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Writer

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WRITER provides enterprises a secure full-stack generative AI platform for deploying applications, agents, and automated workflows.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees201-1000
Funding$369M
Valuation$1.9B
Revenue$40m ARR
51 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 16h ago
AI / MLFoundation Model ProviderB2B SaaSSeries C$200M-$1B

About

WRITER builds a full-stack generative AI platform for large enterprises, enabling secure AI applications and agents for mission-critical workflows. Its differentiation is an integrated stack combining Palmyra LLMs, graph-based retrieval-augmented generation, customizable guardrails, and governance, with customers including Accenture, Intuit, Salesforce, Uber, and Vanguard.

Market

Writer competes in the enterprise generative AI and agentic-work platform market, positioning itself as a full-stack platform for building, deploying, and supervising AI agents rather than only as a writing assistant or standalone model provider. It differentiates through the combination of proprietary Palmyra LLMs, graph-based RAG via Knowledge Graph, enterprise guardrails, observability, low-code agent development, and prebuilt agents for business workflows.

Target Customers

Writer targets large enterprises, especially Fortune 500 companies across finance, healthcare, retail, technology, and other regulated or brand-sensitive industries. Its primary users and buyers are IT and business teams seeking secure, compliant, on-brand AI agents grounded in company data.

At a Glance

Problem

Enterprise teams want to use generative AI to improve productivity and automate work, but adoption is constrained by security risks, weak or difficult-to-measure ROI, and the need to keep outputs aligned with company context, brand, and compliance requirements. WRITER’s 2026 survey found that 79% of executives faced AI-adoption challenges, including ROI gaps and security risks, while agentic AI adds a further governance problem: companies must supervise autonomous actions and outcomes, not merely model inputs and outputs.

The killer use case is turning repeatable, knowledge-intensive workflows into governed AI agents that can execute across enterprise data and tools. Examples include Salesforce using WRITER across workflows involving 3,000 employees and Fortune 500 brands using infrastructure for on-brand execution at scale, addressing the economic need to increase throughput and consistency without adding equivalent human effort.

Product / Service

WRITER is a full-stack enterprise generative-AI and agent platform. Its Palmyra family of large language models provides the underlying AI, while WRITER Agent autonomously plans and executes work across a company’s data and tools, grounded in organizational context and governed by enterprise controls. The platform is designed to securely build and deploy agents that automate entire workflows rather than provide only standalone text generation.

The delivery model is an end-to-end enterprise software platform with governance and supervision built in. IT and business teams can create custom agents, connect them to shared resources and operational tools, and use supervision capabilities to gain visibility and control at scale. The intended benefit is faster, more consistent, on-brand, and compliant execution of business work, with governance features designed for enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Market

WRITER competes in enterprise generative AI, agentic-AI platforms, and the adjacent content-AI and workflow-automation markets. Jasper is explicitly identified as WRITER’s closest competitor in content AI; other alternatives mentioned in the gathered market evidence include Claude for Enterprise, Notion AI, Typeface, and Writesonic. WRITER’s differentiation is its combination of enterprise LLMs, autonomous agents, workflow execution, and centralized governance rather than a narrow writing assistant.

The company has substantial commercial and financial traction rather than appearing pre-revenue. Its newsroom reported hundreds of customers, including KPMG, Intuit, Mars, E.L.F. Cosmetics, Uber, and Vanguard; early beta users included Uber, Salesforce, Franklin Templeton, and Commvault. WRITER announced a $200 million Series C at a $1.9 billion valuation in November 2024, and later reported $326 million in total venture capital at the same valuation. The gathered evidence does not provide a revenue figure, but the customer base, enterprise deployments, funding, and Fortune 500 positioning indicate a scaled enterprise software business.

Founders & Leadership

May HabibFounder
CEO & Co-founder
Waseem AlShikhFounder
CTO & Co-founder
Andy ShorkeyChief Revenue Officer
Diego LomantoChief Marketing Officer
Roger KopfmannChief Financial Officer
Brian O’ReillyChief Operating Officer
Jevan LenoxChief People Officer
Mina AlaghbandChief Customer Officer
Eric FreemanChief Information Security Officer
Kevin ChungChief Strategy Officer
Maureen LittleSVP Partnerships
Rowan ReynoldsGeneral Counsel
James LeeSVP, Strategic Operations & Growth
Muayad AliSVP, Software Engineering
Dan BikelVP, AI Research
Matan-Paul ShetritVP, Product Management
Doris JwoVP, Product Management
Maiko CookVP, Business Operations
Andrew RacineVP, Demand Generation & Growth
Glenda FeldenVP, Brand & Communications

Funding History

2012-03
SeedUndisclosed

Wamda Capital

2012-00
Angel$500K
2014-01
Series A$1.5M

MENA Venture Investments

2017-04
Series A$5M

Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners

2018-10
Series B$11.5M

Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Broadway Angels, Michael Stoppelman, The Perkins Fund

2019-03
Series B$4M
2019-03
Conventional DebtUndisclosed
2020-04
Series B$20.1M
2020-10
Series B$5M

Upfront Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Broadway Angels

2021-11
Series B$21M

Insight Partners

2023-09
Series B$100M

ICONIQ Growth

2024-11
Series C$200M

Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, ICONIQ Growth

Recent News

2026-07-30product
WRITER Agent adds Salesforce connector

WRITER added a Salesforce connector for WRITER Agent, enabling users to query CRM data, manage records, run reports, and automate workflows.

2026-05-28product
WRITER Solves AI's Brand Governance Crisis with New Infrastructure for Enterprise Marketing at Scale

WRITER released infrastructure that embeds brand voice, terminology, and style-guide enforcement into AI workflows. The release also introduced Semrush and Google Drive connectors and shared Projects for coordinated marketing work.

2026-05-05
WRITER Launches AI CMO Council to Lead the Agentic Marketing Revolution in the Enterprise

WRITER launched the AI CMO Council, a peer-learning community for senior executives leading AI transformation in marketing and related functions. The council is co-chaired by WRITER executives and Colin Kelton, formerly Vanguard's global CMO.

2026-04-07
WRITER Survey Finds 60% of Companies Plan to Lay Off Employees Who Won’t Adopt AI

WRITER released its second annual AI Adoption in the Enterprise survey, conducted with Workplace Intelligence and based on 2,400 employees and C-suite leaders. The announcement highlighted widespread implementation challenges, including lagging ROI, strategy gaps, and organizational power struggles.

2026-02-18partnership
Introducing the new partner program enterprise AI actually needs

WRITER introduced a new partner program designed to support enterprise AI transformation through a curated ecosystem, tiered collaboration, embedded learning, and co-innovation. The announcement describes partners as helping drive delivery excellence and ecosystem leadership.

2026-01-14
WRITER Appoints Mina Alaghband as First Chief Customer Officer to Accelerate Enterprise Transformation with Agentic AI

WRITER appointed Mina Alaghband as its first Chief Customer Officer. She will work with enterprise customers and oversee professional services, forward-deployed engineering, and AI adoption initiatives to help scale customer outcomes.

2025-12-02partnership
WRITER and AWS Team Up to Make Enterprise Agents More Scalable and Secure

WRITER announced a native Amazon Bedrock integration and a new agent supervision suite. Customers can use Bedrock-hosted and custom-trained models within WRITER agents under shared governance, guardrails, and observability controls.

2025-11-18product
WRITER Launches New AI Agent Experience to Power Everyday Work with Enterprise-wide Impact

WRITER expanded its platform with WRITER Agent and new Playbooks, Routines, Connectors, and Personality capabilities. The product is designed to help employees automate complex, cross-department workflows while connecting to third-party business systems.

Active Roles

51
San Francisco, CA/Legal/6d ago
San Francisco, CA/Marketing/14d ago
US-Office Hubs/Sales/17d ago
US-Office Hubs/Marketing/21d ago
San Francisco, CA/Sales/21d ago
London, UK/Customer Success Manager/34d ago
London, UK/Operations/34d ago
Support engineer$125k – $158k
New York City, NY/Operations/34d ago
San Francisco, CA/Professional Services/34d ago
London, UK/Professional Services/34d ago
New York City, NY/Professional Services/34d ago
Chicago, IL/Professional Services/34d ago
San Francisco, CA/Customer Success Manager/34d ago
London, UK/Customer Success Manager/34d ago
New York City, NY/Customer Success Manager/34d ago
Chicago, IL/Customer Success Manager/34d ago
San Francisco, CA/Sales/34d ago
London, UK/Sales/34d ago
New York City, NY/Sales/34d ago
Chicago, IL/Sales/34d ago

Business Model

WRITER sells software subscriptions: Starter is offered on monthly or annual per-seat plans with fixed credit limits, while Enterprise is sold through its sales team with regular seats, unlimited free users, and optional solution packs and services.

Products

AI HQ enterprise agent platformWRITER AgentAI Studio and low-code Agent BuilderReady-to-use AI agent libraryPalmyra enterprise LLMsKnowledge GraphConnectorsPlaybooks and Brand tools

Customers

AccentureAlly BankCommvaultFranklin TempletonIntuitLennarMarsMarriottPrudentialQualcommSalesforceUberVanguard

Tech Stack

Enterprise LLMs (Palmyra)Knowledge Graph / graph-based RAGAI guardrailsLow-code agent-building and application layerAI observabilityKubernetesHelmTerraformAWS, GCP, and AzurePython and Go

Competitors

OpenAI
Anthropic
Cohere
Glean
Typeface
Jasper

Key Investors

Upfront Ventures, Insight Partners, Iconiq Capital