The Full-Stack Enterprise AI Platform
The consensus on Writer: Choose Writer if you want to build proprietary LLMs and enterprise AI systems from the ground up — but expect an intense, high-expectations environment.
Writer isn't wrapping someone else's API and calling it AI. Founded by May Habib and Waseem AlShikh, the company builds its own Palmyra family of large language models from scratch, trains them on enterprise data, and ships a full-stack platform that Fortune 500 companies use to automate knowledge work. The engineering culture is defined by genuine technical depth — you're training models, building inference infrastructure, and designing agentic workflows, not stitching together third-party services. Writer open-sources its framework and smaller models, giving back to the community while competing at the enterprise tier. The trade-off is intensity: the bar is high, the pace is fast, and work-life balance is a known weak spot.
Writer trains its own family of large language models (Palmyra) optimized for enterprise use cases. Engineers work on pre-training, fine-tuning, RLHF, and inference optimization — real ML engineering.
Writer Framework is an open-source Python framework for building AI apps. Palmyra Small and Base models are publicly available. View on GitHub →
Full-stack AI platform including Knowledge Graph, AI Studio, and agentic workflows. Engineers build the entire stack from model training to production deployment for Fortune 500 clients.
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