Granola and Polar: turn the call into a data-backed follow-up.
Granola captures what was said on the call; Polar knows the numbers behind it. Wire them into one agent and, after each meeting, it pulls the transcript, pulls the metrics the conversation referenced, and drafts the follow-up, the action items and the answer with real data attached, so nobody leaves a call promising a number they have to dig up later.
/Setup Guide
How to Connect Granola to Polar.
A Polar account with your stack connected, a Granola account with an API key, and an agent that fetches transcripts and reads Polar over MCP. No hosted Granola MCP yet, it's a custom-tool workflow.
01 · What you need
A Polar account with your stack
A Polar account with Shopify and your sources connected. The follow-ups are backed by your governed metrics.
Connect your data →A Granola account
A Granola account capturing your call notes and transcripts, with an API key your workflow can read.
Open Granola →An agent that ties them together
An assistant with the Polar MCP and a tool that fetches Granola transcripts, so it can read the call and the data in one flow.
02 · Wire the call to your data
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Fetch the transcript per call
Granola captures what was said.
After a meeting, the agent pulls the Granola transcript. There's no hosted Granola MCP today, so this runs through a small custom tool that calls Granola's API with your key.
Honest setup: this is a custom-tool workflow, not a one-click connector. Polar's Hermes agent already uses Granola this way.
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Pull the numbers from Polar ~1 min
The metrics the call referenced.
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It reads your governed metrics over the Polar MCP for whatever the conversation touched, revenue, CAC, a cohort, a channel.
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So the recap carries real, sourced numbers, not a paraphrase of what someone thought the figure was.
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Draft the follow-up the payoff
Recap, action items, answers.
It writes the follow-up: a recap, the action items, and the data-backed answers to what was asked, ready to send or drop into your tracker.
draft the follow-up from this call with the numbers
turn the transcript into action items with data
turn the transcript into action items with data
Side by side
Granola captures the conversation. Polar brings the numbers to it.
Notes and action items live in Granola, and the numbers people argue about in the meeting live somewhere else. Polar supplies the governed figures, so the recap is written from the source instead of from memory.
Granola on its ownon its own
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Action items are written from memory, not from the data.
Recaps sourced from Polar's governed numbers.
Every metric mentioned has to be looked up afterwards.
Ask Polar in plain language, during or after the call.
Notes are a record of a discussion, not a decision.
Decisions carried into a dashboard the team already reads.
The follow-up depends on whoever took the notes.
The same numbers and the same definitions, every meeting.
The Gap
The transcript in. A data-backed follow-up out.
After a call, an agent pulls the Granola transcript and reads the metrics it referenced over the Polar MCP, then drafts a recap and action items with real, sourced numbers, so nothing waits on a later dig.
Granola
the transcript & what was asked
data-backed recap & action items