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How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I.

Habib's family fled the Lebanese Civil War to Canada in 1990. As the only English speaker in her family, she often served as an interpreter, a role that later shaped her interest in language technology.

Earlier this month, Writer co-founder and CEO May Habib took the stage at the HumanX conference in San Francisco to discuss with Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas why so many companies’ A.I. strategies are failing. In a landscape where 95 percent of enterprise generative A.I. pilots fail to deliver returns, Writer has carved out a role helping Fortune 500 companies build A.I. agents and automated workflows that integrate with existing systems. Its offerings include Writer Agent, a platform for executing multi-step tasks, and Palmyra, a proprietary family of large language models built for enterprise use. The San Francisco-based startup last raised $200 million in November 2024 at a $1.9 billion valuation. If a gold rush rewards shovel sellers, the A.I. race rewards practical implementation.

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Habib and her co-founder and CTO, Waseem Alshikh, met in Dubai in 2011 after she reached out on Twitter about his work in statistical machine translation. The connection quickly turned into a........

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