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Shortwave
An email client with AI search, summaries, writing, organization, tasks, and team collaboration.
What it is
Shortwave is an email client built around AI-assisted search, summaries, replies, filters, inbox organization, todos, scheduling, and shared email work. It can search years of email, analyze attachments, use connected services, and support team ownership of threads.
Ways to use it
Ideas from real executive operations work. Take the ones that fit.
- Search an executive's email history using a plain-language description of the issue.
- Turn selected messages into a visible todo queue without losing the original thread.
- Create a narrow AI filter for one repeatable category and audit its decisions.
- Share a live thread internally so the owner sees the same history and attachments.
- Prepare a reply using earlier context, then verify the promised dates and facts.
Our take
Shortwave is worth considering when email itself is the operating queue and Gmail's basic structure is not enough. It can reduce searching and sorting, but the office still needs rules for what becomes a task, what must be escalated, and who owns a shared thread.