Highlight happy hour, but instead of beer it’s an 820,000 Scoville unit hot sauce. No employees were harmed in the making of this (though some were definitely changed). Shout out @firstwefeast 🌶️

AI can plausibly get you to 100x productivity, but it’s just as important to talk about what that costs downstream: 100x more review 100x more routing 100x more rebuilding We learned this ourselves. More suggested actions just meant more decisions to make. We’ve recalibrated to pull back and thoughtfully deploy actions, giving people room for meaningful work without adding to the coordination burden.

Highlight is hiring across Design, Engineering & Ops (SF based). A few JDs below ⬇️ Design: jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai… Backend Eng: jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai… Ops Manager: jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai…

Chat has largely become the go-to AI interface for work. But valuable AI needs to do more than provide a good response in a chat box. It needs to maintain context as work evolves, understand the state of an ongoing task, and coordinate the actions that follow. At Highlight, we’re building toward AI that connects conversation to execution. A look under the hood: highlightai.com/blog/agentic…

You know the answer exists somewhere: Slack, a meeting note, a project doc, a weeks-old email thread. So you spend 20 minutes searching, another 10 checking whether the info is current, then message someone to fill the gaps. Constantly rebuilding context is exhausting. It leaves less time for the creative, rewarding, uniquely human work that matters. We wrote about how Highlight is making more room for it: highlightai.com/blog/collect…

In the business of making people more capable, never less necessary 👇

A preemptive statement from our cofounder Josh (@Galkon): "If I ever shill a product that operates on the premise of outsourcing your mindfulness, you can assume I've been replaced by a body double like Avril Lavigne."

A spreadsheet should decide what follow-up you owe after a meeting, not who you love. But according to @WSJ, “love hackers” are running dates and scoring partners in trackers. AI should automate the spreadsheet-shaped work around our lives, not the judgment within them. That’s Highlight’s line in the sand.

We’re seeing more of this sentiment as we build. The test for AI: does it pull you deeper into the work or turn you into a manager of machines? Output ≠ progress if it costs immersion, joy, and creativity (the stuff people actually want to spend time on). AI should absorb context switching. More from Highlight coming 🔜

What Taco Tuesday looks like at Highlight (shoutout @HeyTaco for giving us a fun way to recognize the team and the great work they’re doing) 🌮 We’re hiring for several key roles across design, ops, and engineering. Join the team (tacos guaranteed): jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai.

Why does AI forget between sessions? Memory works in 3 layers: what's right in front of it, what's saved for later, and what's happening live. But every tool still only knows what one person told it. The gap between what you know and what your team knows? Still unsolved. highlightai.com/blog/how-ai-…

We've been quietly building something that changes the end of every meeting. When a meeting wraps, Highlight already has your follow-ups drafted. A Notion doc, a stakeholder email, a Slack message to the channel. You just review and send. Try it with your team. Join the waitlist: highlightai.typeform.com/to/…

"I'll follow up on that." "Remind me next week." "Don't let me forget this." Those commitments are scattered across your meetings, emails, and slack. Highlight collects them all so that nothing slips. Join our waitlist → highlightai.com

We collapsed the design → engineering handoff by getting to runnable prototypes earlier. And it reorganized how we think about the designer's job entirely. Sam's write-up on what the new loop looks like: highlightai.com/blog/cheap-c…

We’re hiring a Founding Product Marketer. This role will own the full narrative of our product from the ground up—positioning, GTM, and sales enablement from scratch. If you’ve ever wanted to define how a new product shows up in the world, apply below: jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai…

We rebuilt our agentic chat backend, cutting P90 TTFT from 8000ms to 300ms with @Cloudflare's durable objects Find out why we gave every agent it’s own tiny database: highlightai.com/blog/agentic…

Whirlwind 48 hours at Highlight. 🌪️ The response to our Series A and our new CEO has been incredible. We’re honored to see the vision for a proactive team assistant resonate so deeply. Huge shout-out to @chrismetinko at @Axios for the exclusive! Thank you to others who covered the announcement @theinformation @fortune @wsj @vcnewsdaily and more!

We are hiring in SF across engineering, design, and marketing. If you want to help solve one of the hardest problems in the modern workplace, context fragmentation, come build with us. From Meta, Discord & Medal to Highlight we know how to build products users love. We’re building the proactive assistant for teams: a shared memory across all your tools and organization. Join us: jobs.ashbyhq.com/highlightai

No more manual prompting. Highlight learns from your team’s actual work to automate the busywork before you even realize it’s on your plate. We’re building the brain that knows your team and handles the noise. highlightai.com/mission

Most high-performing teams are actually just brilliant people doing manual labor. Reading chats, writing tickets, and chasing updates isn’t "work", it’s a tax on your time. We’re solving this by evolving Highlight from a personal assistant into shared team intelligence.