Ask Grain AI answers questions about your meetings and takes action on them. Ask for a summary, check whether a topic came up, create a clip of a key moment, or add a meeting to a playlist without leaving the page.
Where to find it
The 'Ask anything' bar sits in the bottom right corner of the 'Meetings' page, every meeting page, and every playlist page.
Meetings page: Ask works across all the meetings you have access to.
Meeting page: Ask starts with that meeting as context.
Playlist page: Ask starts with the meetings in that playlist as context.
What Ask can do
Ask uses the same tools as the Grain MCP, so you can make changes in Grain by typing a request.
Find meetings: search your meetings and transcripts by topic, person, or date, and pull notes, action items, and transcripts.
Clips and stories: create a clip from a meeting, list your clips, create a story, and add clips to a story.
Playlists: create a playlist, add meetings to it, and change who can see it.
Tags: add or remove tags on one meeting or many at once.
Trackers: view your workspace's Trackers and create new ones.
Your settings: view and change your personal settings, such as 'Auto-record' for internal and external meetings.
People and deals: look up contacts, companies, workspace members, and deals.
Note: Ask makes changes as soon as you send the request. It does not ask you to confirm first, so check your request before you send it.
Note: Trackers and deals need a Business or Enterprise plan. Deals also need a connected HubSpot integration.
Example questions
"What were the three main topics discussed in this call?"
"Did the client mention a timeline or deadline?"
"List all action items and who they were assigned to."
"Was pricing discussed? If so, what was said?"
"Summarize the customer's main concerns in two sentences."
"What objections came up and how were they handled?"
Example actions
"Create a clip of the part where the client talks about pricing."
"Add this meeting to my 'Q4 Renewals' playlist."
"Find every meeting from the last two weeks where a customer mentioned Salesforce and tag them 'salesforce'."
"Create a story from the clips in my last three demos."
"Turn off auto-record for my internal meetings."
Tips for better results
Be specific: state exactly what you want Grain to do with the meeting content.
Bad example: "What was discussed in the meeting?"
Good example: "Summarize the key points from this meeting in five bullets."
Name the action and the target: for changes, say what to create or update and where it goes.
Bad example: "Save the good part."
Good example: "Create a clip from 12:30 to 13:15 titled 'Pricing objection' and add it to my 'Objections' story."
Request a specific response: if you need a yes or no answer, say so upfront.
Bad example: "Tell me about the pricing."
Good example: "Answer yes or no. Was a discount discussed in this meeting?"
Specify the format: ask for bullets, a table, or one sentence.
Bad example: "Give me the results."
Good example: "List the action items in a table with owner and due date."
Focus on what you want: frame prompts around what you do want, not what you don't.
Bad example: "Summarize the call. Don't write more than 3 sentences."
Good example: "Summarize the call in 3 sentences or less."
Iterate and refine: if the answer misses, adjust the prompt and try again.
Bad example: "Summarize the project progress."
Good example: "Summarize the key achievements and open risks from this project update."
FAQ
Can Ask make changes to my account? Yes. Ask can create clips, stories, playlists, and Trackers, add or remove tags, and update your personal settings. It does not confirm before it acts. It cannot change workspace settings or billing.
Which meetings can Ask see? Ask can only see meetings you have access to.
What if Ask can't do what I need? Connect Grain to Claude or ChatGPT with the Grain MCP. Your AI tool then works with your meetings alongside your other apps.