Can Grok Bot build Granola?
it builds, but you host it, babysit it, or wire up an OAuth app yourself.
- price
- $14/mo
- you'd save
- $168/yr
- who hosts it
- you do
- category
- meeting notes
The pipeline is not the problem: record, transcribe with Whisper, summarise with a model, save a markdown file. That's an afternoon. The problem is where the microphone is. Granola's trick is capturing your Mac's system audio while you sit in the meeting, and a bot living on a Linux box in a data centre is not in your meeting. It can build you the app, and it can host the processing, but the recorder has to run on your laptop with your permissions granted by your hands. That handoff is the whole gap.
the prompt
Written for a bot that already has a browser, a terminal and your logins · paste it in whole.
You have a computer, a browser and my logins, but you are not on my laptop - so build this in two halves and be honest with me about the seam. Half one, runs on MY Mac (you write it, I install it): - A menu bar app with Start/Stop. Records system audio plus mic to a local file. - On stop, uploads the audio to your machine over HTTPS with a shared secret from the env, then deletes its local copy once the upload is confirmed. - Ship me a README that says exactly which macOS permissions I have to grant, and where to click. Half two, runs on YOUR machine: - Receives the audio, transcribes with whisper.cpp using the medium model, locally. No transcription API unless I say so - these are private meetings. - Summarises with an LLM into: five bullets, decisions made, action items with owners. - Writes ~/MeetingNotes/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.md over to my Dropbox, summary on top, full transcript below a divider. Rules: - Delete the audio from your machine once the note is written. Confirm the deletion in the log. - Never send a transcript anywhere except the summarising model and my Dropbox. - Before I trust this: record a two minute test with me, show me the note, and show me the audio is gone. Running it: keep half two up and listening. If an upload arrives and processing fails, keep the audio and tell me - do not silently drop a meeting.
the bot will need to sign into: dropbox
what you lose
- the bot can't press record for you - the capture runs on your machine
- sync between laptop and phone
- automatic calendar joins and meeting context
- note templates somebody spent a year tuning
the numbers
Business is $14/user/mo, Enterprise $35. The free Basic plan is unlimited meetings but keeps only limited history, which is the nudge.
granola.ai/pricingchecked against the live page on 2026-08-23