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by nicbou 996 days ago
The pitch could use a bit of work. I had to muster a lot of willpower to read all those paragraphs to figure out what the product even does. It would greatly benefit from more straightforward writing.

When I clicked, I hoped that it could manage the tedium of dealing with emails:

- Negotiating meeting dates and adding events to my calendar.

- Combining pointless corporate emails into an executive summary, or deleting them as they come.

- Surfacing metadata when appropriate: the phone number of the person I should call, directions to a mentioned place, profiles of mentioned people.

A good executive assistant gets stuff out of the way. They reduce friction and let you focus on work that matters. "You have to be in Frankfurt? Here are your tickets. You are checked in. A taxi will pick you up in the afternoon. Your hotel is booked. I sent the address to your phone". There is so much low-level tedium

To me, this tool feels like ChatGPT with access to my emails. You still have to converse with it, ask it specifically for what you want. Instead of magically sorting the things I don't want to deal with, it handles the thing I should be dealing with: working with other humans.

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There's definitely more we want to do here - including prompting you proactively in helpful ways. This is our v1 -- stay tuned for v2 :)