Writer, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, is launching a unified AI agent platform designed to let any employee automate complex business workflows without writing code — a capability the company says distinguishes it from consumer-oriented tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.The platform, called Writer Agent, combines chat-based assistance with autonomous task execution in a single interface. Starting Tuesday, enterprise customers can use natural language to instruct the AI to create presentations, analyze financial data, generate marketing campaigns, or coordinate across multiple business systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workspace—then save those workflows as reusable “Playbooks” that run automatically on schedules.The announcement comes as enterprises struggle to move AI initiatives beyond pilot programs into production at scale. Writer CEO May Habib has been outspoken about this challenge, recently revealing that 42% of Fortune 500 executives surveyed by her company said AI is “tearing their company apart” due to coordination failures between departments.”We’re delivering an agent interface that is both incredibly powerful and radically simple to transform individual productivity into organizational impact,” Habib said in a statement. “Writer Agent is the difference between a single sales rep asking a chatbot to write an outreach email and an enterprise ensuring that 1,000 reps are all sending on-brand, compliant, and contextually-aware messages to target accounts.”How Writer is putting workflow automation in the hands of non-technical workersThe platform’s core innovation centers on making workflow automation accessible to non-technical employees—what Writer executives call “democratizing who gets to be a builder.”In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Doris Jwo, Writer’s director of product management, demonstrated how the system works: A user ty …
