Grammarly is a keylogger. It’s astounding any enterprise allows it to run on their endpoints.

One day, we will see a demand for services that are the opposite of "Superhuman". For example, a service like: "Deteriorate this text and make it look weirdly human. Add some typos and errors here and there, so that the final output looks 100% human-written."

I don’t like it, but I’m not surprised a writing tool got invaded with LLM features.

Even if we haven't hit the LLM ceiling, we've hit a ceiling on branding for sure. I'm interested to see where these names go next. Uberbeing! Omnipotence Plugin!

"Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI for its productivity suite. Neither companies provided details about the financial terms of the deal..... Superhuman was founded by Rahul Vohra, Vivek Sodera, and Conrad Irwin. The company raised more than $114 million in funding from backers including a16z, IVP, and Tiger Global, with its last valuation at $825 million, according to data from venture data analytics firm Traxcn." [1]

Interested to understand what would be the terms of the deal if Superhuman was valued at $825mm and what the founders cleared if the all the VCs rounds had 2-3x liquidation preferences.

edit: added source

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/grammarly-acquires-ai-emai...

This stuff happens all the time for a tech blog they sure don’t know the industry.

Google acquired Flutter, a desktop app which let you control your music playback with hand gestures, only to reuse the branding for the yet another ghost town framework of theirs.

AIs are pretty bad at rewriting, they always pick gimmickey marketing words. I always thought of Grammarly as a premium entry into that segment for proper professional writing. Shame it’s going the way of slop.

After reading this article I'm still wondering whether they're claiming to be the Übermensch or tailoring their services for them.

Either way, I'm not so sure spellchecking and the Superman has the kind of connection that would make for efficient branding.

Official post: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/introducing-new-super...