Can an agent replace Grammarly?
Grammar, spelling and tone checking across everything you type.
Yes, on capability. The one thing worth weighing is that Grammarly works everywhere you type without you asking, and a habit that requires no decision beats a better tool you have to open.
- Indicative spend
- €30/mo
- What it actually costs
- from €12/user/mo, €15 for business
- Verdict
- The product was the labour. An agent and somewhere to put the data covers it.
What the agent takes over
Every job this product exists to perform, with our verdict on each. Follow one through for the step-by-step breakdown.
- CopywritingHalf. An agent generates twenty competent variations faster than a copywriter writes one, which is genuinely useful for testing. Choosing the one that is actually right still needs someone with taste and context.HALF
- Content writingHalf. An agent gets you a structurally sound draft in minutes and will never get you a piece worth sharing on its own. The gap is not writing ability — it is that it has nothing of its own to say.HALF
- DocumentationYes, and it fixes the real problem, which was never writing documentation but keeping it true. An agent regenerates docs as the code changes, which no human team has ever sustainably managed.YES
Why it does not survive
Ubiquity of the input layer, not the checking.
What you would still need it for
- The always-on habit, which is a real behavioural advantage
What replaces it
- An agent editing against your style guide, which does more than grammar
The brief
What you would tell an agent to take over from Grammarly, assembled from the jobs above.
I want to cancel Grammarly. It currently does: Grammar, spelling and tone checking across everything you type. Take over this work: - Copywriting — HALF. Half. An agent generates twenty competent variations faster than a copywriter writes one, which is genuinely useful for testing. Choosing the one that is actually right still needs someone with taste and context. - Content writing — HALF. Half. An agent gets you a structurally sound draft in minutes and will never get you a piece worth sharing on its own. The gap is not writing ability — it is that it has nothing of its own to say. - Documentation — YES. Yes, and it fixes the real problem, which was never writing documentation but keeping it true. An agent regenerates docs as the code changes, which no human team has ever sustainably managed. Do not take over: - The always-on habit, which is a real behavioural advantage These stay with me across all of it: - Positioning - The final call - Anything that makes a promise you have to keep - The argument - Anything drawn from your own experience - Final edit and the decision to publish - Architectural rationale - Deciding what deserves documenting - The overall narrative Before we start, tell me: which of these you cannot do with the access I can actually give you, and what would break if this ran unattended for a month. — brief built at cananagentdo.com/grammarly
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Replace Grammarly
That is €30 a month back, and one fewer login. The work is connecting an agent to the systems Grammarly was sitting between.
Build the replacementPrices are indicative list rates for a small team and change often — check yours before cancelling anything.