Native

Native is an email agent, Native Mail, for people who want their inbox triaged and answered without manual sorting. It is aimed at anyone drowning in email who still wants the final decision on anything the agent prepares.

A user sets a delegation level, from Low to Max, choosing how much of the inbox the agent handles versus leaves for the person. The agent sorts newsletters and receipts, prepares replies for review, drafts follow-ups on threads that have gone quiet, and brings decisions that need a human judgment call into one queue with context.

Native Mail screens incoming mail to keep spam and low-value offers out, handles unsubscribing from unwanted lists with approval, checks the calendar to find and propose meeting times, and keeps relationship memory across past conversations so replies carry the right context. Sending always waits for approval by default, though it can be allowed automatically for specific people or lists.

The beta is open for Mac, downloadable directly, and connects to Gmail and other IMAP/SMTP providers including iCloud with an app-specific password; Windows, iOS, and Android support is planned. Launch pricing has not been announced, and users bring their own model provider access, subject to that provider's own pricing and usage limits.

Use cases

• Catching up on a day's email in a brief summary
• Deciding on a budget change proposed in an email thread