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May Habib

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May Habib is co-founder and CEO of WRITER, which develops AI models and agents for enterprise work. Her public writing focuses on connecting models to business context, workflows and the controls organizations need when deploying them.[1][4]

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May Habib

Education

Harvard University

Undergraduate degree, Economics, high honors

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Links

LinkedIn WRITER biography

Co-founder and chief executive officer · Writer

Career

Habib and Waseem AlShikh first worked on enterprise-content localization before launching WRITER in 2020. The company’s history describes experiments with transformers beginning in 2018. Her interview connects an interest in language technology with the barriers faced by people working in a language other than the one they grew up speaking.[1][5]

Contributions

Habib’s article on enterprise agents describes three connected requirements: a way to build agents, a place to use them and controls for IT teams. Her examples connect agents to company information and existing tasks instead of treating a model as a standalone employee. She argues that business teams and IT need to design these systems together. The customer examples in the article are company-reported deployments.[4]

Ideas

Habib argues that productivity gains from AI can widen or reduce existing inequalities depending on who can use the technology and how work changes. That concern helps explain WRITER’s focus on making language and workflow tools usable across an organization, rather than reserving them for specialist developers.[5]

Tools, writing & talks

Writing, research & talks

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    An enterprise founder’s view of agent builders, shared workflows and IT controls.

    Start with the three platform components and map them to one business process you know. No model-training background is required; distinguish the reported deployments from the article’s predictions.

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References

Qordoba logo by Ashley.coolman, 2019. Wikimedia Commons preview, unchanged. · CC BY-SA 4.0

Latest source check 2026-11-04

  1. [1] WRITER: current founders and company history

    writer.com · Checked 2026-11-04

  2. [2] May Habib: contributor-supplied World Economic Forum biography

    www.weforum.org · Checked 2026-11-04

  3. [3] May Habib: owned professional profile

    www.linkedin.com · Checked 2026-11-04

  4. [4] May Habib: the agentic future of work

    writer.com · Checked 2026-11-04

  5. [5] Humans of AI: original interview with May Habib

    writer.com · Checked 2026-11-04

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