Grammarly has announced a deal to acquire Superhuman, an AI-native email startup, to help users respond one to two days faster and save four hours every week on their email communications, in a bid to pursue an AI-driven productivity suite.
Grammarly’s acquisition accelerates its transformation into an AI productivity platform, emphasising email as a key communication channel in the company’s vision for an agent-driven future.
The company has created an ‘AI superhighway’ that delivers writing agents to users across more than 5 lakh applications and websites. Grammarly is now developing a productivity platform with additional agents to enhance this superhighway and bring AI directly to users at work.
Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly, said, “With Superhuman, we can deliver that future to millions more professionals while giving our existing users another surface for agent collaboration that simply doesn’t exist anywhere else.”
Building on its success as a popular product, Superhuman is transforming email into a comprehensive workspace for professionals. With 94% of users adopting AI, productivity has surged, with users sending and responding to 72% more emails per hour.
Reuters reported that the companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal. Superhuman, once a highly sought-after email tool with a long waitlist, was valued at $825 million in 2021 and now has around $35 million in annual revenue.
Grammarly’s acquisition of Superhuman follows a $1 billion funding round from General Catalyst, allowing the company to develop AI-powered workplace tools. Founded in 2009, Grammarly has over 40 million daily users and annual revenue exceeding $700 million. It is also exploring a name change to reflect its ambition to go beyond grammar correction, Reuters reported.
A Grammarly study reveals that workers are increasingly prepared for agentic AI, with power users identifying opportunities for AI in tasks such as administrative support (44%), collaboration (39%), and strategic communications (36%).
While 66% of professionals expect a threefold increase in productivity in the next five years, industry leaders are even more optimistic, predicting a tenfold increase, prompting questions about how these gains will be realised.
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