Introducing Recipes, in the all-new Granola Chat

Chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude don't know what you're working on, so it's often a pain to get genuinely useful results from them.

Today, we're announcing the next major version of Granola to solve this problem.

Say hello to Recipes, in the all-new Granola Chat.

Recipes combine AI prompts with your real work context, so AI actually does useful things for you. You call them up in the upgraded, easier-to-use Granola Chat by typing "/".

And because your meetings, conversations and notes are where lots of work happens, Granola Chat and Recipes can be surprisingly useful.

Helpful prompts to get more done

We've partnered with some of the best minds in their fields, to give you great Recipes from day one.

Today, we're launching with Recipes written by Lenny Rachitsky, Matt Mochary, Ridd, and lots of other experts. So now you can write a PRD based on your product brainstorms, get coached based on your 1:1s or give thoughtful feedback based on design crits.

We've also created dozens ourselves to help with the everyday jobs we all do at work.

Here are some examples:

• "Coach me" on how I show up at work, using feedback embedded in my conversations.
• "Prep me" before a meeting, pulling context from past calls.
• "Write a brief" from a brainstorm or strategy discussion.
• "Improve our sales process" by analyzing sales meetings for patterns.

And of course, you can create your own Recipes, share them with colleagues, or keep them private.

How Recipes work

Until now, using AI at work has felt mostly generic. Models are capable of incredible things, but without context they can't reflect the nuance of your work. And even the best prompts fall flat if you have to re-explain your background every time.

Recipes solve both problems at once, by:

• Bringing context: your conversations, where the latest work is actually happening.
• Bringing expertise: prompts designed by people who know what great output looks like (or, by you — the expert in your own workflow!).

The result is something that feels genuinely new: a private AI that not only understands you at work but also helps you make decisions, draft documents and be better prepared.

Our tools matter

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."

– John M. Culkin

The way we build AI into our work matters. We founded Granola because we believe this is a unique moment in history, where new tools will shape how millions of us work for years to come.

When we launched last year, we shared how we see Granola as a "steering wheel for LLMs" — an easy way to drive powerful AI models that can sometimes feel hard to drive.

Recipes are the next step in this journey: proven prompts paired with the context of your conversations, so you can truly get more done with AI that understands you and your work.

They're available now in Granola Chat. We can't wait to see what you do with them!