GranolaLike Granola? You'll love Chief

Your meeting hasn't ended.Chief is already on it.

Chief is an AI that listens to your calls without a bot and files the tickets, emails and docs the room agrees on.

  • Mac · Windows · iPhone
  • Works with your meeting app: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Webex
  • No bot joins
  • Free to start

01 · How it works

Three steps, and the first is joining your call.

  1. 1

    Join your call as usual.

    Chief notices the meeting and asks to start. Nothing joins the call.

  2. 2

    Chief follows along.

    A live transcript and notes take shape as people talk. It recognizes who's speaking, in 10 languages or auto-detect.

  3. 3

    Chief does the work.

    Tickets, emails, docs: you approve, it's done.

02 · What Chief does

Before, during and after the call.Pick one to see it at work.

Chief doesn't just take notes.It does the work.

When someone says "let's open a ticket for that," Chief picks it up as a follow-up and does it: the Linear issue, the Slack post, the email.

Nothing is sent without your approval. Turn offers off anytime.

See how

03 · Hand off

Talk through the plan.Hand it to Claude Code.

One click hands your coding agent the meeting as context: transcript, decisions, and tagged to-dos. Terminal agents start in your project folder; chat agents get a prompt to paste.

  • MCP server

    Claude, Cursor, and Codex can read and write your Chief workspace.

  • Bring your own model keys

    OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter.

For builders

OpenCode, Copilot, Cline and 15 more agents: GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Cline, Augment, Factory Droid, Goose, Junie, Kiro CLI, Qwen Code, OpenHands

Integrations

Works where yourwork already lives.

Your meetingCan we get this into a doc?Let's open a ticket for that.
Chief

Every write waits for your approval.

Plus your CRM, Jira, Figma, Stripe and 80+ more through MCP.

See how

Trust

Your conversations are company knowledge.We treat them that way.

  • You approve every action

    Nothing is sent without your approval. Turn offers off anytime.

  • No bot joins your calls

    Chief captures the call from your computer, so nothing joins the meeting.

  • Encrypted in transit and at rest

    Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

  • Never used to train models

    Your conversations are never used to train models.

  • Private chats and an org audit log

    A chat you keep private stays yours. Admins can see who did what across the organization.

  • SOC 2 Type II · GDPR · HIPAADetails are in the Trust Center.SOC 2 Type II complianceHIPAA complianceGDPR complianceTrust Center

More than notes.Why not Granola, Otter, or Fathom?

CapabilityChiefGranolaOtterFathom
No bot joins the callYesYesPartlyPartly
Shared live transcriptYesNot documentedYesNot documented
AI notes that build during the callYesNoYesPartly
Updates Linear and GitHub for youYesPartlyNot documentedPartly
Hands the meeting to Claude Code or CodexYesPartlyPartlyPartly
Bring your own model keysYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documented
MCP server that can write, not just readYesNoNot documentedNo

Competitor details come from each vendor's public pages.

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Questions,answered.

Does a bot join my call?
No. Chief runs on your computer and captures the call from there, so nothing joins the meeting.
Which meeting apps work?
Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Webex, plus calls in your browser.
What languages does Chief understand?
Ten: English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian. Pick one, or let Chief detect it.
Is it free?
Free to start. You get 10,000 credits when you sign up, and free credits refill at 300 a day. Paid plans add more credits.
What happens to my recordings?
Your sessions are encrypted in transit and at rest, and they're never used to train models. You decide who can see each session, and your organization keeps an audit log.
Does it work on Windows?
Yes. Chief has desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and an iPhone app.
Can my team use it together?
Yes. Share one link and teammates can sketch on the shared canvas, co-edit documents, and comment while the call runs. Anyone can follow along in the browser with a watch link, no account needed.

Bring Chief to your next meeting.

Free to start · 10,000 credits on sign-up

SOC 2 Type II complianceHIPAA complianceGDPR compliance