A sorting system for pitches, updates, and asks, with the decline notes already written. Take it. It is the whole thing, on this page.
Do it now, plan it for a slot, hand it to someone, or let it go with a note. The same four the app uses. Read the table once and it runs in your head for free.
| What arrives | Decision | The rule | What you send |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warm intro from someone you have backed or worked with | Do | Reply the same day, even if the answer is a short no. The intro is the relationship, not the deal. | A real reply, in your words. Never a form. |
| Cold pitch inside your thesis, stage, and geography | Plan | Into the deck-review slot on your calendar. One slot, twice a week. Nothing gets read outside it. | Note 1, below: the honest "I will look on Thursday." |
| Cold pitch outside your thesis | Let go | Decline within a day. A fast no is a kindness; silence is the founder's most expensive outcome. | Note 2, below: the clean decline. |
| Portfolio update | Plan | Read on Fridays, in one sitting. Reply only where they asked for something specific. | One line back when there is an ask. Nothing when there is not. |
| An ask from an LP or a co-investor | Do | Same day. These are the people whose money and trust make the rest possible. | The answer, or the date you will have it. |
| A founder asking for an intro you cannot make | Let go | Say so once, plainly. Do not leave it open. | Note 3, below: the no-intro note. |
| Vendor pitches, event invites, newsletters | Let go | No reply. Unsubscribe where there is a link. Filter where there is not. | Nothing. |
Thanks for sending this. I read decks in one sitting, twice a week, so you will hear from me by Thursday either way. If that is too slow for your round, tell me and I will step aside.
Thanks for thinking of me. This is outside what I invest in, so I am going to pass rather than waste your time. That is about my focus, not your company. Good luck with the round.
I do not know them well enough to make that intro land, and a weak intro is worse than none. If that changes I will reach out. Sorry I cannot help with this one.
Copy the notes. Change the words to yours. There is no download and no gate. The whole thing is on this page.
Deliberate runs on your Mac. On a phone? Send yourself this link and open it at your desk.
The EA sorts every thread into the same four decisions and drafts the note. To read and draft, Deliberate sends the emails it is working on to Claude, under your own Claude account. It never sends your mail to us. Deliberate trains nothing. What Anthropic may use is set by your own Claude settings. The bigger yes is joining the alpha. This is the smaller one.
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 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.
Invite-gated alpha · Google + Microsoft email and calendars · runs on your Mac · needs your own Claude plan
Pitches you have never seen a name from are sorted before you read them, with the reason on the row.
The no is written in your voice and waits for your approval. It never sends on its own judgment.
Watches resurface a sent thread when silence has gone on too long. The pipeline is the follow-up.
On your Mac, the app keeps who wrote, when, the subject and the first lines of each email, plus short summaries and drafts it wrote. The full text of your mail is never saved. It never hoards your data.
Your approval is the send, and nobody on the other end is dealing with a machine. Automation is earned, never assumed.
Every refusal speaks. A failed send lands in your Drafts, never lost.
Four decisions, receipts attached. Empty is success.
A short record on your Mac, never the full text. Your mailbox stays the record.
Approved, sent, and off your plate. You end the day seeing what moved.