For founders · a free tool from Deliberate

Your inbox is where your week goes.

Tick the tools you use. See what the reading alone costs you, from published averages. No email address needed to see the answer.

Your tools

Everyone has email. Tick the rest.

Published data exists for Teams, not Slack. The two do the same job for the same people, so we use the Teams figure to estimate Slack.

These are published averages. Not you? Change them.
Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025
Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025
Estimated from the Teams figure. See the footnote.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.

What it costs you
2.0 hours a day just reading what reaches you, before a single reply.
9.8 hours a week.

The receipt: 117 emails a day, at up to 60 seconds each for email and 30 seconds each for chat. Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index and its own Viva Insights accounting. Change nothing and this is the average worker; your day may run higher or lower.

Deliberate runs on your Mac. On a phone? Send yourself this link and open it at your desk.

Now you have a number.

Most founders we talk to had never put one on it. The bigger yes is joining the alpha. This is the smaller one.

Can we write to you now and then?

We write an occasional letter: what we shipped, what we got wrong, what we ruled out. No sequence, no schedule, unsubscribe is one click and we don't ask why.

Only ever used to send you the letter. Privacy

The product IN ALPHA NOW

The EA

The executive assistant you hire in five minutes.

Connect your Google and Microsoft accounts. Five minutes later your email is read, your day is mapped, your replies are drafted. Every thread lands in one of four decisions: Do, Plan, Handoff, or Let go, each with a receipt. You approve. You send.

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Invite-gated alpha · Google + Microsoft email and calendars · runs on your Mac

One-line reads, not another inbox

Every row carries the assistant's one or two sentence read of the thread. Meeting asks are answered against your real calendar.

Drafts that sound like you

Calibrated from your own sent mail. It never sends on its own judgment.

To-dos that find themselves

The real asks in your mail become tasks you can see, with the thread attached.

Follow-ups that follow up

Watches resurface a sent thread when silence has gone on too long.

The five promises

The contract every Deliberate product keeps.

It never sends on its own judgment.

Your approval is the send, and nobody on the other end is dealing with a machine. Automation is earned, never assumed.

It never hides a failure.

Every refusal speaks. A failed send lands in your Drafts, never lost.

It never wastes your effort.

Four decisions, receipts attached. Empty is success.

It never hoards your data.

Metadata only, on your machine. Your mailbox stays the system of record.

The work actually moves.

Approved, sent, and off your plate. You end the day seeing what moved.