Granola
Product#6 trending in AI & Tech this week · most on The a16z Show
Granola is an AI meeting-notes application designed for back-to-back meetings. It captures meeting audio and combines it with the user's notes to produce structured notes, summaries, action items, and searchable meeting memory, without requiring a meeting bot to join the call.
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0.3‰ of what listeners heard
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- Neutral 4
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Mentions of Granola per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, ai & tech.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | 0.29‰ | 1 |
| Sep 2 | 0.53‰ | 1 |
| Sep 3 | 0.69‰ | 1 |
| Sep 12 | 0.57‰ | 2 |
| Sep 21 | 0.18‰ | 1 |
| Sep 29 | 0.22‰ | 1 |
| Oct 1 | 0.39‰ | 1 |
| Oct 2 | 0.74‰ | 2 |
| Oct 4 | 0.97‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 1.30‰ | 2 |
| Oct 6 | 1.35‰ | 1 |
Why is it trending?· Last 7 days
Granola appears in debates over productivity tools, privacy, and AI adoption
The a16z Show places Granola among developer, productivity, and creative tools overrepresented among top personal AI spenders, alongside tools used to build, make, and sell.[1]
Bloomberg Tech similarly groups Granola with general productivity products that organize and distribute AI-related work, arguing consumer products need work-related use to make money while model costs remain high.[2]
On The a16z Show, Vladimir Keil says companies may use tools like Granola for video recordings but are not necessarily deploying agents or automating work.[3]
TBPN presents a contrasting argument: Sigil Wen says users are unsubscribing from Granola and similar services because on-device, private alternatives can avoid sending data to a data center.[4]
The AI Daily Brief mentions Granola only in sponsor announcements, so those appearances do not add a substantive product argument.[5][6]
Sources · 6 moments
- 1.The a16z Show · The Top 100 Consumer AI Apps: Who’s Actually Paying?Olivia Moore · Oct 5 · Listen at 16:37 ↗
“personal basis. And probably unsurprisingly, it was mostly developer tools, productivity tools, creative tools, things used to like build, make, sell, things like N8N, Granola, Higgsfield, Manus. Those all were way overrepresented amongst t”
- 2.Bloomberg Tech · OpenAI, DeepSeek Chase Billions as AI Funding Boom Rolls OnEd Ludlow · Oct 6 · Listen at 48:22 ↗
“you're seeing things on there like Runway, like Kling. Higgsfield is a really big one. And then the last category is just general productivity. How do you organize and distribute all that work that you're doing with AI now? So things like G”
- 3.The a16z Show · Why AI Agents Can Beat the IncumbentsVladimir Keil · Oct 2 · Listen at 45:10 ↗
“of the procurement side. But what we are now seeing are those suppliers for those Fortune 500 companies, This actually is not true. So they are like maybe advanced in like, let's say, video recordings and like using tools like Granola and a”
- 4.TBPN · AI Video Game Mods, Should You Sell Your Data, Bryan Johnson on Endurance Racing | Sean Frank, Linda Du, Ali Partovi, Sigil Wen, Jerry Wu, Bryan JohnsonSigil Wen · Oct 5 · Listen at 2:12:01 ↗
“Um, and so I'm, I'm pushing builds and improving it, and we'll be able to do everything that, you know, Instinct and— and like, you know, it's— it already— users have already been unsubscribing from like WhisperFlow, Granola, uh, Superhuman”
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