An AI that makes sure you never miss an important email

Gravel reads the email you connect, texts you first about what needs you, and saves the rest for a short morning brief. No assistant catches everything, so Gravel leans toward telling you when something looks urgent.

The mail worth a text is the urgent kind, the kind with a deadline and the kind where a person is waiting on you. Everything else that can wait arrives together in the morning, like the example brief above: a statement is ready, a package ships today, Maya replied about Friday.

It reads the message, drafts a reply and asks before sending. Here is the exchange from the home-page demo, an example conversation:

Gravel: Your landlord needs the lease renewal back by Friday. I drafted a reply:

Gravel: “Hi Dana, signed copy attached. Happy to renew for another twelve months. Thanks!”

Gravel: Send it from your Gmail?

You: send

Gravel: Sent. I’ll nudge you if Dana hasn’t replied by Wednesday.

You get the deadline, the draft and the question in one place. The reply goes out from your own mailbox, not from a Gravel address.

It keeps watching the thread after you send. In the demo it says: “I’ll nudge you if Dana hasn’t replied by Wednesday.” If Dana has not replied by then, you get a text.

It works the other way too. When someone who matters to you writes, or a message plainly asks you for something, and you have not answered after about two business days, Gravel nudges you. Lower-priority mail waits in the morning brief.

Before any nudge goes out, Gravel reads the thread again. If you have already replied, or the other person has, the nudge is dropped.

Yes. When you connect, Gravel looks at your sent mail to learn how you write: how you greet people, how you sign off, how long you go, how formal you are and whether you use emoji. That becomes a style note you can see in your memory and delete. Delete it and Gravel stops adapting to your voice.

Every draft is shown to you in full before it is sent, so you approve the exact text.

By default, Gravel does not send an email until you say send. Drafts come to you first, and you see the exact words. For each kind of action you pick one of four levels: just do it, only when I ask, ask me first, or hand it to me. It starts read-only.

Emails are content, not commands. A message that tries to give Gravel instructions does not get acted on and never counts as urgent. Text “pause” and all background work stops.

Your mailbox. Gravel reads Gmail and Outlook (you sign in with Google or Microsoft), plus iCloud Mail, GMX, WEB.DE, T-Online, freenet, mailbox.org, Posteo and other IMAP mailboxes with an app password. See integrations.

It starts read-only. The first time an action needs more access, like sending a reply from your mailbox, Gravel asks for it and comes back to you with the confirmation. Your data is encrypted with a key that belongs to your account only, and Gravel does not train AI models on it. For the longer guide, read how to stop missing important emails.

These example conversations were recorded in Apple's Messages app. During early access Gravel works in WhatsApp and Telegram, and iMessage is coming. Gravel costs €12 a month.