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Design Engineering Night 7 @ Granola HQ.

...so i've been given creative control over some social video stuff

This is happening! Personal Agents Demo Night, April 9 at @meetgranola HQ 🇬🇧 If you're building in personal AI or just want to see where we're headed - this is the evening. Co-hosted with @ZoComputer, in town from New York.

@K2_181 @meetgranola that sounds like a terrible experience - there haven't been any changes to the prompt/model in that time, but there's one incoming which I'd love to get your feedback on - always appreciate hearing from people with high standards for their notes, it's how ours get better

@JoBarrow @meetgranola It seems to missing big chunks of the conversation in its summary. Till about 10d ago I hardly would edit the generated notes. In the last week I've had to review and hand edit pretty much every time. It was also picking up wrong conclusions from the discussions.

Is it just me or have @meetgranola meeting summaries gotten much worse recently. The transcripts are still good. Makes me feel like they switched models.

engineers, CX, content, product and sales right now but more coming, we do sponsor visas, we don't work remotely granola.ai/jobs

and we are still hiring for loads of roles in London and SF!

@crisnochris ah nothing remote unfortunately, we're five days a week in-office in both our offices for now

@JoBarrow Any remote nyc opps?

@parthgupta2008 always looking for talented designers! if there's not a specific role open currently, we search our talent pool regularly when opening new positions jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola/5199bc…

@JoBarrow Any roles for designers?

tiny detail in our series c announcement - you can now generate a personal @meetgranola API key for easier programmatic and agent access to notes, transcripts, and summaries

There are some tweets out there saying that Granola is trying to lock down access to your data. Tldr; we are actually trying to become more open, not closed. We’re launching a public API next week to complement our MCP. Read on for context. A couple months ago, we noticed that some folks had reversed engineered our local cache so they could access their meeting data. Our cache was not built for this (it can change at any point), so we launched our MCP to serve this need. The MCP gives full access to your notes and transcripts (all time for paid users, time restricted for free users). MCP usage has exploded since launch, so we felt good about it. A week ago, we updated how we store data in our cache and broke the workarounds. This is on us. Stupidly, we thought we had solved these use cases well enough with our MCP. We’ve now learned that while MCPs are great for connecting to tools like Claude or chatGPT, they don’t meet your needs for agents running locally or for data export / pipeline work. So we’re going to fix this for you ASAP. First, we’ll launch a public API next week to make it easier for you to pull your data. Second, we’ll figure out how to make Granola work better for agents running locally. Whether that’s expanding our MCP, launching a CLI, a local API, etc. The industry is moving quickly here, so we’d appreciate your suggestions. We want Granola data to be accessible and useful wherever you need it. Stay tuned.

@theshre can't tell you how jealous I am shre!!!!!

That Fred again x Thomas Bangalter set was something else

So much context gets created in a meeting - how do you surface it without overwhelming? When do you interrupt vs. stay quiet? What does it even look like when AI is doing the work around your work? The designers at @meetgranola are working in a wide open territory, it's a great role with a great team - join!

@loekbosman @cjpedregal @meetgranola hey! that must be annoying - can you send an email to hey@granola.so with the details of the meeting so we can look into what's happening for you?

@cjpedregal @meetgranola It’s already on auto

hey @meetgranola - when I meet in Dutch, everyone speaks dutch, notes are in Dutch, why are the notes generated in English?

thrilled about this one, it finally looks like how it feels to use

@theshre @IniAbiodun @meetgranola @MindaugasLT @Lovable i think the chairs have a fan shre! that's such a cool thing to build, we love the chairs too (trying to see how many we can fit into the office!)

@IniAbiodun @meetgranola @MindaugasLT @Lovable @JoBarrow you have a fan

I went to a London Creative AI Night at @meetgranola last week and spotted this chairs poster. Became obsessed with learning about loads of chairs and their lore. @MindaugasLT and I built it live in @Lovable at an event on Thursday. It was a nice start. I spent my weekend rebuilding it to my liking. At dinner tonight, I recognised one of the chairs design (Thonet No. 14), pulled up the site and we all ended up yapping about chairs for a while. Tickled me greatly.

Happy to announce first Design Engineering Night of the year! 29th of January at Granola HQ. Once again we have exciting line up of speakers: 1️⃣ @smee_leee, Product Designer @figma 2️⃣ ​@doctorbaytas, Design Engineer @attio 3️⃣ @mlfrg, Co-founder of firaresearch.com 👉 RSVP: luma.com/rh62hzkp 👈 Cannot wait to see you all!

@hamzahc1 @meetgranola hahaha that was the mood in the office on launch day too

@JoBarrow @meetgranola Loved this! I was prepared for something terrible and absolutely loved it

how do you get AI to celebrate someone's year without psychoanalysing them, glazing them, or accidentally reminding them of the worst parts of it? I wrote about writing the prompts for @meetgranola Crunched 2025 granola.ai/blog/how-we-wr…

@a_jfedor @meetgranola 💚 this is the only metric that matters

@JoBarrow @meetgranola Mine was excellent, I was in tears laughing.

@baileebuilds @meetgranola haha let me know what you get! recipes.granola.ai/r/f41087ce-d45…

@JoBarrow @meetgranola Fascinating and nailed it - except I must say I would love to bite that dog breed I am in meetings.