Superhuman Coda

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Hi,

if you go to superhuman.com and check the pictures of Coda or even the gifs, it looks like an app design, is it planned to have an app like shown?

It looks actually great

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I believe that this brief animation of Coda as a kind of ‘app builder’ accurately reflects the goals of the Coda team. (But I am not a Codan, so that’s just speculation on my behalf.)

However, from recent conversations with Codans, I am reassured that Coda will continue to be invested in, developed, and improved to fulfil its unique position within the Superhuman family.

”The all-in-one AI workspace for teams
Build everything from wikis, through project plans, to goal trackers — keeping everyone perfectly in sync.”

I feel that Superhuman Go takes the burden of AI Agent building from the Coda product.
And the Grammarly Document Editor (based on the Coda canvas) takes the burden of document editing off the Coda product.

So, what’s left is (as quoted above) a builder of workflows for teams, departments, and SMEs.

That’s how I interpret recent developments and the statements by @Shishir and his team.
It is what I am saying to my clients.

But it could just be wishful thinking on my part.
We shall see soon enough!

Max

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My problem is that it flatters to deceive. I have to use Docs or Word as Coda is not quite good enough as a Document Writing tool and Obsidian is better for storing random thoughts as even “markdown” gives better document feel.

I love the fact that I can convert a Document to a “website” by pressing a button but it is still not the final product!

I pay for Coda but struggle to get full value.

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I think we are slowly realizing that Coda plays two roles in the Superhuman product strategy:

  1. As a Superhuman assistant to transient tasks. It provides a floating foundation for writing, data, contexts, etc.
  2. As a business/enterprise platform for deep work where data, text, and imagery are produced and managed at scale, and where such resources must occasionally manifest in transient tasks.

My deeper take…

In Superhuman’s product ecosystem, Coda acts as a versatile linchpin, balancing transient tasks and deep work while addressing both human and agentic needs. For humans, it provides a nimble assistant for ephemeral activities—seamlessly integrating writing, data, and contexts to minimize friction in quick emails or brainstorming—while scaling as an enterprise platform for collaborative production and management of vast text, data, and imagery, allowing structured resources to inform ad-hoc demands fluidly.

Equally vital are agentic contexts that empower AI agents in this harmony: dynamic scaffolds with semantic depth, provenance, and composable APIs enable autonomous orchestration of workflows, from anticipating escalations in transient tasks to generating reports from large-scale archives in deep work. Without evolvable, fault-tolerant foundations—featuring versioned datasets and reasoning traces—agents risk hallucinations; with them, they amplify human velocity, co-authoring outcomes in a distributed intelligence paradigm that transcends individual limits. I think Coda can address all of these requirements.

As for the economics, I have a hunch that the revenue from Coda (and all the adjacent services) could drastically overshadow the revenue from Superhuman GO. This is iPhone 101 from January 9, 2007, @ 9:41 a.m., BYOD: win the hearts and minds of people because we mostly work for enterprises.

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Have you defined what it is that you need to get “full value”?

If you have, and you have roadblocks on getting there, the community would be very willing to help you overcome those roadblocks. But first you need to have a goal…

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