HFS Hot Vendor: WRITER

WRITER profile

  • Lead Author: David Cushman
  • Product/Service/Hybrid: Product
  • Primary Emerging Tech: AI/GenAI
  • Secondary Emerging Tech: No Code/Low Code
  • Functional Focus Business:
  • Functional Focus IT: Agentic AI enterprise platform
  • Industry: Not Applicable
  • Next Gen Delivery Models: Services as software
  • HQ Based: San Francisco, CA
  • Published: 2025 Q3
WRITER

WRITER provides a full-stack platform for enterprises to build, activate, and supervise custom AI agents. It provides a unified design environment for business technologists and professional developers to collaborate on building agents. This includes a no-code/lowcode configuration experience for business users and code SDKs, and logic blocks for developers to encourage shared ownership across business and IT.

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