Grammarly just stepped boldly into the world of office productivity with its latest acquisition of AI productivity platform.
The company famous for catching errant commas and awkward phrasing is no longer satisfied with a single purpose. It wants to compete head to head with heavyweights from Microsoft and Google, transforming itself from a helpful assistant into an essential suite for work.
Superhuman, built on the idea that email could be both fast and exclusive, was once valued at $825 million and boasted a yearly revenue of about $35 million. It grabbed attention with a slick product that claimed to help users answer and send far more emails in the same amount of time.
After swallowing up Coda last year, Grammarly’s new focus is clear. It wants a unified ecosystem where writing, collaborating, and now emailing, are woven together by artificial intelligence.
Superhuman Joins the Grammarly Family
Rahul Vohra, who led Superhuman, is jumping aboard Grammarly’s leadership team. Over 100 Superhuman employees will make the move too, but the startup itself is not going away.
“The Superhuman product, team, and brand will continue,” explained Grammarly CEO Shashir Mehrotra. He added, “It’s a very well used product by tens of thousands of people, and we want to see them continue to make progress.”
With both teams united, users can expect new smart features within their inboxes. Summarizing threads, generating responses, syncing calendars and extracting details from documents are all in the works, thanks to Grammarly’s push into artificial intelligence.
Superhuman will serve as the test ground for this deeper integration. The aim is nothing less than to reshape how email serves professionals, making the process smoother, faster, and smarter.
Vohra described the merger as a chance for growth. “This gives us significantly greater resources and allows us to invest more deeply in AI, calendars, tasks, and collaboration,” he said.
The broader workspace landscape is crowded, though. Google’s generative tools in Gmail and Microsoft’s smart features for Outlook are evolving quickly. Fresh competitors like Shortwave and Missive are hustling to inject even more intelligence into how we manage our messages.
Still, Mehrotra is certain that email is not going anywhere. In his words, “Email continues to be the dominant communication tool for the world. Professionals spend something like three hours a day in their inboxes. It’s by far the most used work app, foundational to any productivity suite.”
Not long ago, Superhuman was for the few — only those with an invitation could get in. Now, with more than 40 million people relying on Grammarly each day, the future promises something a lot bigger and a lot faster for everyone’s inbox.
