Granola alternative for recruiters
The Granola alternative for recruiters who live on the phone, not on video calls
You run six screening calls back to back, then try to write six scorecards from memory at seven in the evening. Superscribe records each call on your own number and hands you the notes, the actions and the follow-up before the next one starts.
Superscribe
Stop rebuilding calls from memory
Use Superscribe to capture the words, context, next steps, and time while the work is still happening.
Recruiting is still a phone job. The first honest read on a candidate happens on a screening call, often on a mobile, often while one of you is walking to somewhere else. The debrief with the hiring manager happens in a room, or in a corridor, or in the ten minutes before their next standup. Some of it happens on video. Most of it does not.
That is the gap people hit when they go looking for a Granola alternative for recruiters. Granola is good at the thing it was built for. It sits on the meeting you take at your laptop and gives you notes you did not have to type. But a screening day is fifteen minutes here, a callback there, a candidate who rings you back at 18:40 from a train, and none of that arrives through a meeting link.
What still lands on your desk after the notes exist
Notes are not the deliverable. The deliverable is a scorecard the hiring manager will actually read, a shortlist note that survives being forwarded, a follow-up message the candidate gets today rather than Thursday, and a next step that is booked instead of remembered.
So the work after the call is the work. Someone has to decide that “can start in six weeks, but only if the notice period gets bought out” belongs in the offer thread and not in paragraph nine. Someone has to notice the candidate asked twice about remote days, which is the thing that kills the offer if nobody answers it. Someone has to book the second interview slot you both agreed to out loud.
That someone is you, at the end of a day of calls, with six conversations blurring into each other.
| The day | Granola | Superscribe Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Screening call on your mobile | Built around meetings at your computer | Recorded on your own number, answered as usual |
| Debrief in a room | Not the primary case | Tap Start meeting, phone on the table, visible recording state |
| Someone joining by phone | Not the primary case | Dial them in onto the same transcript |
| After the call | Notes exist, the rest is on you | Title, summary and suggested actions, each one tap |
| Where the output goes | You move it | Filed to the right project, pushed to Pipedrive as an activity, or pulled through the API and MCP |
Try it on the real workflow
Run your next screening call through it
Take the call the way you always do. It comes back as notes, actions and a follow-up you can send, with no cleanup pass afterwards.
What a Granola alternative for recruiters has to cover
Three things, in this order.
It has to work on the phone you already use. Superscribe Phone is an iPhone app. You keep your number, candidates see the number they expect, and you answer the way you always have. No bot asks to join, and there is no new phone system for anyone to learn.
It has to turn the call into structured output, not a wall of text. Every call is transcribed, with languages detected automatically, which matters if you screen across markets in a morning. What comes back is a title, a summary and suggested actions: call the candidate back, put the agreed interview time in the calendar, set a reminder, save an unknown number to contacts, turn a dictated list into a checklist in Reminders. Each one is a single tap. Nothing fires on its own. Time-sensitive ones show on the lock screen with buttons, so the callback you promised does not wait for you to open an app.
It has to handle the room, not only the call. Tap Start meeting, put the phone on the table, and the debrief is recorded with a recording state everyone can see. If the second interviewer is not in the building, dial them in by phone and they land on the same transcript. Speakers are separated and named when they introduce themselves. The minutes, with the summary, decisions and follow-ups, are ready when the meeting ends.
Then it goes somewhere. Calls and meetings are filed to the right project automatically and pushed to Pipedrive as an activity. Anything else in your stack can pull them through the API and MCP.
Test it on one requisition
Pick your busiest role and use it for a week
Every screening call for that one role, captured on your own number and filed to the same project. Compare the scorecards to the ones you wrote from memory.
Why I built the phone side of this first
I am Siim. Superscribe started because I kept watching capable people rebuild work they had already done, from memory, hours later. The words were spoken once, clearly, and then thrown away. What survived was a rough recollection typed into a form at the end of the day.
Recruiters were the sharpest version of that problem I found. The detail that decides the hire is said out loud in minute eleven of a screening call, and then it gets rebuilt three times: once for the ATS, once for the hiring manager, once for the candidate. So Superscribe captures spoken work from business calls and desktop dictation and turns it into text, tasks, context and follow-ups instead of leaving you to reconstruct it later.
Choosing between them
Choose Granola if the meetings that matter to you happen on your computer, on a video link, with a calendar invite attached, and you are happy owning the write-up.
Choose Superscribe if your best material comes from calls on your real phone number and from conversations in a room, and the part you want back is the hour after the call rather than the typing during it.
For many teams this is not a hard choice, because the two sit on different halves of the day.
Do this next
Open the app before your next candidate call
Take the call, then look at what comes back. If the scorecard writes itself from that, you have your answer.
Questions recruiters ask
Does the candidate know they are being recorded?
You handle consent the way your policy and your local law require, the same as with any recording tool. On the phone side there is no bot joining and no announcement built in, so telling the candidate is on you. In a room meeting, the recording state is visible on the screen for everyone at the table.
Does this replace my phone system?
No. You keep your carrier, your number and your normal way of answering. Superscribe Phone sits alongside that, and there is nothing for candidates or hiring managers to install.
What if my team needs more than one seat?
The solo iPhone app is free to start. Business Voice adds seats and pooled minutes for a recruiting team, which is what you want once several people are screening against the same roles. The details are on the calls page.