HandledInbox
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Every message costs a decision. Most of them are the same decision, made again.

You already know who gets answered in an hour and who waits a week. You already know which newsletters you never read. But no tool has ever said, quietly, "great, I'll handle it." So the person you answer fastest still waits for you to type, and the mail you never wanted still gets looked at.

What it does

HandledInbox reads how you already handle email, then takes over the repeatable part, under rules you set and can see. It sorts everyone who mails you into a small set of groups. For each group you grant exactly one permission:

Leave itNothing is touched. The mail sits where it landed.
Batch itFolded into one daily digest instead of forty interruptions.
Draft itA reply in your voice, waiting in your own Drafts folder.
Send itEarned, not granted. After you approve twenty of a group's drafts untouched, it can send without asking.

Drafts land in your own mail client. Approval is pressing Send. There is no new app to live in, and nothing escalates on its own.

Before it shows you a draft, it practices in private

It writes replies to messages you already answered, then compares its version against what you actually wrote. Blind judges saw both and picked the human one.

80%
of the time, judges picked the machine's draft as the human one.
pre-registered bar 70% · p < 0.0001
You don't greet the people you're closest to.

65% of real replies have no greeting line at all. Every other AI staples "Hey Kim," onto everything, and that is exactly how you spot the fake. This one measures who you greet, and how, per person, and matches it.

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Who's doing the work

The handler has a name. Ours is Marlowe. Yours is up to you.

When you connect, the first thing you do is name your handler. Marlowe signs only what it says as itself: the daily digest, the occasional question. It never signs the drafts; those are your voice. It never pretends to be human. Staff, not mascot.

from the daily digest

Three drafts are waiting. Twelve senders went to the batch. One question when you have a minute: should invoices from Delgado & Sons go to Alex directly?

Marlowe
Control

Every group starts at the safest setting. You move the levers.

The groups come from two things it measures separately: how fast you already reply to someone, which sets the action, and how you already greet them, which sets the voice. Never blended into one importance score, because a CEO is often formal and fast, and that is the exact person a one-dimensional list destroys.

how it sees your mailbox, illustrative
HOW YOU GREET THEM  → ←  HOW FAST YOU REPLY Inner fast, casual Careful fast, formal Background slow, casual Outer slow, formal your CEO lives here →
the permission matrix, illustrative
GroupLeave itBatch itDraft itSend it
Answered fast, informalclose colleagues, family ● setunlocks at 20 approved · 14 so far
Answered fast, formalthe board, key clients ● setunlocks at 20 approved · 3 so far
Answered slowlyvendors, recruiters ● set
Never answerednewsletters, cold mail ● set
Autosend is on offer, and it is earned: a group unlocks it only after you approve twenty of its drafts without touching them. Nothing escalates on its own, and every decision the system makes is recorded where you can review it.

The first cohort is onboarding now.

Works with Gmail today; a mailbox connects in under two seconds. Microsoft 365 is on the roadmap, not available yet. Six mailboxes run live today on the founder's own mail.

$79/month
Two inboxes included. $15 a month for each additional, up to eight. Everything in the price: the drafts, the digest, your handler, and autosend once it's earned. No tiers, no seats, no annual trap.