Your inbox, in conversation.

Your inbox, handled in conversation. Nothing sends without your nod.

• Read and search. "Show me anything from Maya this week." "Has the contract from Stripe come through?" "Find the thread where we discussed pricing."
• Brief before calls. "Brief me on the Acme thread before my 3pm." Presence reads the conversation, finds context from your vault, and produces a two-minute summary.
• Draft and reply in your voice. "Reply to Sam — agree to the meeting, propose Tuesday afternoon, keep it warm." The draft opens right in the conversation, fully editable — recipients, subject and body — and replies thread back into the original conversation.
• Send with one confirmation. Nothing leaves your outbox until you tap send. Every draft, every recipient, every attachment is shown.
• Save attachments and threads. "Save that thread as a reference" lands as tagged, cross-linked markdown — and "pull in the attachment" saves the original PDF, doc or spreadsheet straight into your vault, made searchable too.

Presence will not send mail without your explicit confirmation. The pattern is consistent: it writes a draft, shows you the recipient and the subject and the body, and waits. You can edit the text in place, swap recipients, change the tone, or discard the whole thing. Nothing goes anywhere until you tap Send.

This is not a friction we are apologising for. It is the only safe way an AI assistant should ever touch outbound mail. The handful of seconds it adds is worth the certainty that your name never sends something you would not write.

The thing that ends up changing how you work is briefings. Ask "brief me for the 3pm" and Presence pulls the calendar event, finds the email thread with that contact, reads the last couple of weeks of messages, checks for context in your vault, and writes you a single page: who you are talking to, what the conversation has been about, what they care about, where you left it last time, and what to push for.

Two minutes of reading replaces twenty minutes of scrolling through threads. Multiply that by every meeting you have in a week.

1Presence will never read or search your email unless you explicitly ask. Connecting Gmail only enables access when you request it — a briefing, a thread, a search, or a draft. There is no background inbox monitoring.

Connection is through Google OAuth — you log in to Google directly, we never see your password. The token is stored in encrypted secret storage, scoped to your account, and revocable in one tap.

Every agent can reach for Gmail, but the first time one tries to send, it stops and asks — and you decide who it is allowed to write to. Reading and drafting just happen once you have said yes; a journal-keeper you never point at your mail simply never touches it. You can withdraw any of it from the Access tab.

Where email really starts paying back is when you set up a dedicated inbox-keeper as a scheduled workflow. Every morning it sorts overnight mail by importance, archives the noise, drafts the routine replies you would have written, and flags the ones that actually need you. You open your phone to a clean inbox and a short list of decisions instead of a wall of unread.