Comparing AI meeting recorders
Autessa Meeting Recorder as a Granola alternative
Granola is an AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. It listens through your device, joins no call as a bot, keeps notes private by default and deletes audio after transcription. Autessa Meeting Recorder is the team option: a named bot that keeps the recording, emails every participant a recap and shares a clean page with guests.
Big Picture
Acme wants a May pilot so procurement can sign this quarter. Main open item is the mobile rollout for field teams.
Highlights
- Pilot start agreed for May.
- Security review is the only blocker to signature.
Action Items by Person
Goal for Next Call
Confirm pilot scope and the mobile rollout plan.
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Where Autessa wins
The recording itself
Keep the video or audio with the transcript and summary, so anyone can go back to what was actually said.
Everyone gets the notes
A recap with a personal link reaches every participant automatically, with nothing to remember after the call.
Built for the team
Shared bots have access levels, and each meeting has legal hold and a retention purge you can tune.
More than a template
Rewrite the summary prompt per bot, then ask Autobot for new steps, fields or agents after every meeting, down to the code.
Agents with full history
The Autessa MCP gives your agents every meeting as data and lets them send a bot, on every account.
Getting started from Granola
Create a bot, invite it to the meetings you used to take notes in, and let recap emails replace the notes you used to send by hand.
FAQ
Questions about switching from Granola
Is Autessa Meeting Recorder a Granola alternative?
Yes. A named recording bot captures the meeting itself, writes the summary and emails a recap to everyone, so the whole team gets the notes.
Can the notes match how I write them?
Yes. Rewrite the summary prompt for a bot and every future meeting follows your sections, tone and language.
How far can I customize Meeting Recorder?
As far as you like. Rewrite the summary prompt per bot, tune retention and calendars, and ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, to add a step after every meeting or change any tool, screen or field. Your developers can edit the code directly.
Can AI agents use my meetings?
Yes. Through the Autessa MCP, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent can read your meetings, transcripts and summaries as data, and the Meeting Bot Dispatch tool lets an agent send a bot to a meeting.
Is Autessa Meeting Recorder free?
Yes. It is free with every Autessa account, for unlimited users, with no per-seat fees. You pay only for AI tasks.
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100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Meeting Recorder fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
Start free and make it yours