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4 ways to automate Grain with Zapier

By Michael Toth · April 4, 2024
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Grain is a powerful AI tool that automatically handles many of your tedious work meeting tasks. With it, you can automatically take meeting notes, identify conversation highlights, and keep track of next steps. 

But the real benefits come when you connect Grain with your existing tools and processes. With Zapier's automated workflows—called Zaps—you can send highlights and recordings from Grain directly into your favorite apps. 

Whether it's sharing important meeting moments across channels, distilling conversations into actionable insights, directing customer feedback into product boards, or streamlining content creation, these Grain Zaps will empower your team to leverage your collective knowledge efficiently and effectively.

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To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button. It only takes a few minutes to set up. You can read more about setting up Zaps here.

Share details from team meetings

Imagine you're part of a team that frequently collaborates on projects requiring input from various stakeholders, but scheduling conflicts mean not everyone can join live calls. Wouldn't it be great if every important detail and key decision from these calls could be captured and shared directly to your team's preferred communication channels?

With automation, you can do exactly that! Use one of the Zap templates below to easily send new Grain recordings to Slack, Gmail, or Discord as soon as they become available. This setup ensures that everyone on your team can access the information they need, and you're preserving essential knowledge within the company.

Send new Grain recordings to Slack

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    As you record and add meetings in Grain, you may want to notify a group of people in Slack that a new recording is available for highlighting and review. This integration will automatically notify a public Slack channel whenever a new recording appears in Grain and include a link to that recording.

    Send new Grain recordings as Discord channel messages

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      Effortlessly share your Grain recordings in Discord channels with this seamless workflow. Whenever a new recording is added in Grain, a channel message will be sent to your chosen Discord channel, keeping your team up-to-date on project developments and insights. Simplify your communication and streamline sharing important information with this easy automation.

      Send Gmail emails for new Grain recordings

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        Effortlessly send your meeting summary and key points to your customers immediately after the call. Say goodbye to the tedious task of writing detailed meeting recaps or relying solely on your memory to retain crucial details. Here's how it works: When you record a call using Grain, its AI automatically takes meeting notes and sends them to your prospect/customer via Gmail. Optionally, you can CC or BCC yourself on the email as well.

        Create new Gmail drafts from added recordings in Grain

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          Whenever a new recording is added in Grain, this workflow instantly crafts a new draft in your Gmail. Without any manual effort, your recordings can transform into ready-to-send emails, simplifying your process and enabling effective communication. This is perfect if you frequently share your findings or discussions from Grain with others via email.

          Create detailed meeting summaries with AI

          Give Grain a little extra boost by connecting it with other powerful AI tools like ChatGPT and Mem. For example, you can send new meeting recordings to ChatGPT to generate an actionable summary before sending them to Slack or Google Sheets for next steps. You could also send Grain recordings to Mem, where you'll later be able to use Mem's AI tools to access the information exactly when you need it.

          By combining Grain with other AI tools, you can distill hours of conversation into actionable insights, saving time and enhancing team productivity by focusing on implementing rather than documenting key decisions.

          Extract action items from Grain recordings with ChatGPT and send in Slack

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            Streamline your team's productivity by automatically extracting action items from your Grain recordings using ChatGPT, and instantly sharing them in Slack. When a new recording is added in Grain, this Zap activates ChatGPT to generate a concise summary and list of action items derived from the conversation. Immediately after, these insights are shared in a designated Slack channel, ensuring your team stays aligned and can swiftly act on key decisions and tasks.

            Create detailed summaries of Grain recordings with ChatGPT

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              Automatically transform your Grain recording insights into actionable summaries and neatly organize them in Google Sheets. When a new recording is added in Grain, this Zap triggers ChatGPT to create a comprehensive conversation summary, ensuring no detail is missed. Then, a new row is created in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, capturing the essence of the conversation for easy reference and analysis.

              Create mems in Mem from new Grain recordings

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                Capture the essence of your Grain recordings effortlessly by transforming them into organized Mems in Mem. Whenever a new recording is added in Grain, this Zap automatically creates a new Mem, allowing you to seamlessly integrate key insights and discussions into your Mem workspace.

                Connect Grain with product and support tools

                Integrating customer feedback into new product updates can be tedious for product teams. Often, you're relying on sales and client service teams to share customer feedback, which can lead to lots of information being lost in translation.

                Instead, why not build automated workflows to save Grain highlights from customer calls directly to Miro, Productboard, or Cardinal? This system can eliminate hours of back-and-forth discussion, transferring valuable customer insights from calls directly into product planning tools. This ensures that every piece of feedback is looped into your product development cycle, aligning product features more closely with user needs.

                Create Miro card widgets from new Grain highlights

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                  Save your Grain highlights as visual boards in Miro with this efficient workflow. When you add a highlight in Grain, a card widget will be created in your Miro account, making it easy to organize and showcase important video moments. Enhance your project discussions and presentations with this seamless integration.

                  Add new Grain highlights to Productboard as notes

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                    Streamline your note-taking process with this worry-free automation. Whenever you add a new highlight in Grain, a corresponding note gets instantly created in Productboard. This lets you ensure key moments from your video conversations are documented and organized, enhancing productivity and saving precious time. No more switching apps or manual entries - just a smooth, seamless workflow.

                    Create feedback in Miro Insights from new Grain call recordings

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                      Easily bring in your sales and product calls from Grain into your product backlog tool. This Zap automatically creates a feedback item in Miro Insights after your new calls are over. Afterward, with the power of AI, it extracts all the feature requests that came up in the call and connects them to your existing backlog.

                      Build a content backlog

                      Content teams focused on customer stories, testimonials, or case studies spend a lot of time editing raw customer interviews to get ready-to-publish content. By integrating Grain with tools like Notion, Airtable, and Google Drive, you can simplify the process of transforming interview insights into engaging narratives, making it easier to incorporate customer experiences into your content strategies. 

                      Use one of these Zaps to make sure you always have a rich, continually updated content backlog for your team.

                      Add new Grain recordings to Notion as database items

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                        Easily manage and organize your Grain recordings in Notion with this seamless workflow. When a new recording is added to Grain, this automation will create a corresponding database item in your Notion app, helping you keep track of your recordings and simplifying content organization. Save time and ensure consistency with this efficient integration.

                        Create Notion pages for new recordings added in Grain

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                          Effortlessly manage and store your Grain recordings in Notion with this seamless workflow. When you add a new recording in Grain, a corresponding page will be generated in your designated Notion database. This efficient process simplifies content organization, enabling you to quickly access and review essential recordings without any manual effort.

                          Update Airtable records with new Grain recordings

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                            Airtable makes working with structured data tables a breeze, but what if you want to work with information about your recorded meetings as well? This template allows you to use information from new meetings in Grain to update Airtable records automatically.

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                              When a new recording is added in Grain, this workflow springs into action, creating a text file in Google Drive with the relevant details. By linking Grain to your Google Drive, you ensure easy content sharing and storage without the manual hassle. Enjoy effortless data management by bridging your recording and file storage platforms.

                              Boost team productivity with Grain and Zapier

                              Whether you're using Grain to compile team meeting details so everybody can stay informed, generate product insights, or build a content backlog, automation can save you time and improve your processes. And this is just the start of what you can do with Grain and Zapier. What will you automate first?

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