★ The team behind it
Who runs
Who runs
this place.
Maya Boyaz
Founder · CEO
Dan Park
Co-founder · Eng
Iris Hashimoto
Head of Writers
Tomás Reyes
Customer Ops
We started with 412 writers spread across 5 continents — then we got picky. Today we're 30, hand-picked, mostly named in your inbox. No VC, no scammy parent company. Just writers and the students who hire them.
The first version of EssayScribez was a Google Doc. Two grad students traded essay edits with friends, then friends-of-friends, then strangers, and the inbox got loud. Within a year there were six of them in a Brooklyn apartment writing through finals.
What started as a side hustle became the thing. Writers got picky about who joined. Students got picky about who they hired back. We built infrastructure to make matching not-terrible.
"We are the platform we wanted when we were the students."
By 2018 we'd grown to 412 writers across 5 continents — too big to keep quality consistent. So we cut deep, kept only the top 7%, and rebuilt around them. We're now 30 hand-picked writers, papers-per-month measured in the thousands, and we still pay better than every competitor we have measured against. That is the whole story.
Writers see 68% of every order. Industry average is closer to 40%.
We trimmed from 412 writers down to 30 hand-picked ones. Smaller, sharper, every one of them named in your inbox.
We use AI internally for proofing, never to write the paper. Your writer is a person on the other side of the chat.
Writers never see your name. Schools never see us. We do not data-mine, period.