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5 Productivity companies — how they build with AI

How Productivity companies build with AI — which foundational models they run and how directly, ranked by proximity to the model. Avg Foundation Proximity Score 80/100.

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Grammarly

Productivity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Long-standing in-house NLP models plus GPT for generative rewriting.

Airtable

Productivity · AWS · Direct API

Low-code database whose 'spreadsheet-database' is backed by MySQL with heavy Redis caching on AWS. Airtable AI/Cobuilder routes to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Asana

Productivity · Hybrid · Direct API

Asana runs a large-scale, stateful, microservice-style backend with autoscaling infrastructure and a dedicated Production Infrastructure pod for observability and platform reliability, layered behind a multi-region, hybrid cloud deployment. Its data stack separates transactional MySQL/Aurora stores from analytical event pipelines and a cloud data warehouse used by growth and analytics teams.

monday.com

Productivity · AWS · Direct API

Work OS; AI blocks on OpenAI over board data.

Notion

Productivity · AWS · Direct API

Block-based docs stored in a heavily sharded PostgreSQL fleet on AWS (publicly documented re-sharding to hundreds of shards). Notion AI routes to OpenAI and Anthropic models.

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