Your Meetings Are Full of Gold. Here's How to Start Mining It.
Meeting transcripts capture the conversation. Structured notes clean it up. These 4 prompts on top turn it into something you can actually use.
This is not a Granola AI ad. But I am going to talk about Granola a lot in this post.
What I’m talking about is a process: take a meeting transcript, turn it into structured notes, then prompt AI on top of those notes to extract something valuable. Granola just happens to do the first two steps really well, so I’m using it as the tool of choice for now.
It records your meetings in the background and turns the raw transcript into clean, structured notes. No filler, no “can you hear me?” moments. Just the substance of what was discussed. That matters because if you try to prompt on top of a raw transcript, the AI gets confused. Too much air. Granola cuts through that and gives you something the AI can better work with.
The notes alone are incredibly useful. But here’s where it gets interesting. You take those notes and prompt on top of them with a specific question. What comes back depends on two things: the kind of meeting you had, and the prompt you run.
The possibilities are endless, but let me show you what I mean with some concrete examples.
1. A weekly 1:1 turned into LinkedIn content
I had a 1:1 with someone on my team. Standard agenda, then it shifted into development areas, priorities, how to approach certain decisions. It turned into a real coaching conversation. The kind where you both walk away feeling like something clicked.
Afterwards, the conversation felt so good that I went into Granola and prompted it to dissect the core things we discussed into LinkedIn post ideas. No names, nothing personal, keep it generic (yes, my team mate gave the green light to do this).
It gave me three ideas. I ran with two of them.
One became this post:
That idea came from an organic conversation that just happened to be recorded. Granola caught it. The prompt pulled the idea out. I just had to write it.
This is the use case I’m most excited about. Think about how many conversations you have in a week that contain something worth sharing. 1:1s with your team. Strategy debates. Calls where someone says something that makes the whole room pause. Every one of those is a potential content idea, for your personal brand or for the business.
Try the prompt:
“Give me LinkedIn post ideas for [marketing leaders / your audience] based on this conversation. Focus on leadership, career development, or decision-making themes. No names, no personal details. For each: a one-line hook and the angle in one sentence.”
2. A manager 1:1 turned into a development tracker
Now flip it. Instead of prompting for content ideas after a 1:1 with your report, prompt for development patterns after a 1:1 with your manager.
What feedback keeps coming up? What are you being pushed on? What does your manager keep circling back to? Most people walk out of these conversations and forget half of it by the next day. Do this consistently over a few months and Granola becomes a mirror for how you’re growing as a professional. Based on what was actually said, not what you remember.
Try the prompt:
“Summarize the development areas and feedback from this conversation. Flag any recurring themes from previous 1:1s. Focus on growth areas, communication patterns, and where I was challenged. No names, no internal context.”
3. Hiring interviews turned into candidate scorecards
If you’re running a hiring process, you’re doing multiple interviews for the same role across days or weeks. Every interviewer walks out with a gut feeling and some scattered notes. By the time the debrief happens, half the detail is gone.
Prompt Granola after each interview to score the candidate across the areas that matter: depth of experience, strategic thinking, communication quality, culture fit, red flags. Structured notes work better here than raw transcripts because interviews are full of small talk, context-setting, and filler. The notes strip that away and let the prompt focus on substance.
Do this for every candidate and you end up with consistent scorecards you can compare side by side, grounded in what was actually said in the room.
Try the prompt:
“Score this candidate based on the interview conversation. Evaluate: depth of experience, strategic thinking, communication quality, and culture fit. Flag any red flags or concerns. Keep it factual based on what was discussed. No personal opinions, no assumptions beyond what was said.”
4. A brainstorm turned into a ranked backlog
Every team has brainstorms where great things get said and nobody can remember what by the next morning. You leave the room energized. A week later all you have is a whiteboard photo nobody looks at.
Prompt Granola to pull every distinct idea from the session, deduplicate them, and rank them by whatever matters to you: feasibility, originality, alignment with a specific goal. The brainstorm actually produces a usable backlog instead of a vague feeling that “we had some good ideas.”
Try the prompt:
“Extract every distinct idea or suggestion from this conversation. Remove duplicates. For each idea, write a one-line summary and rank them by [feasibility / originality / alignment with our Q3 goals]. Group related ideas together.”
Try it after your next meeting
Pick one meeting this week. Let Granola record it. After it’s done, open the notes and ask it something specific. You’ll be surprised what’s already sitting inside the conversations you’re having every day.
If you’re already doing something like this, I’d love to hear what meeting types are giving you the best results.
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