Show HN: Made a highly organised email client with prompt-free AI within
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do I understand it correctly: you (1) have 30 pre-defined classes of emails, (2) you predict a class, (3) put email in a specific UI? I think dynamic clusters would be more helpful! every inbox is different. what if you would cluster my inbox and predict a cluster for a new email? you can do that based on the content and interactions.
The groups/topics are indeed dynamic! A slightly different set for each user. I wrote ~30 because those many are the categories + subcategories a user's emails roughly spread across. And it's still simple and intuitive to browse over:)
There is still *no higher order classification, no deeper grouping*. Every email — a project update, a transaction, a human message; appears the same. Key attachments are always elusive when needed. *Trivial auto-updates crowd us*, and *long forwarded threads are still painful to follow with the untidy nature of their chaining.*
I'm sure I am not the only one who found this irritating!
So I built Faraday to finally solve email for good. It uses a classification and extraction pipeline on every incoming email before it has even arrived for the user. *No prompts, no triggers.* It does 3 things automatically:
*1. Higher-order classification:* Is this a Linkedin update, a transaction, a human conversation, an OTP, a booking confirmation? Not just "primary vs promotions" — actual semantic classification over ~30 categories, sub-groups, statuses and even genres. And then the sub-categories are ordered basis what's best for them. Who cares about the chronology within 40 newsletters from last week. The genres and the brands across them are more important.
*2. Contextual extraction:* Relevant content in most emails is roughly just 12% of the total text. It extracts that (amounts, dates, names, actions, codes - different for different email types) and surface it at the top, so you get the meat upfront.
*3. Thread reconstruction: *Email threads are just terribly nested blockquotes. Faraday reconstructs and reassembles them into a clean, ordered conversation tree. This one is really quite slick.
A bunch of things were difficult to do here. Making all three layers work simultaneously across the spread of our email content, at inbox speeds, with optimum resource utilization, without a single training signal from the user. No setup or onboarding. To work as soon as you login. Super tricky to build.
Meanwhile, also ensured that *it is privacy-first*, doubling down on the best possible security and encryption standards (AES 256) right from the onset.
There are genuinely some nifty technical innovations in Faraday (enough to have even filed 2 patents for them:)
It works on top of all Gmail and Outlook accounts. It's live, compliance-approved, out-of-beta and a lot of people (who were earlier hooked on superhuman, spark) are now using this :)
Happy to go deep on any part of the architecture that you find interesting. Do try it: https://faraday.email (2-week free trial, and much inexpensive after)