Inbox sorting by sender

Quiet the noisy brood.

Your Gmail, sorted by something that pays attention.

Brood watches who writes to you and proposes where their mail should live. It files nothing until you say so.

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For Gmail and Google Workspace. Not open to everyone yet.

When mail arrives
When mail arrives: a week of hours as a grid of squares, days down the side and hours across, each stronger where more mail arrived

When mail arrives

Each square is an hour of a day of the week, in your own time zone, and the stronger the square, the more mail arrived in that hour over the last month; the page can look back a week, or further. There is no number on it, only a shape: when the mail comes, and when it leaves you alone.

In the app as it is today. The mail in the picture is invented.

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In the app as it is today. The mail in the pictures is invented.

Who it's for

An inbox that is part of the job.

Mail that arrives because of what you do: customers, candidates, counterparties, the tools your team runs on. Somewhere in it is a message that can cost you a deal, a candidate or a filing date if you miss it.

A pile of newsletters is a different problem, and an afternoon of unsubscribing settles it.

How it works

A quiet hand in the barnyard.

  1. 1

    It watches who writes

    Who writes to you, how often, and who you write to.

  2. 2

    It proposes homes you confirm

    A sender who writes often gets a home, a label in Gmail. Nothing is filed until you say so.

  3. 3

    It brings back what matters

    A reply in a conversation you wrote in, a customer back after a silence, a password reset.

A note on what we see

We watch the barnyard.
Not what's in the letters.

What we see

  • The sender's name, email and domain
  • The date and time received
  • How many people it was sent to
  • Who you write to, from the To and Cc of mail you send, never its Bcc

What we don't

  • The subject line of any message
  • The body of any message
  • Attachments of any kind
  • Anything you've drafted but not sent
  • Anything in Drive, Calendar, Meet, or Contacts
  • Anything we'd use to train a model
Everything Brood reads, and the permission it holds →

Where it's going

The inbox is the first voice.

Mail first. Then the tools you already work in, and after that the calendar, where every invitation wants an answer.

Where it's going →

Writing

Built in the open.

Why there's a list.

Google reviews an app like Brood before it can open to everyone, and the review takes months. The list is how you hear when Brood can take you.

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