Catalog Systems Voice-first / wearable AI memory Granola

Granola

https://www.granola.ai

Mac/iOS app (no hardware). Captures meeting audio via system-audio tap (no bot joining); generates notes from your shorthand + audio. Local audio processing claim; cloud for summaries. Enterprise tier opts out of model training.

Active · Verified 2026-10-23 · fresh as of 2026-10-23 · 72 cited facts, 6 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
Mac/iOS meeting notepad — system-audio tap vendor fix
Tier
T1
Section
Voice-first / wearable AI memory
Created
2023-05 vendor fix
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS fix
License
not applicable — not OSS fix
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
Pricing
Basic $0; Business $14/user/mo; Enterprise $35/user/mo vendor fix
Funding
total $192M ($125M Series C at $1.5B led by Index Ventures/Kleiner Perkins, Mar 2026) third-party fix
Freshness
2026-10-23 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
commercial vendor fix
Deployment locus
cloud vendor fix
Platform vs product
product vendor fix
Accelerator
ai-grant third-party fix

Memory taxonomy

storage
file
retrieval
extraction-pull
persistence
long-term
update
append-only
unit
episode
governance
user-controllable
conflict
append

When to use

Optimised for: always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX

Anti-fit: not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows

Pros & cons

Pros

Captures system audio without joining as a meeting bot — works for any meeting tool without admin rules; enterprise tier opts out of model training.

Cons

Mac/iOS only — no Windows/Linux story; cloud processing despite local-audio claim.

Claims & capabilities

$43M raised at $250M valuation (May 2025). "AI notepad for back-to-back meetings." Free (25 lifetime), Individual $18/mo, Business $14/user/mo, Enterprise $35+/user/mo.

Technical surface

API surface
searched not found
Backend storage
custom
Deployment
Managed-only
Embedding model
locked
Multi-tenancy
hard-isolation
MCP
yes — official Granola MCP server on all tiers (Basic: last 30 days of personal notes; Business/Enterprise: workspace notes, admin controls)
A2A
searched not found
OpenTelemetry
no — consumer product

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  • Era Computer T5

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  • Friend T1

    Pendant necklace (~2 inches). Always-on listening feeds a persistent AI companion persona. Companionship-framed rather than productivity / recall. Cloud LLM backend; no detailed encryption claims.

  • Limitless T1

    Former Rewind/Limitless lifelog (Pendant wearable + screen/audio capture with timeline search). Acquired by Meta (2025-12); Pendant no longer sold as of 2025-12-05, service withdrawn from the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea and Turkey on 2025-12-05, desktop/web recording ended and Rewind capture disabled from 2025-12-19; existing Pendant customers supported throughout 2026.

  • Memories.ai LVMM 2.0 / Project LUCI T2

    Developer-first reference platform for AI wearables. LVMM 2.0 captures visual data through video, encodes it into frames on-device, and stores moments as searchable memories; companion app surfaces past conversations/decisions/experiences. Hardware-level security via Qualcomm partnership; cloud sync for enterprise tiers.

  • Omi T1

    Wearable orb (necklace or clip) with open-source hardware + firmware. Continuous audio capture; real-time GPT-4o transcription; searchable memory graph. Supports app screen capture too. Hybrid privacy: cloud by default (SOC 2/HIPAA/AES-256), full local/self-hosted available under MIT.

Sources (71 cited facts, 6 third-party)

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What changed

Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)

  1. 2026-10-22
    • Pricing “Free + paid” → “Basic $0; Business $14/user/mo; Enterprise $35/user/mo” source
    • Funding / ownership “$192M total $1.5B val Series C · 2026-03” → “total $192M ($125M Series C at $1.5B led by Index Ventures/Kleiner Perkins, Mar 2026)” source
    • MCP support first recorded as “yes — official Granola MCP server on all tiers (Basic: last 30 days of personal notes; Business/Enterprise: workspace notes, admin controls)” source
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Related systems

Referenced by (1)

  • Arcade.dev integrates with — Arcade docs have a Granola integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)