Granola to Jira
Granola does not connect to Jira on its own, so the usual route is a Zapier automation that copies action items over as one-line issues. Spectr talks to both sides directly and does a lot more than copying: it reads the note and the transcript, separates requirements, bugs and decisions, drafts a story with acceptance criteria for each requirement and bug, and publishes the ones you approve as properly typed Jira issues.
How it works
A call is imported from Granola. Spectr picks out a requirement, a bug, an action item and an out-of-scope ask, and drafts a story and a bug with acceptance criteria. A person approves both, they are published to Jira, and the requirements, scope log and project memory update from the same call.
Granola connects with an API key from your Granola workspace; Jira through Atlassian's consent screen, where you pick the Cloud site. Both talk to Spectr directly, with no Zap or other service holding your notes in between.
Granola only opens its API on the Business and Enterprise plans, so a workspace on a lower Granola plan cannot connect. Jira must be a Cloud site.
A Zap is a field mapping. It moves the text of an action item into a Jira summary and stops. It cannot tell a Story from a Bug using your project's real issue types, match priority to your own scheme, convert markdown so the description renders properly, create real sub-tasks when one requirement produces several stories, or read the status back afterwards. Spectr does all of that.
Granola labels each transcript line by audio source: your own microphone, or the rest of the call. Spectr keeps those labels, so the model can tell what you said from what the other side asked for.
Spectr reads the summary Granola writes from the call before the transcript, then goes to the transcript for the exact wording of a detail.
When you refresh story status, Spectr reads the status category of every published issue in a batched JQL query and rolls it onto the matching story. An issue someone deletes in Jira is skipped, so Spectr keeps what it already had.
In Spectr, open the project you want to connect and go to Integrations.
In Granola, generate an API key (Business or Enterprise plan required).
Choose Granola and paste the key.
Choose Jira, click Connect, and pick the site on Atlassian's consent screen.
Pick the Jira project new issues should land in - and optionally a default issue type and starting status.
Import a meeting from Granola. Spectr gathers project context, extracts a structured spec, and drafts a story for each requirement and bug.
Approve the stories drafted from the note and publish them to Jira, with no Zap in between. Their statuses start syncing back from that point.
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No. Spectr talks to Granola and to Jira Cloud directly - no Zap, no polling script, and no intermediate service holding your data.
Nearly. Jira does not allow spaces in labels, so "Auth Flow" is published as "Auth-Flow". Spectr does not read labels back from Jira, rather than guess at how they were originally spelled.
Business ($14 per user a month as of October 2026) or Enterprise. Granola only issues API keys on those plans, and its own Zapier route to Jira needs Business too.
Use case
Import a call, get a draft backlog, approve what is right
Native Granola import - no Zapier, no scripts - straight through to Jira, Linear or Shortcut
Publish stories as Jira issues, with sub-task nesting, and read their status back
