Sometimes a product integration happens that doesn’t just feel inevitable—it feels right. That’s the sense I got connecting Grain’s new Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Claude.
We’ve long been promised a smarter future, but most of it has been flash over function. This isn’t that. It’s what happens when two platforms don’t just shake hands—they sync minds.
Grain, for those not already using it, has been steadily reshaping what meeting intelligence means. It doesn’t just record calls—it listens, understands, and packages the signal, not the noise. I’ve written before how voice-based AI like what we saw when Dialpad acquired TalkIQ back in 2018 was the start of VoiceAI becoming table stakes. What Grain has done now? It’s VoIP 3.0 in full bloom.
And Claude? Well, think of Claude as the brains you wish you had time to be after back-to-back calls and inbox zero chasing. Now with Grain piping in relevant context, Claude isn’t just replying. It’s reasoning.
Setting it up was laughably simple. I’ve wrestled with clunky APIs and half-baked integrations over the years. This was the opposite as Grain’s setup guide reads more like assembling a French press than writing Python. And it just works.
But here’s the real kicker: this isn’t about automation. It’s about augmentation. The insight from last Tuesday’s meeting doesn’t vanish into the ether. It lives. It breathes. Claude pulls it up, references exact quotes, and helps you build on it.
Years ago, I talked about the rise of the tech toys arms race in VoIP. Back then, it was about gear. Now, it’s context and cognition. This integration is the natural extension of what I forecast when platforms began converging around intelligence.
Grain captures the nuance. Claude interprets it. Together, they turn meetings into assets that don’t just get stored—they get smarter.
If you’ve been waiting for the future of work to show up, check your Claude chat. It’s already quoting your last strategy call.