I've used Granola in meetings for a while. Wiring it into my AI agent is what finally unlocked it.
I set up my OpenClaw agent to automatically read every meeting I'm in, extracts action items, posts summaries to Slack, and gives me a daily briefing at 8am with my priorities.
Heres how it works:
1. Granola transcribes my meetings locally on my MacBook. No cloud, no API, just a local file. More secure, nothing exposed to the internet.
2. My AI agent (Ace) polls every 30 min from a separate machine (my Mac Mini) over a private Tailscale tunnel.
3. Pulls the raw transcript via SSH. Not Granola's AI summary, the actual transcript file. Granola has great speaker tagging, not great summaries.
4. Agent generates his own summary with strict rules to prevent hallucinations. Every action item gets verified against the transcript before he posts.
5. Extracts action items with owners, due dates, and priority then feeds them into a central tracker.
6. Posts to Slack automatically. Team meetings go through an approval gate so I review before anything goes public. Just started this and its working nicely.
7. Agent follows up with teammates as a thread reply to the action items post, making sure no balls are dropped.
8. Morning briefing at 8 AM. Whats due today, whats overdue, what I'm waiting on from others.
Key learning was Granola has no API or export for transcriptions. But the data lives locally on disk. So my agent just reads the file directly over SSH.
No copy-pasting. No manual note-taking. No worrying you forgot to do that one thing.
Granola + OpenClaw + Tailscale = fully automated meeting ops.