Grammarly — the little green checkmark that’s been quietly proofreading emails, essays and Slack messages for millions — is getting a new identity. Today, the company announced it will operate under the name Superhuman, folding its writing product together with the email app Superhuman Mail, collaborative workspace Coda, and a freshly minted AI assistant called Superhuman Go. The change is more than cosmetic: it’s a signal that the company wants to move from a single-purpose writing aide into a broader “AI productivity” platform that can live in every tab and pull context from dozens of apps.
What happened
- December 2024 — Grammarly announced the acquisition of Coda, the collaborative-docs company whose founders have expertise in building flexible, data-driven workspaces.
- Mid-2025 — Grammarly acquired the email-focused startup Superhuman (the company behind the fast, keyboard-first mail app).
- October 29, 2025 — Grammarly formally rebranded the parent company to Superhuman, launching the Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go; existing paid Grammarly Pro subscribers get access to the suite starting today, and Superhuman Go will be free to those subscribers through February 1, 2026.
What’s in the new Superhuman suite
At its core, the pitch is simple: take Grammarly’s natural-language smarts, Coda’s flexible documents and databases, and Superhuman’s email-first workflows — then stitch them together with agents that can act for you.
- Superhuman Go is described as an “AI assistant” that sits across your browser and apps, surfacing suggestions, drafting messages, and — crucially — performing contextual tasks like scheduling based on your calendar or pulling facts from a database when you’re writing a pitch. The company says these new capabilities are possible because the assistant can connect to a large ecosystem of apps (the company has said “over 100” apps).
- The familiar Grammarly UI hasn’t vanished — the sidebar experience, with suggested rewrites and tone tweaks, lives on — but it’s now one agent among many inside a broader “agent store” where customers can pick specialized assistants for Google Workspace, Outlook and other workflows. The writing tool remains, but it’s being positioned as one capability within a multi-agent platform.
Why the name change matters
A rebrand always carries risk: you can confuse or alienate long-time customers, or you can signal that the company is aiming at a new, larger market. In this case, the new Superhuman name borrows the cachet of the well-known email product the company bought, and it highlights a strategic pivot:
- From discrete product → platform. Grammarly’s business has long been about corrections and clarity. Superhuman wants to be the layer that anticipates actions across your workflow — not just fix your grammar, but suggest the right recipients, the best time to meet, or the exact data point to include in a sales outreach.
- From single app revenue → suite monetization. Bundling Coda’s workspace capabilities with a mail app and an agentized assistant opens more cross-sell doors (and makes for a stickier paid subscription). The company has already started rolling this into how it sells upgrades to paying customers: the new suite is available now to people who already pay for Grammarly Pro, and Superhuman Go will be free for them through Feb 1, 2026, while the company figures out longer-term pricing. Details beyond that date haven’t been finalized publicly.
How it actually works
From demos and the company’s materials, Superhuman Go is built as a collection of agents:
- Connector agents tie into your calendar, email, docs and databases to surface real-time context.
- Productivity agents perform domain tasks — drafting email replies, creating meeting notes, and summarizing threads.
- Partner agents are focused on particular apps (think: an Outlook agent or a Google Workspace agent).
The UI will feel familiar to Grammarly users — a sidebar that both suggests edits and accepts typed prompts — but now that sidebar can also host agent outputs, action buttons and one-click routines that move beyond language corrections. The company says the assistant can, for example, schedule meetings by checking your Google Calendar or pull the right figure from a Coda table to include in a proposal.
The business logic: why this move makes sense
There’s an obvious commercial logic here. The AI wars are increasingly about context and integration. Models that can’t see your calendar, documents and inbox are limited; ones that can act across those surfaces are far more valuable to business customers. By combining three different product families — writing, email and collaborative docs — Superhuman is trying to build that contextual moat.
Investors and executives have pushed many consumer-oriented AI companies to chase “platform” status because platforms command higher average revenue per user and create more opportunities for enterprise sales. Bringing the products under a single identity simplifies the message: Superhuman aims to be an “AI layer for work” rather than “that grammar checker.”
Tradeoffs and tough questions
This pivot raises predictable questions:
- Privacy and data use. The more apps an assistant connects to, the more sensitive data it touches. Superhuman and Grammarly have published commitments in the past about data handling, but users and regulators will want concrete assurances about what data is used to improve models, what’s stored, and how third-party connectors are vetted. Expect privacy to be a live topic as the company rolls this out more broadly.
- Pricing and value. Giving Superhuman Go free to Pro subscribers through Feb 1, 2026, is a classic way to accelerate adoption and gather usage data — but the company hasn’t confirmed pricing after that. Businesses and power users will watch closely to see how much of the new suite remains behind paywalls and what features remain free.
- Competition. The move puts Superhuman in a fight with big incumbents that are also embedding AI across suites — think Google, Microsoft and Slack-style collaboration players. The differentiator will be how well Superhuman’s agents actually save time in day-to-day work, not just the elegance of a demo.
What should existing Grammarly users expect now?
If you’re a paid Grammarly Pro user, the headline is straightforward: you’ll see the new Superhuman suite in your account and you’ll get access to Superhuman Go at no extra charge for the trial window ending February 1, 2026. The core writing features you rely on won’t disappear — they’ll be available as a writing agent among many — but the company is placing its bets on broader, agent-driven usefulness rather than being just a writing tool.
The takeaway
Grammarly’s move to rebrand as Superhuman is both symbolic and strategic. It acknowledges that the company’s ambitions have outgrown punctuation and tone correction: it wants to be the intelligent assistant that lives across email, docs and calendars. That bet — stitching language intelligence to context and actions — is sensible in a market that rewards integrations and outcomes, not just slick NLP.
But execution matters. The next year will show whether Superhuman can make AI agents genuinely useful without raising new privacy headaches, and whether customers will pay for a suite that feels less like a focused tool and more like an always-on helper. For now, paid Grammarly users get a free hands-on preview; everyone else gets to watch the experiment unfold.
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