Turn meeting conversations into actionable insights instantly.
What is Grain?
Grain is developed by a San Francisco-based company of the same name, founded by engineers and product thinkers focused on solving meeting inefficiencies. The product leverages a proprietary AI model engineered specifically for speech recognition and natural language processing in conversational contexts, ensuring high accuracy in transcription and analysis within noisy or multi-speaker meeting environments. Its key capabilities include automated recording, transcription, and generation of summarized notes, highlights, and actionable clips. It is designed for customer-facing teams, such as sales, customer success, and product managers, to capture insights from client conversations without manual notetaking. By integrating directly with video conferencing platforms like Zoom and Google Meet, Grain impacts business workflows by creating searchable archives of customer interactions, which improves deal cycles and customer understanding. For teams evaluating similar tools, a comparison of meeting assistants can be found at https://ai-plaza.io/ai/meeting-assistants. According to a TechCrunch report on the company’s funding, Grain’s approach aims to “help companies retain more information from their customer interactions” (source: TechCrunch).
Key Findings
- Meeting Summaries: Condenses lengthy discussions into concise, actionable notes for easy team reference and follow-up.
- Action Items: Automatically identifies and extracts key tasks and decisions from any recorded meeting conversation.
- Conversation Search: Instantly finds specific moments and topics across all past meetings using natural language queries.
- Speaker Identification: Labels each participant in the transcript for clear attribution of comments and action owners.
- Team Collaboration: Allows members to highlight, comment, and share key moments directly within the meeting transcript.
- Platform Integration: Seamlessly connects with popular video conferencing and productivity tools like Zoom and Google Meet.
- Secure Storage: Keeps all your meeting data encrypted and protected with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls.
- Insight Analytics: Reveals meeting patterns, participation trends, and topic frequency to improve team communication habits.
- Instant Recording: Automatically captures and transcribes meetings in real-time from your calendar with a single click.
- Custom Highlights: Enables users to create and save personalized clip reels of the most important meeting moments.
Who is it for?
Entrepreneur
- Business plan drafting
- Competitor analysis
- Investor pitch creation
- Market trend summarization
- Email campaign ideation
Marketing Manager
- Campaign report analysis
- Social media content calendar
- Ad copy variations
- Customer persona development
- SEO keyword strategy
Content Creator
- Blog post outlining
- Video script writing
- Newsletter content ideation
- Product description writing
- Social media captions
Pricing
Free @ $0/mo
- Unlimited meetings
- 1 notetaker seat
- Basic AI notes
- Unlimited viewer seats
- Collaborative workspace
- Desktop Capture
Starter @ $15/mo
- Advanced AI notes
- Custom AI prompts
- Admin controls
- 1 team
- Slack integration
- Productboard integration
Business @ $29/mo
- HubSpot integration
- Salesforce integration
- Unlimited teams
- Custom AI follow-up email
- AI coaching
- Trackers
Enterprise @ Contact sales/one-time
- SAML-based SSO
- Priority API support
- Custom invoices
- Dedicated CS manager