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Bumblebee

Inbox and calendar

An AI email assistant that drafts, sorts and waits for your OK

Bumblebee reads your Gmail and Google Calendar, tells you which emails need you and why, and writes replies in your style straight into your Gmail Drafts. When you want them sent, every email is on one card for you to check, and you have ten seconds to undo.

Bumblebee is in a closed alpha. Sign in with your email; if you are not invited yet, you join the waitlist and we write when a place opens.

An example. Your assistant gets the name you give it.

How it works

  1. 01

    Connect Google

    One button under Connections. Within a few minutes it has read the last 30 days of mail and your calendar, and sorted what needs you from what can wait.

  2. 02

    Ask in plain words

    "What needs me?", "Draft replies", "Find the contract Priya sent in August", "Move my 3pm with Globex to tomorrow and let them know."

  3. 03

    Approve once

    Anything that reaches other people comes as one card showing exactly what will happen. Approve it, untick parts of it, or say no.

How does it decide what needs me?

It sorts every email into what needs a reply from you and what can wait, then ranks what needs you by who sent it. Someone you work with closely, an email written to you directly, or a person you are meeting within a day all move a message up. Receipts, newsletters, invitations and automated mail are recognised first, so they do not crowd the list.

Ask "what needs me?" and you get the list with a reason for each one. Threads you have already answered drop off. Your morning brief also carries the emails waiting on you next to the day's meetings.

Will the replies sound like me?

They are written in your style, learned from 20 of your recent sent emails. It reads them, writes a short description of how you write, and keeps only that description, which you can see and edit under Connections. The emails themselves are not kept.

Every draft is a real Gmail draft, so you can open it in Gmail and change it there. Each one is marked as routine or as needing your judgement. If you edit a draft in Gmail after Bumblebee showed it to you, it will not send the old version: it notices the change and leaves it to you.

What happens when I approve a send?

Bumblebee sends exactly the emails you ticked, once each, after a ten-second window in which you can undo. The card shows each email in full: who it goes to, who is copied, the subject and the text.

Some emails get an extra warning on the card, such as a first email to someone you have never written to, more than ten recipients, or something sensitive going outside your company. You can also make your own rules, for example "always ask before emailing anyone outside the company". It reads each rule back to you in plain words before saving it.

Can it unsubscribe me from newsletters?

Yes. Say "clean up my newsletters" and it lists every sender on one card, showing for each one how it will leave: a one-click unsubscribe, an unsubscribe email, or just a filter. Once you approve, it reports back, for example "Unsubscribed from 7, filtered 1."

Every sender on the card also gets a filter that labels its mail "Newsletters" and keeps it out of your inbox. When a sender only lets you leave through its own website, Bumblebee can do that on its own browser after you approve it.

Does it handle my calendar too?

"Move my 3pm with Globex to tomorrow and let them know" becomes one card showing the old time, the new time and who Google will notify. By default nothing moves until you approve, and it checks that the guest list has not changed in the meantime.

To find a time, it checks your calendar and the busy times of the people invited, where their calendars allow it, and tells you whose it could not see. It also warns you about clashes, including back-to-back meetings in different places with less than 30 minutes between them.

What it won't do, or doesn't do yet

  • It doesn't send, archive, unsubscribe or change your calendar without your approval on a card, unless you add a rule in Settings that lets it. Even then it asks when an email shaped the action.
  • Gmail and Google Calendar only for now. Outlook and Microsoft 365 are not supported yet.
  • It only sees Google Drive files it saved for you. Picking your existing Drive files is not built yet.
  • While Google reviews the app during the closed alpha, only invited people can connect, and Google may ask you to connect again after a week.

Questions people ask

Does it work with Gmail and Google Workspace?

Yes. It works with Gmail and Google Calendar, on personal Google accounts and on Google Workspace accounts where your organisation allows outside apps. It also uses your Google contacts to know who people are.

Does it work with Outlook?

Not yet. Outlook mail, Outlook calendar and OneDrive are planned for later. For now Bumblebee connects to Google only.

Can it send emails without me?

Only if you allow it for one narrow kind of email, such as replies to one person, and even then each send waits out a ten-second undo window. It offers that option after you have approved the same kind of send three times. Rules you set, like "always ask before emailing anyone outside the company", always win.

How much of my inbox does it read?

When you connect, it reads the last 30 days (up to 500 emails), looking at the sender, subject, preview and labels. It opens a full email when a job needs it, such as drafting a reply or finding an attachment. You can switch reading mail off under Connections at any time.

What if an email tries to trick it?

Emails are treated as information to read, never as instructions to follow. Even if a message tells it to forward something, nothing leaves your account without a card you approve. We test this against a set of deliberately malicious emails.

What happens if I disconnect Google?

Everything stops straight away. Access is revoked at Google, the stored keys to your account are destroyed, and the inbox index and drafts it saved are deleted. You can also ask it to forget what it learned from that account.

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