Highlight

Highlight AI develops software that sits above the applications teams already use and captures the context of their work. Its desktop assistant runs on Mac and Windows and works across other applications on the computer, letting users select or highlight text to draft and edit content, ask questions with on-screen context, record and transcribe meetings, and search across weeks of conversations, decisions and documents. The product is positioned as capture-based: it records meetings without meeting bots across meeting platforms, and detects action items from user-selected apps.

The company also markets a team-oriented layer built around three steps it describes as Capture, Connect and Act: commitments and decisions from calls, messages and documents are captured, woven into a shared memory the whole team can query, and then turned into drafted next steps. Named product areas include Actions (drafting Linear tickets, Slack messages, emails and Notion docs for review and approval), Reminders (tracking spoken commitments and setting reminders), Skills (trigger-based recurring workflows whose outputs are staged for review) and Collaboration (retaining institutional knowledge). Coverage of its 2026 funding describes the company as building a "shared intelligence layer" or intelligent operating system for teams and AI agents, comprising user-controlled capture, a unified team memory engine and a proactive command center, operating above tools such as Slack, Zoom, Linear and Claude Code.

Highlight cites a statistic that most teams spend 24 hours a week on coordination work, and frames its premise as applying AI to the space between people rather than to individual productivity. Product pages advertise use cases for product managers, engineers, designers, recruiters and students.

Founding story

The team describes itself as a small group of engineers, designers and researchers who previously worked at companies including Discord, Medal.tv and Meta, and built the company on the premise that AI's opportunity lies in the space between people rather than in individual productivity.

Business model

Highlight distributes a desktop assistant for Mac and Windows that is offered free for writing and student use cases, alongside a team product for which prospective users join a waitlist. Sources do not state pricing tiers.

Traction

Marketing pages state the writing product is used by more than 500,000 users and that Highlight works across more than one million apps and websites; user testimonials are attributed to employees at Amazon, Google, Roblox, Framer and TikTok and to students.

Latest developments

In March 2026 Highlight AI announced $40 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from 359 Capital, General Catalyst, Valor Equity, Common Metal, Makers Fund, Collaborative Fund, Arcadia and SV Angel, to be used for product development, additional integrations with common work tools, and team expansion.