The Three Stack Series: Granola AI for your morning
You’ve sat through them. The meeting ends, everyone nods, and three days later, half the room has a different recollection of "next steps" or "who owns what." Your critical decisions and action items, the very purpose of meeting, scribbled notes or info evaporated into thin air. The myth is that you need a dedicated note-taker. The reality is you need an automated intelligence system.
Tools like Granola (free version available) are your automated corporate memory. They capture every spoken word, distill the key decisions, and identify action items with surprising accuracy. It’s about amplifying human commitment by ensuring that every agreement, every assigned task, and every client commitment is instantly recorded and accessible for strategic delivery.
The blueprint for this automated recall is simple:
- The Ear & Brain (Granola AI): Granola listens and extracts all decisions and deadlines.
- The Data Transporter (Make.com): Make.com triggers, acting as the automation bridge to pull that structured intelligence.
- The Action Hub (Airtable): Airtable instantly updates a specific record, be it a client project, CRM interactions or a task board, injecting the context and commitments into the relevant fields.
This stack ensures that the moment your meeting concludes, the context, commitments, and critical next steps are not only recorded but are actionable within your project management system. Your job is no longer deciphering notes; it's delivering on intelligence. The ultimate value isn't just in saving time; it's in eliminating post-meeting ambiguity and directly increasing your team's accountability. Now, when someone asks, "Who was going to handle that by Tuesday?", you don't need to guess.
Brad Rae, Director
P.S. Your success is only as scalable as your underlying system.