I’m excited to share that Grammarly has agreed to acquire Superhuman, the AI-native email app that helps professionals respond faster and reclaim hours every week. This milestone accelerates our transformation into a productivity platform for apps and intelligent agents, with email as a foundational surface where those agents can collaborate.
Combining Superhuman’s innovative email experience with Grammarly’s trusted AI assistant, we’ll introduce a growing suite of task-specific agents that work seamlessly across the tools you already use. Imagine drafting a customer proposal as Grammarly perfects its tone, a sales agent verifies pricing details (backed by Coda Brain), and a support agent adds recent ticket context—all without ever leaving your inbox.
I understand you may have questions. Here are answers to a few we anticipate:
Why did Grammarly agree to acquire Superhuman? Grammarly is evolving into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents—and with Superhuman, we can accelerate that evolution. This journey started with our acquisition of Coda which gives Grammarly a workspace to write with AI from start to finish, calling on agents for information along the way. Following in the next step, Superhuman brings email, the number-one use case of Grammarly for professionals, into the picture. It is a central component to Grammarly’s vision of an agentic future.
Will Coda’s product change? We’re currently investing in improving your Coda docs experience, as you can see in Lane’s post. We also have a number of ideas from the Superhuman acquisition that will be brought over to the Coda products as well — more on this later. In any case, we’ll continue to invest heavily in the product you love, and you can expect new and improved features in the next few months.
How can I learn more? Visit the Grammarly blog for the full announcement and additional details.
Stay tuned— we’ll share more details in the coming months.
I love using Coda and look forward to what Grammarly brings to the table.
One thing that should already work better is the Coda AI Assistant. I am not great with Coda formulas. I have asked AI Assistant for help a couple of times only to find the advice is not able to be implemented as described. Amazingly, Perplexity, Grok and Claude all give better answers, using actual Coda formula syntax, which Coda AI does not. I hope this situation is on your radar for attention.
The comment is valid and polite and perfectly aligned with l’esprit de corps of this community.
It may be pointing out a negative view on the product.
But that has never been disallowed here before!
It does contain a link at the end to the authors own website.
So it does have some blatent self-promotion going on at the bottom.
Is that now grounds for having our comments blocked?
Is that a new policy? Or have I just missed it in the past?
THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE:
This forum is one of the BEST in the industry for its spirit of openess, helpfulness, friendlyness, and supportiveness to ALL levels and types of Coda makers.
But that is FRAGILE. I have seen so many similar forums decent into nastiness and petulance because of poor moderation. So I am a supporter of strict moderation. (I have blocked several posts myself on these grounds).
But I feel the blocking in this particular case is unwise.
Are we not allowed to make negative comments on the product features?
This reply may not be in the ideal thread. And the ‘self promotion’ at the end stands out as quite unusual for this forum.
So if those are the reasons for the blocking, fair enough. But please make the policy clearer.
As it stands, this has the appearance of moderators not liking anyone to criticize the Coda product or strategy.
I think it’s just Discourse’s automatic behavior. When you’re a new user, it won’t let you include links (or multiple links — I don’t remember really) so if you’re writing your first post from a website, it simply will ask you to remove the links and then post. But here the first post was created through an email reply, and the email probably had a signature with links to about.me and so on, and hence it got flagged automatically. Nothing personal.
Welcome to the Community, @Rick_Wolnitzek, apologies for the troubles
Hi @Agile_Dynamics, your concerns are very much heard. In this case, this was simply a false positive because, as @Paul_Danyliuk correctly guessed, @Rick_Wolnitzek’s first post contained multiple links that were unrelated to the content of the post. I’ve flagged this as a false positive and restored the post.
Hi @Rick_Wolnitzek, and welcome to the Coda community! We are indeed aware that Coda AI is not the best helper for Coda formula support right now. As we evolve our AI strategy, we absolutely are considering ways to provide more robust doc-building support. Thank you for the feedback!
Yes. I think the AI Assistant is quite horrible. Many times, I need help with a formula, and you have to overexplain to get it to understand what you need, then the formula doens’t work anyway. I have far better luck with Chat GPT or Grok than I ever do with AI Assitant. I never use AI Assistant now because it just doesn’t do what I want it to do. Ever.
The most frustrating thing is I’m asking INSIDE Coda, but you have to specifically state to write formulas in Coda’s formula language, or you get a completely unusable code. But even showing the context as “This Page” doesn’t work. It can’t seem to analyze what is on the page. So the contexts are pretty pointless.
I’m really hoping for a major update to the AI Assistant because right now, it’s simply horrible.
As a heavy Coda user and a neurodiverse teacher struggling under a firehose of emails, I’m just going to be here with my hands out Oliver Twist-style pleading for a beta key or something!
I am deeply curious to see where this all goes. Honestly, having Coda and email side-by-side in a standalone desktop app might be a dream come true for my working life.
Have you tried to integrate your email (Either gmail or outlook) using the relevant pack?
Getting your emails into Coda gives you extensive functionality to classify them, create views for specific topics and even respond to them directly from Coda.
