting notes assistant inside [YOUR_COMPANY]. You help team members create structured, actionable meeting notes using ONLY the meeting transcript and any brief notes they've written. ## What you must do 1. Retrieve first: You receive a raw transcript and any bullet points the user typed during the meeting. Start by reading both fully. 2. Enhance structure: Expand the user's notes into organized sections matching their preferred template (key takeaways, action items, decisions, next steps, participant insights). 3. Cite rigorously: Every claim in the enhanced notes must reference specific parts of the transcript. Use speaker names and approximate timestamps where possible. 4. Surface conflicts: If the transcript shows disagreement or uncertainty, call it out explicitly in the notes. 5. Scope: Only document what was actually said. Do not add context, background research, or assumptions about what people meant. ## What you are not You are not a replacement for attending the meeting or taking your own notes. You enhance what the user captures, you do not generate notes from scratch. All notes are for internal use only and require human review before sharing externally. ## Refusal If the transcript is missing, unintelligible, or too short to be useful, ask the user to provide a clearer recording or more complete notes. If asked to create notes without user input during the meeting, explain that you enhance existing notes rather than generating them independently. ## Safety These notes are internal working documents. Do not share meeting notes outside [YOUR_TEAM] without explicit permission from all participants. Flag any discussion of confidential topics, financial numbers, or personnel decisions for human review before distribution.

03 · Result

What were the main action items from today's sales call?
Meeting transcript sections 14:22-16:30

Three action items: schedule demos with top 3 vendors, get pricing quotes for 100+ users, check references from similar companies.