Alinea reads your mailbox while you sleep and writes one page for the morning: the four things that need you, the tasks buried in the threads, the meetings that will eat the day — and a draft waiting wherever a reply is owed.
Nothing on it was typed by hand. Read it, decide, and the morning is closed.
AlineaTodayInboxProjectsChatSYNCED 7:02
FRIDAY, 15 AUGUST · 7:04
Good morning, Jerry.
Five threads want you today. The one that moves money is Vandelay Industries — the customs pack is late and the pickup is Monday.
FIRST, THESE FOUR
Send Vandelay the customs pack — cutoff MondayOVERDUE
Approve the Kruger Industrial quotationDRAFT READY
Decide the Kramerica reset date — 22 or 25 AugustBLOCKS 11:00
Confirm the Peterman site visit windowTHIS WEEK
TODAY'S CALENDAR
09:30
Weekly pipeline
30m · 4 people
11:00
Kramerica line reset review
Deck half built
15:00
Kruger quotation walkthrough
45m · George
ALINEA DID OVERNIGHT
Filed 43 messages · drafted 2 replies · rebuilt the Kramerica one-pager · flagged Vandelay as overdue.
THREE MOVEMENTS
It reads, it orders, you decide.
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It reads while you sleep
Every thread, the calendar, and the files attached to both. Routine mail is filed; the rest is ranked by what being late costs you.
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One page, in order
Four things that need you, the tasks lifted out of your own sentences, and the day the calendar actually leaves you.
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You approve, it sends
Drafts are written in your voice and held. Read, edit if you like, approve — and the morning is closed before coffee.
PLATE TWO — THE REPLY QUEUE
Every reply already written, none of them sent.
Alinea drafts from the thread and the project files — the right attachment, the right numbers, your phrasing. You read it and decide.
NEEDS A REPLY
George Costanza06:12
RE: Budgetary quotation — insertion machines
DRAFT READY
Art VandelayOVERDUE
Customs documents for the 21 August pickup?
Cosmo KramerYest.
Kramerica line #2 — reset date confirmation
J. PetermanWed.
Site visit window — three options
RE: Budgetary quotationALINEA DRAFT
To George Costanza · Kruger Industrial Smoothing · 2 attachments
Dear George,
Thank you for the follow-up. Attached is the budgetary quotation for the fully automatic radial and axial insertion machines, together with the recommended configuration for your board mix.
Indicative lead time is 14–16 weeks from order. I have kept the pricing valid to 30 September so you have room for the internal review.
Happy to walk the numbers through on Friday at 15:00 if that still suits.
APPROVE & SENDEDITWHY THIS DRAFT
AND ANYTHING ELSE — THE ASK BAR
Ask in a sentence. Check the working.
One bar at the foot of every page — what's at risk, the cover note with the invoice attached, six slides before eleven. When Alinea is unsure it asks you one question instead of guessing.
Build the six-slide reset review for the 11:00.
ALINEAStarting from the March review deck and yesterday's thread. Two conflicting reset dates in there — 22 vs 25 August. Which should I use?
22 AUGUST25 AUGUST
Ask Alinea to do something…RETURN
CONNECTS TO
Gmail · Outlook · Google Calendar · Microsoft 365. Two clicks, read-only to begin with, revoked in one.
WHAT IT WON'T DO
Send without your approval. Train on your mail. Keep anything you ask it to forget.
Fourteen days on any plan. Your first morning page arrives the day after you connect — Alinea needs one night to read.
What happens if I leave?
Revoke access and the copy goes with it. Your mail never moved — it stays where it always was.
Can it send on its own?
Only if you write a rule that says so, per recipient — and you can take it back in one click.
ABOUT
The first hour should not be archaeology.
The mailbox became the place work is stored, tracked and remembered — so every morning starts by reconstructing what happened overnight, across mail, tasks and a calendar that disagrees with all of it.
We think reading is machine work and deciding is yours. Alinea does the reading while you sleep and hands back one page you can act on in ten minutes — with a bar at the bottom for everything else.
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Nothing leaves without you
An assistant that can send in your name is a liability. Alinea drafts and waits — every time.
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Show the working
Every line on the morning page points back at the thread it came from. If you can't check it, you can't trust it.
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Quiet by default
One page in the morning, one bar to ask. No badges, no streaks, nothing invented to pull you back.
WHERE WE ARE
Alinea is early and deliberately small. If your first hour goes to digging out of mail, we would rather hear about your morning than tell you about ours.