Grammarly to Acquire Superhuman, Elevating Email as a Central Hub for AI-Driven Productivity
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we work, Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, has announced its intent to acquire Superhuman, the AI-native email app renowned for helping users save time and enhance efficiency in their email communications. This strategic move accelerates Grammarly’s transformation into a comprehensive AI productivity platform, with email positioned as a pivotal communication surface in the company’s vision of an agentic future—a world where humans and AI collaborate seamlessly.
Addressing the AI Promise Gap
The promise of AI has long been to revolutionize workflows and supercharge productivity. However, many technology providers have fallen short by simply retrofitting AI onto existing tools. This fragmented approach has exacerbated an already chaotic tech ecosystem, leaving professionals overwhelmed and yielding minimal improvements in productivity. The result? Poor returns on software investments and companies lagging behind competitors who adopt more innovative solutions.
Grammarly is charting a different course. The company has constructed what it calls an “AI superhighway,” delivering intelligent writing agents to users across more than 500,000 applications and websites. Now, Grammarly is expanding this infrastructure into a productivity platform that integrates multiple agents capable of handling diverse tasks. By embedding AI directly into users’ workflows, Grammarly ensures that AI works where people naturally operate, rather than forcing them to adapt to rigid systems.
“This is the future we’ve envisioned since day one: AI that meets people where they are, not where companies want them to be,” said Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly. “With Superhuman, we can extend this vision to millions more professionals while providing our existing users with a unique surface for agent collaboration. Email isn’t just another app—it’s where professionals spend a significant portion of their day, making it the ideal staging ground for orchestrating multiple AI agents simultaneously.”
Email as an Agent-Ready Surface
Email remains the top use case for Grammarly among professionals, with the platform revising over 50 million emails weekly across more than 20 email providers, including Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Superhuman. Superhuman enhances this foundation by bringing more than just productivity gains to the table. As a beloved product with impressive adoption rates, Superhuman is redefining the future of email, evolving it into a dynamic workspace for AI agents. With 94% of its weekly active users embracing AI, the app delivers measurable results: users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour after adopting Superhuman compared to before.
Imagine taking this efficiency to the next level with AI agents that triage your inbox, schedule meetings, conduct deep research across all your content, and draft full emails in your unique voice and tone. These agents could reason, solve problems, incorporate detailed context about your work, and interact seamlessly with other systems and agents.
“Email is the primary communication tool for billions worldwide and the number-one use case for Grammarly customers,” said Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman. “By joining forces with Grammarly, we will double down on enhancing the core Superhuman experience while creating a new paradigm of work where AI agents collaborate across the communication tools we all rely on daily. This collaboration will free us to focus on creativity, strategy, and unlocking our full human potential.”
Building the Agentic Future
A recent Grammarly study reveals that workers are ready for agentic AI, with power users identifying opportunities for AI to handle tasks autonomously. Early signals indicate demand for agentic administrative support (44%), internal collaboration and coordination (39%), and strategic communications (36%). Despite current AI adoption levels, 66% of professionals anticipate a threefold increase in productivity within five years. Industry leaders are even more optimistic, with many predicting a tenfold productivity boost over the same period. But where will these gains come from?
The acquisition of Superhuman aligns with Grammarly’s broader vision of transforming applications into intelligent agents that collaborate with users. Paired with Grammarly’s recent acquisition of Coda—a workspace designed for managing agents to research, analyze, create, collaborate, and share information—Superhuman fills a critical gap in the productivity puzzle. Together, these acquisitions position Grammarly as a multi-product company offering hundreds of task-specific agents.
Email stands out as the perfect environment for multi-agent assistance. Professionals spend over three hours daily managing their inboxes, underscoring email’s foundational role in any productivity suite. In the envisioned platform, users will be able to engage with multiple agents simultaneously. For instance, while drafting a customer memo, Grammarly’s trusted communication agent could refine spelling and grammar, a sales agent could verify sales facts, a support agent could provide context on recent customer issues, and a marketing agent could suggest optimal feature positioning.
About Grammarly
Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. Coda, the maker of powerful AI productivity tools, is now a part of Grammarly. Together, they are redefining collaboration and transforming how we get work done. Learn more at grammarly.com/about.
