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Grain

The AI Notetaker Built for Growing Teams

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Grain is an AI meeting notetaker that captures and transcribes calls (with or without a bot joining), enriches transcripts with participant and cross-meeting context, and pipes that context to Claude, ChatGPT, or other AI agents, alongside team-collaboration features like clips and shared highlights.

Vendor's own claim
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Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Bot-less transcription of a user's own computer audio, plus optional video recording via a meeting bot
  • Universal capture across meeting platforms (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex)
  • Enriched transcripts with participant and cross-meeting context, available in 100+ languages as clean Markdown
  • Action items and AI meeting summaries, shareable or emailed automatically
  • Capture rules to control which meetings get recorded
  • AI agent integrations designed to feed enriched meeting context to Claude/ChatGPT and other tools
  • Team collaboration: clips, highlights, and shared stories
  • CRM sync integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce) to log meetings against contacts, companies, and deals

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
Personal Access Token or Workspace Access Token (Bearer header), or OAuth2 Authorization Code flow with PKCE for third-party integrations
Rate limits
300 requests per minute, per Grain's own API docs; requests over the limit return 429 Too Many Requests
Notable endpoints
  • OAuth2 authorize (oauth2/authorize)
  • OAuth2 token generation and refresh (oauth2/token)
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

Pricing

From official docs
PlanPriceIncludedNotable
Free$0/seat/monthView team meetings, Try AI notes

Checked 2026-08-06 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.

What is Grain

Vendor's own claim

Grain is an AI notetaker positioned specifically for feeding meeting context to AI agents, not just producing human-readable notes. Per its own developer docs, it exposes a Personal API and Workspace API (v2, OAuth2 or token-based) for programmatic access to meeting data, alongside its consumer-facing recording and transcription product.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

Growing sales and customer-facing teams who want meeting transcripts and summaries automatically captured, enriched, and fed into their AI tools and CRM, without requiring every meeting to have a recording bot present.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

The vendor's own FAQ notes an Enterprise-only requirement that 'all seats must be on Enterprise' for certain plan comparisons, implying mixed free/paid-seat setups may not carry over cleanly to Enterprise; teams anticipating a simple per-seat upgrade path should confirm this constraint with Grain directly.

Grain FAQ

Is Grain free to use?

Yes, per the pricing page there is a free-forever plan (view team meetings, try AI notes), separate from a 14-day free trial offered for paid plans.

From official docs
Does Grain require a bot to join my meetings?

No - Grain offers bot-less transcription of your own computer's audio; a meeting bot is only needed if you want video recording or can't personally attend, per the vendor's own product description.

Vendor's own claim
Does Grain have a developer API?

An older v1 API exists but is being sunset and its features are not fully carried over to v2.

From official docs
What CRMs does Grain sync with?

HubSpot and Salesforce are named on the integrations page, alongside Webex, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Aircall, Slack, Productboard, and Zapier.

Vendor's own claim
Does Grain publish an OpenAPI spec?

This is an absence of evidence, not confirmation none exists.

Our read
Does Grain have an MCP server for AI agents?

Grain does market general 'AI agent integrations' for feeding meeting context to tools like Claude and ChatGPT, but a dedicated MCP server was not confirmed.

Our read

Verify before you buy

  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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