Grammarly is planning to acquire the popular email app Superhuman, according to a press release from the company.
According to the company, email is already the “number one use case” for Grammarly for professional users: “The AI-powered assistant helps you check more than 50 million emails every week from more than 20 email providers.” The purchase of Superhuman makes some sense: it gives Grammarly its own email app to showcase its product.
But judging by the press release, Grammarly has broader ambitions – which, like many other tech companies, are related to artificial intelligence. In particular, AI agents.
“Grammarly is evolving into a platform for apps and agents, moving toward a multi-product company with hundreds of intelligent agents specializing in specific tasks,” the company says. “Email is the ideal medium for this multi-agent support, as professionals spend more than three hours in their inboxes every day and email remains the fundamental foundation of any productivity suite.”
The company says it is the “platform of the future” that will “enable scenarios where users can work with multiple agents at the same time,” such as a communications agent, sales agent, support agent, and marketing agent helping you write a memo for a client. But the real test will be whether these plans come to fruition – and whether Grammarly can compete with tools from AI giants like OpenAI and Google, which also have agent ambitions.
Late last year, Grammarly acquired productivity startup Coda, with Coda co-founder and CEO Shishir Mehrotra leading the combined company as CEO.
