Granola AI Notetaker 2026: Buyer's Guide & Team Setup

Chapter 1: The Bot-Free Notetaker Shift: Why Granola Exists in 2026 Somewhere around 2023, the meeting bot became a fact of professional life. You would join a call and there it would be: a little rectangle in the participant list with a name like "Otter.ai Notetaker" or "Fireflies Assistant," sitting silently in the corner, recording everyone. Clients started asking about it. Legal teams started writing policies about it. And on the calls that actually mattered — the pricing negotiation, the difficult performance conversation, the investor check-in — people quietly stopped talking as freely. That friction is the reason the granola...