For decades, the core tools of office productivity, word processors, spreadsheets, slide decks, have remained largely untouched. While the world adopted smartphones, cloud computing, and now AI, workplace software has struggled to keep up.
Context, a Palo Alto-based startup founded just last year, wants to change that. After raising an $11 million seed round at a $70 million valuation last month, the company today launched the general availability (GA) of what it claims is the first truly AI-native office suite.
Context’s platform promises to do more than just sprinkle AI features into legacy tools. It’s rebuilding the office suite from the ground up, allowing users to generate polished documents, executive-ready presentations, complex spreadsheets, and even full research reports, by simply describing what they want.
“Office software has barely evolved since the 1990s, leaving billions of hours trapped in manual, repetitive processes,” explained Joseph Semrai, Founder & CEO of Context. “Context’s AI-native workspace frees knowledge workers to focus on uniquely human tasks: strategizing, decision-making, and creativity, while intelligent agents handle the rest.”
At the heart of Context is what the company calls its “Context Engine,” a proprietary system that can process over 50 million tokens of context without quality degradation. That enables it to pull from dense internal data, notes, emails, reports, and generate complete work products with relevant citations and structure.
Unlike Microsoft Copilot or Google Workspace AI features, Context isn’t built on top of legacy tools. It’s a standalone suite designed for an AI-first world, complete with:
- AI Documents for generating reports, memos, and proposals
- AI Slides for building presentation decks with coherent narrative flow
- AI Spreadsheets that interpret raw data and produce live visualizations
- Deep Research for synthesizing internal and public sources
- Enterprise Search to surface insights from across a company’s tools and files
- Data Analyst for writing and debugging code on demand
The startup says it’s already working with a range of enterprise and government users, with over 60,000 professionals signed up ahead of the public launch. Early traction helped Context attract a roster of top investors, including Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and General Catalyst.
Context’s infrastructure is also optimized for Qualcomm’s next-generation NPUs, which means the product can run locally on-device with low latency and high privacy, something the team believes is crucial for government and highly regulated industries.
“Context will be the backbone of AI-powered productivity, unlocking billions in value currently trapped in legacy workflows for Fortune 500s and governments alike”, said Tushar Gupta, Managing Director of North America at Qualcomm Ventures. “We’re excited to partner closely with a visionary team that is truly reshaping the future of knowledge work.”
“While frontier Labs have demonstrated AI’s potential, Context transforms that potential into reality. It delivers beautiful, concise, accurate and thorough content – from presentations to reports – by leveraging proprietary and public data sources through a carefully orchestrated combination of the best frontier multi-modal AI systems, said Shahin Farshchi, PhD, a General Partner at Lux Capital. “Law firms, auditors, financial institutions, researchers and strategic consultancies can now offer revolutionary experiences to their clients while freeing their talented staff to focus on higher-value firm-building activities.”
As the market for AI productivity tools heats up, Context is betting that starting from scratch, not patching over legacy tools, is the best way to deliver on AI’s promise.
“Every week, billions of hours are lost to manual work that should already be automated,” Semrai said. “We’re building the system that finally makes that possible.”
Users can sign up today at https://www.context.ai/.
