The inbox sets your agenda
Whoever emails first decides what you work on. Important messages from a client or investor sit between newsletters and receipts.
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AI email assistant that writes the way you do.
An AI email assistant triages your inbox into three buckets, drafts replies in your voice and chases threads that went unanswered. It learns who matters to you and how you write. Drafts wait in your folder until you approve them, and by default nothing is ever sent for you.
What gets stuck today.
Replies take longer than they should
Most answers are three sentences you already know. Writing them still costs you the context switch, forty times a day.
Sent messages are never chased
You asked a supplier a question on Tuesday. By Friday nobody remembers that it is still unanswered, including you.
How an AI email assistant works through your inbox
| When | The assistant | You or your team | Result |
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| Every new email arriving in your main inbox | Labels it Needs you, Can wait or Handled, using the sender, history with you and the content, and moves newsletters and receipts out of the way. | You correct a label with one click; corrections are used for the next sort. | A Needs you folder with a handful of messages, not three hundred. |
| A message lands in Needs you and asks a question the assistant can answer from your files | Writes a draft reply in your voice, built from your past sent mail, pulling dates, prices or links from your calendar and documents. | You read, edit and press send yourself. The draft sits in your Gmail or Outlook drafts folder. | A reply that took ten seconds to approve instead of five minutes to write. |
| A thread passes 15 messages or 5 attendees | Posts a four-line summary at the top: the decision so far, who owes what, and the date that matters. | You use the summary to decide whether to join the thread or leave it. | You stop rereading long chains to find the one open question. |
| An email you sent has had no reply for 4 business days | Drafts a short nudge that quotes your original question and adds it to a "waiting on" list. | You approve the nudge or dismiss it if the topic is no longer live. | Open questions to suppliers and clients are chased without you tracking them. |
| A VIP sender, such as a major client or your accountant, emails you | Skips the normal sorting, pings you on your phone with a one-line summary and attaches a drafted reply. | You decide on the spot whether to answer now or schedule it. | The people who matter most never wait behind routine mail. |
| Friday at 4:00 PM | Lists unsent drafts and unanswered threads older than a week, and proposes to archive or answer each. | You clear the list in one sitting or delegate items by forwarding them to a teammate. | You close the week with an inbox that has nothing hidden in it. |
What your day looks like.
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7:30 AM
Overnight mail has been sorted. Eleven messages are marked Can wait, forty are handled, and four are waiting in Needs you.
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9:00 AM
You open Needs you. Three of the four already have drafts written in your tone, with the right dates filled in.
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9:10 AM
You approve two drafts, rewrite one line of the third and send all three yourself.
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11:45 AM
A long supplier thread is summarized: price agreed, delivery date still open, and your answer is the only one missing.
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2:30 PM
Your accountant emails. You get a phone alert with a one-line summary and a draft reply ready to review.
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4:00 PM
The waiting-on list shows two unanswered questions from Monday. You approve both nudges.
The tools you already use.
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Google Calendar
- Google Drive
- Notion
- Slack
- WhatsApp Business
If a tool has an API or an export, it can usually be connected.
It does the legwork. People make the calls.
Never auto-send by default
Drafts live in your drafts folder and only you press send. Auto-send can be switched on for one narrow category you name, and off again.
Voice learned from your mail
Tone is built from messages you have already sent, and you can mark phrases the assistant must never use or topics it must never answer.
Sensitive threads stay out
Legal, HR and personal senders can be excluded by name or label, so the assistant never reads them or drafts into them.
Nothing reaches a client unchecked
The assistant drafts. A person on your team sends.
Quoted first. Built to fit.
This isn't a template with your logo on it. Every build starts from how your business actually runs — so there's no off-the-shelf demo, and we won't pretend otherwise.
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01
Discovery call
We map how your week and your business actually run, and pick the first tasks worth handing over.
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A live build on your work
On the strategy call we build one of your real tasks with AI, on screen — your data, not a generic demo.
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Scope and quote
We scope the build with you on a strategy session and quote it in writing — agreed before a single workflow is built.
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Build, connect, hand over
The assistant is wired into your tools, with inputs set up for each person on your team.
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Run and refine
We go live, then tune reminders, reports and sign-offs as your team settles in.
Will it send email for me? Straight answers on drafts
What does an AI email assistant do?
An AI email assistant reads your incoming mail, sorts it by importance, drafts replies and reminds you about threads that never got an answer. It works inside your own Gmail or Outlook account. Drafts wait for your approval, so you keep control of every message that leaves.
Will the drafts sound like me?
They are modeled on your own sent mail, so greetings, length and sign-offs match how you write. You can set phrases to avoid and topics to leave blank. Early drafts need more edits; most owners find the tone settles within the first couple of weeks of corrections.
Why not just use the AI built into Gmail or Outlook?
Built-in tools suggest wording for one message at a time. A built assistant knows who your priority contacts are, reads your calendar and files before drafting, chases unanswered threads on a schedule, and feeds your morning brief and task list. It follows rules you wrote rather than generic defaults.
Can it ever send an email on its own?
Not unless you allow it. The default is draft-only. If you want, one low-risk category such as meeting confirmations can be set to auto-send, and anything involving money, contracts or a new contact stays as a draft for you to send.
Is my email safe with it?
It connects to your account with limited permissions and runs on accounts you own. You choose which labels and senders it may read, you can exclude sensitive threads entirely, and you can revoke access at any time from your account settings.
Can my team use it too?
Yes. Each person gets a separate setup with their own voice, priorities and exclusions, and nobody can see another person's mailbox. A shared inbox, such as sales@ or support@, can also be sorted with drafts assigned to whoever owns the reply.