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As Superhuman Builds an Always-On A.I., CEO Shishir Mehrotra Draws a Human Line

Superhuman is building an always-present A.I. assistant, while CEO Shishir Mehrotra warns against outsourcing judgment and insight.

In June, Superhuman acquired GPTZero, a New York-based startup best known for building one of the most popular tools for detecting A.I. in student writing. Its young co-founders and team have since joined Superhuman’s newly formed “authenticity” group, where they’re working to integrate detection capabilities across the company’s products, most notably Superhuman Go, an A.I. assistant designed to operate across everything a user does online.

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The deal marks the latest step in a rapid transformation led by CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who took the helm in early 2025 after the company, then called Grammarly, acquired his productivity startup, Coda. That summer, Grammarly bought Superhuman Mail, a power-user email tool built around the idea of “zero inbox.” In October 2025, Mehrotra renamed the combined company Superhuman, signaling an ambition to build a suite of A.I. tools beyond a writing assistant.

Before founding Coda in 2014, Mehrotra built and launched products at YouTube and Microsoft. He is replicating a familiar Big Tech playbook—Google became Alphabet in 2015; Facebook became Meta in 2021—where a well-known product evolves into something more........

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