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AI News: These Google Updates Are Dividing PeopleMatt Wolfe22 May 2026
New briefs feature researches meeting participants, such as via LinkedIn, before a call to prepare you. Creator uses Granola for meeting notes.
Granola feature that prepares a pre-meeting Brief for external meetings from calendar data and past conversations.
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Granola Briefs at a glance
- What is Granola Briefs?
- Granola Briefs is an app from Granola. Granola feature that prepares a pre-meeting Brief for external meetings from calendar data and past conversations.
- Who makes Granola Briefs?
- Granola Briefs is made by Granola.
- Does Granola Briefs work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Granola is offered as downloadable apps with no regional restriction shown on its pages, and a DPA is listed as available on the pricing page. No explicit EU data residency statement was found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Granola Briefs cost?
- Freemium. Granola has a free Basic plan (30 days of meeting history), Business at $14 and Enterprise at $35 (per user, presumably monthly). The pricing page lists pre-meeting briefs in the comparison table, but the plan breakdown is unclear from the extracted text. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was Granola Briefs shown?
- In 1 creator video by Matt Wolfe. Most recently by Matt Wolfe on 22 May 2026, at 41:24 in “AI News: These Google Updates Are Dividing People”.
Sources: the vendor's own pages (linked above) and creator videos at the linked timestamps. EU status is information, not legal advice; see how we check.
About
Briefs is a feature of Granola, an AI notepad for meetings that transcribes device audio without joining calls as a bot. Granola syncs with the user's calendar and, before each external meeting, prepares a Brief covering who is attending, what was discussed in previous meetings, and what matters now. A YouTube creator described it as researching meeting participants (for example via LinkedIn) ahead of a call.
Briefs sits alongside Granola's in-meeting note-taking, post-meeting summaries and action items, and chat across meeting history. Granola is available on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. According to the pricing page, pre-meeting briefs are listed in the plan comparison under Capture & Notes; the extracted text does not make clear which plan tiers include them, so check the pricing page.
Briefs is aimed at people with many back-to-back external meetings, such as sales, recruiting or client-facing roles. It depends on calendar integration and on prior meeting notes held in Granola for context.
Key features
- Automatic Brief before external meetings, generated from calendar events
- Summarizes attendees and prior discussions
- Draws on past Granola meeting notes for context
- Works with bot-free, device-audio capture across Zoom, Meet and Teams
- Part of Granola apps on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android
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