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Radiant vs Granola: The AI agent built for faster-moving teams

Compare Radiant’s automatic next-step creation with Granola’s meeting notes and transcripts.

Radiant and Granola at a glance

Granola captures and shares notes from meetings, but it stops at documentation. Radiant captures the same context and helps you follow through with suggested actions. Here’s how their core features compare.

Features
Granola
Radiant
Completes actions in tools
Captures meetings automatically
No meeting bot required
Speaker labeling and memory
Suggestions dashboard
Floating in-meeting widget
Transcripts and editable meeting notes
Document drafts
Slack message drafts
Linear drafts

Not just what they do, but how they do it

Granola runs locally on your Mac, capturing audio and enhancing the notes you type. Radiant also runs locally but documents meetings automatically, creating summaries and suggestions without requiring you to type. Here’s how their feature sets compare in practice.

Meeting capture

Granola captures your meeting by transcribing audio locally, without using bots. It works across platforms like Zoom, Meet, and Slack. After the meeting, it gives you a full transcript alongside your own notes and AI-generated enhancements.

Radiant also runs locally, detects meetings from your calendar, and records them automatically - no bots, no setup. You get a transcript, a shareable summary, and suggested next steps. You can also take notes in Radiant’s widget while the meeting is happening, giving you more flexibility in how you capture what matters.

Summaries and notes

Granola lets you take notes during the meeting and enhances them afterward using AI. You can see your original input, the transcript, and suggested edits or additions. It gives you a lightly structured way to reflect and refine your notes.

Radiant automatically generates a clean, editable summary for you, no note-taking required (though you can add your own). It also captures the full transcript and pairs it with smart suggestions, so you can quickly turn insights into action.

Tasks

Granola may highlight priorities and moments from the transcript, but it does not support task creation or execution. Follow-ups are left to the user, and there are no built-in integrations to move things forward.

Radiant generates drafts directly from conversations and opens them in your preferred work tools, so you can complete and send them without friction.

What sets Radiant apart

Granola enhances your meeting notes. Radiant gives you notes, suggestions, and next steps automatically, all from what was said. No extra input required.

Ready to turn meetings into action? Try Radiant today.

Radiant captures your meetings, suggests next steps, and helps you act on them in the tools you use for work. Download the Mac app and start turning conversations into progress.