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Email summaries for founders and entrepreneurs

When everything runs through your inbox, sorting it yourself every morning is the worst use of your founder time.

The problem, then what changes

What actually eats your time

As a founder, your inbox is a crossroads: an investor, a key customer, a candidate, a vendor and your cofounder all write to the same place, and each one thinks they're the priority. The problem isn't volume, it's that sorting this flow costs you your attention at the moment it's worth the most: the morning, before you've built anything.

Today

  • An investor or key-customer email buried under fifty tool notifications
  • The constant fear of missing THE important message by not reading everything
  • Twenty minutes of morning triage before you've moved the product forward
  • Threads (hiring, contracts, support) piling up with no hierarchy

With InboxBriefs

  • Urgent rises, noise is grouped
  • Your priorities, in plain language
  • Read-only: nothing moves in your inbox

In plain words

What InboxBriefs does, in three sentences.

1

You connect your mailbox.

Gmail, Outlook or your company's own server. Read-only: InboxBriefs can read your email, never send, delete or change anything.

2

It reads your email for you.

Every morning you get a sorted brief: what is urgent, what is important, and what is just for information.

3

Anything that needs doing becomes a task.

With a date, an owner and a reminder. When the reply arrives, the task ticks itself off.

Your email, your tasks, your calendar, your projects, your documents and your team: one place instead of six.

How InboxBriefs helps

Urgent rises, noise is grouped

Every morning you get a single email: urgent at the top (an investor waiting, an unhappy customer), important in the middle, and automated notifications grouped at the bottom. You decide as you read instead of digging to find.

Your priorities, in plain language

You write rules like “Prioritize any email from my investors and paying customers.” InboxBriefs reads them before sorting, so the summary reflects what matters to YOUR company, not a generic heuristic.

Read-only: nothing moves in your inbox

Inbox access is strictly read-only: InboxBriefs can't send, delete or modify anything. You keep full control of your inbox; the tool only summarizes it.

Rules to copy (and adapt)

  • Mark as urgent any email from one of my investors or mentioning a fundraise.
  • Prioritize emails from paying customers, especially if they ask a question or report a problem.
  • Ignore automated tool notifications (analytics, CI/CD, social) unless there's an incident.

Frequently asked questions

Can I separate my different projects or companies?+

Yes. You connect your inbox and write rules per project or client. The Pro plan lets you connect multiple inboxes if you split your activities across separate addresses.

Will I miss an email if InboxBriefs files it as “FYI”?+

No: no email is deleted or hidden. Everything stays in your inbox. The summary ranks, but each entry links to the original message in one click, and even the spam folder is scanned in case a real message landed there.

Is it safe to connect my founder inbox?+

Access is read-only and enforced by Google, not by a promise. Tokens and all generated content are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM), and emails are forgotten after the summary, only the summary is kept.

Getting your morning back means getting back the window where you make your best decisions. You can try it with no credit card: the 14-day free trial includes 14 summaries, enough to feel the difference over a real work week.

Try it on your own inbox.

Connect your mailbox, pick your time, and get a sorted brief and your first tasks tomorrow morning. No credit card.

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