How Gaurav Vohra from Superhuman uses Flow

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Gaurav Vohra

Startup Advisor & Growth Leader

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Advisors, Consultants, Business Leaders

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Gaurav Vohra helped build Superhuman. Now he’s helping build dozens more groundbreaking companies.

About Gaurav

After five years in consulting, Gaurav moved to San Francisco and helped build Superhuman from the ground up: Starting, scaling and leading their growth, product, marketing and analytics functions. Now, he’s a full-time advisor to 10+ groundbreaking companies, while raising 3 children. For someone whose value is directly tied to how fast and clearly they can respond, Gaurav’s workflow had to evolve.

Before Flow: a voice-first communicator (by necessity)

Gaurav already relied on voice — messaging teammates, giving notes, and capturing thoughts in transit. But traditional voice tools created more friction than they solved.

The problem:

Built-in dictation needed too much editing after the fact
Voice notes were messy, unsearchable, and hard to act on
Audio forced recipients to listen instead of scan
Notes were full of filler words, rambles, and awkward phrasing

The result:

Gaurav had to manually rewrite things himself
Teammate inconvenience listening to voice notes
His inbox was a constant backlog of unprocessed info

"I always felt uncomfortable sending voice messages. It's inconvenient for the recipient. I just want to convey the message clearly."

The “surprisingly fast” advisor

Advising dozens of companies means constant back-and-forth. Gaurav batches calls midday, but most replies happen via text or email. Typing used to slow him down. With Flow, he hits a shortcut, speaks, and sends — often in under a minute, whatever time of day. Fast replies keep his responses fast and relationships strong. Flow also helps with context-switching between founders at different companies.

Full-on parenting meets full-time advising

Raising 3 kids involves plenty of drop-offs, pick-ups, classes, appointments — and plenty of idle time between. Apple voice-to-text was clunky. Flow lets Gaurav speak casually and reply fast. Crucially, responding fast allows him to be more present with family, not thinking about a message backlog.

A typical Flow day:

Focused desktop sessions
Phone while traveling between commitments
“Surprisingly fast” SMS and email replies

Top Apps from Gaurav’s Flow State:

Messages – founder comms
Superhuman – client email
Slack – team deep dives

Gaurav’s communication workflow: before vs. after WisprFlow

Before-Flow

After-Flow

Impact

Desktop
Communication

130 WPM typing speed when focused. Hands tied to keyboard.

Limited to desk-bound responses.

150-160 WPM speaking.

Less mental overhead to communicate.

2-3x faster communication

Mobile
Communication

Apple Voice-to-Text with manual punctuation dictation. Extremely slow and frustrating.

Avoided detailed responses.

Natural speech recognition with automatic punctuation and nuance.

One-handed operation. Detailed responses, even on-the-go or holding a sleeping child.

5x faster mobile responses

Context
Switching

Communication bottleneck. Frictions in switching context immediately, especially important when dealing with multiple different clients.

Frustrated by voice messages to others. Physical limitations.

Seamless switching.  Allowed him to walk between meetings while responding.

Physical freedom.

Eliminated bottlenecks

Morning Workflow
(6-10 AM)

Childcare duties. School run.

Limited communication windows.

Family duties.

Able to rapidly unblock progress.

Seamless integration

Work Hours
(10 AM-5 PM)

Desk-bound for quality responses

Quality responses from anywhere.

Meeting prep while walking.

Enhanced flexibility

Client
Experience

Reasonable response time. Wanted to streamline the process further and facilitate richer, more detailed communication.

“Surprisingly fast” responses.

Consistent detailed guidance.

Enhanced advisor value.

High-quality, fast delivery
5x more clients

Work and family; no longer either/or

Flow helps Gaurav preserve and ring-fence deep work and personal time. By enabling faster replies, he can put his phone away with the confidence no-one is waiting on him — meaning more quality time for family.

He dictates while walking
Flow eliminates physical barriers to quality
He stays connected without being “always on”

“I read, think, speak.
That’s the loop now.”

Flow as a conduit for founders

Founders juggle nonstop context-switching and are often the main communication channel in their company (AKA a bottleneck). Flow helps them speak their thoughts and instantly turn them into clear, shareable writing—so nothing gets stuck in their heads. It turns mental clarity into team-wide clarity—without the lag.

“I think every founder, every CEO in particular, should use Flow. They keep telling me, “I'm so underwater, between sales and recruiting and engineering and product and investors...”; at least one thing they can do is speed up the way they communicate.”

With Flow, communication becomes fast, fluid, and frictionless. Leaders unblock teams, share direction, and stay responsive—all without getting stuck in writing mode.

TL;DR: if you talk fast, flow faster

Gaurav used to rely on voice to work faster. But it created mess downstream. Now, Flow turns his thoughts into immediate value — polished, clear, and instantly usable.

Fast, Good Advice