Grammarly Building Workspace With Coda

This deal shows Grammarly is moving from fixing sentences at the edge of other apps to owning the workspace where work gets created. Coda gives Grammarly a place where teams can write docs, store structured data in tables, run approvals and project trackers, and then apply AI on top of that shared context. That is a much bigger and stickier job than suggesting edits inside Gmail or Google Docs.

• Coda changes the product surface. Instead of only appearing as a browser extension across other tools, Grammarly can now offer a native canvas for docs, databases, and workflows. That makes it look more like Notion, which bundles pages, data, and AI in one workspace and uses that bundle to drive higher tier seat expansion.
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• The strategic reason is defensive as much as offensive. AI has made drafting, rewriting, and tone shifting easier to copy, and Microsoft, Google, and Notion now bundle those features into their own suites. Owning Coda gives Grammarly proprietary workflow context, not just text in a box, which makes its AI more useful and harder to displace.
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• The company is also widening the monetization model. Grammarly had roughly $650M ARR at the end of 2024 and about $700M by May 2025, with Coda contributing acquired revenue and a more team centric product motion. The later Superhuman deal reinforces that the plan is to assemble a broader work suite across docs, email, and adjacent categories.
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Going forward, the winners in writing software are likely to be the companies that pair generation with a system of record for work. Grammarly is building toward that end state, where AI does not just polish text but helps run the document, meeting, email, and workflow stack around it.