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Inbox zero for founders, without the religion
Every founder knows the inbox zero fantasy — and the reality: client mail mixed with CI failures, invoices, login alerts, newsletters, and that one email you cannot afford to miss. Manual inbox zero is a second job.
InboxPilot automates the safe 90% of that discipline. One digest tells you what matters. An action queue groups the rest by project. Cleanup happens only where you have explicitly approved it. The result: an unread count that finally means something.
How InboxPilot is different
- Start every day with a digest: urgent, actionable, and noise — already separated
- Client, payment, security, and legal mail is hard-blocked from cleanup and always visible
- Unread becomes trustworthy again: only things that actually need you stay unread
- No new todo app: the action queue lives in your dashboard and digests arrive where you already look
| Aspect | The old way | InboxPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Classic inbox zero | Manual triage discipline, daily | Automated digest + approved rules |
| Fear of missing mail | Check everything, constantly | Important categories cannot be hidden |
| Time cost | 30–60 min/day | One digest review |
| Multiple inboxes | Multiply the discipline | One system across all mailboxes |
Questions
Is this another app I have to check?
No — the digest comes to you (email, Telegram on higher tiers). The dashboard is there when you want control, not as a daily obligation.
What makes this safe for a business inbox?
Read-only first scans, explicit rule approval, simulation before execution, re-classification on every live action, and a full audit log.
How fast is setup?
Minutes: create an account, connect an IMAP mailbox with an app password, run a read-only scan, and review your first digest preview.
Try it on your own inbox
Create an account, connect a mailbox, and run a read-only scan. Nothing is touched until you approve it.
Start free — read-only firstFree plan: 1 mailbox, daily digest. No card required. See pricing