Huge thank you to Ellen McGirt and the team at Inc. Magazine for the KILLER feature! It’s one thing to make a list. It’s another thing entirely to have someone so BEAUTIFULLY articulate the "why" behind everything Waseem Alshikh and I have poured ourselves into over the last five years. What Ellen got so right is our obsession with building a category-defining platform that is powering a future of work that’s radically simpler and more human. From day one, Waseem and I built WRITER differently. While the rest of the industry chased hype, we went heads-down building frontier AI that enterprises can actually trust with their brands. AI that’s secure, reliable, adaptable, and intuitive so that non-technical people can fully leverage the power of agents. We’ve never tried to be everything for everyone. We know exactly who we're building for. The business users inside the world's biggest companies who are done with broken processes and ready to build something better. The changemakers who aren’t waiting for permission and are rethinking how work gets done. And we've always had an unapologetically human view of what AI should do at work. AI is a floor that lifts the ceiling of what people can achieve, amplifying what makes us all irreplaceable: our creativity, intuition, and our judgment. If you’ve spent five minutes with me, you know our mantra: we’re here to make our customers f***ing famous. Watching this team bring that promise to life, at the scale we're operating now, is pretty surreal. So, SO proud of this team. And so grateful to share our story like this and to be recognized on the #IncFemaleFounders list AGAIN alongside such badass company! https://lnkd.in/e9EhbRde
It was great spending time with the team yesterday... agree on the legacy sh$t!... Best!
WRITER went from Qordoba, a localization platform, to a full-stack enterprise AI company valued at nearly $2 billion. 300 enterprise clients. Vanguard, Prudential, AstraZeneca on the roster. And the broader AI conversation still treats enterprise platforms like a footnote to the consumer hype cycle. That gap between what Writer actually built and how much airtime it gets relative to the noise is exactly why the Inc. piece needed to exist. Most founders in this space are optimizing for attention. May and Waseem optimized for the procurement process at regulated Fortune 500s, which is a fundamentally different game and a harder one to win. Congrats to May Habib and the whole Writer team. Four consecutive years on the Inc. Female Founders list is straight trajectory.
💥 I remember when you just started out and called it “my first child, my baby…” you are a true legend and love how diligent, fierce and visionary you are true beacon for all women. That’s in the boardroom and most cherished as a friend .. keep shining the world is watching and they have not see half of it yet .. the best is yet to come!
So well earned and deserved May Habib! Your constant commitment to have "an unapologetically human view of what AI should do at work. AI is a floor that lifts the ceiling of what people can achieve, amplifying what makes us all irreplaceable: our creativity, intuition, and our judgment" is facts. And a truth that must be embraced and embodied by those who build, deploy and use AI (aka: that means everyone).
The most interesting force in enterprise AI right now might be the people "who are done with broken processes". Refreshing to see a technology company start there.
Kudos to May, for earning such a meaningful recognition. You keep redefining excellence and inspiring progress across the industry !
Huge undertaking, a ton of enterprises are not even Cloud native yet :-)
Congratulations May Habib for a well deserved recognition. Keep raising the bar... you are making the entire industry better.