The Deliberate alpha · macOS

Making people heroes at work.

Everything coming at you, from every app you use, flows into Deliberate. It filters the signal from the noise and hands you one focused view where you lead, direct, decide, align, and refine. Deliberate wrestles the work. You take the credit.

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Invite-gated alpha · Google + Microsoft email, Google Calendar · runs on your Mac

How it works

Watch the chaos become a productive morning.

THE NOISE · EVERYTHING, ALL AT ONCE
Deliberate
FILTERS · SORTS · GATHERS · DRAFTS
THE SIGNAL · ONE FOCUSED VIEW
Good morning, Jamie. Connected · Updated 8:22 AM
DO {{ doCount }} PLAN {{ planCount }} HANDOFF {{ handoffCount }} LET GO {{ letgoCount }}
{{ row.name }}{{ row.subject }} ✓ {{ row.pill }}{{ row.date }}
{{ row.summary }} {{ row.receipt }}

Email from every account. Slack and Teams. Texts. Tasks from Asana, Jira, Monday, and ClickUp. Calendar invites, docs, meeting notes. In the alpha today: Google + Microsoft email and Google Calendar. The rest is the roadmap.

01 · The problem

Your workday is chaos.

It’s not you. Work really has become this loud. Everything behind this card is calling for your attention, all day long.

Too many places

Your work lives in dozens of apps. Email here, chat there, tasks somewhere else. Just figuring out what needs you today is a job in itself.

AI made it louder

AI helps you do more, but it added more chats, more tools, and more output to keep track of. You do more than ever and still feel behind.

Deliberate takes all of it and hands you a short, clear list of what actually needs you.
Predictable and repeatable at its core. AI only where it truly helps. The rest of this page shows how.

02 · The answer, in alpha today

The executive assistant you hire in five minutes.

Deliberate is a macOS app that sits over the Google and Microsoft accounts you already have. Connect your inboxes; five minutes later your email is read, your day is mapped, your replies are drafted. You approve. You send. You get the credit.

One place, instead of fifty

Every account rolls into one inbox, one calendar, one to-do board, one address book. The scattered-everywhere problem ends the morning you connect.

Intelligence that answers to you

Deterministic process does the sorting and watching; AI is applied strategically, only where judgment and language earn it. Either way it reports back with receipts, so the AI noise is handled by the assistant, not by you.

03 · Under the hood

Accounts, aggregates, intelligence.

Three layers, in order. Your accounts stay the source of truth. The aggregates pull everything into one place; the intelligence works it down for you. Everything on this page lives in one of these layers.

1 · Accounts
The raw sources

Your Gmail, Google Workspace, and Microsoft accounts, as many as you have. Each stays the system of record; Deliberate reads, it doesn't move in.

2 · Aggregates
One of everything

Every account combined into one inbox, one calendar, one to-do board, one address book. This layer ends the scattered-everywhere problem.

3 · Intelligence
The intelligent layer

The executive assistant works the aggregates: sorting the morning, drafting replies, spotting to-dos, keeping contacts current. Most of it is deterministic: predictable, repeatable, explainable. AI is reserved for the moments that need it, like reading a thread and drafting your reply. The four scenes below are it at work.

The intelligence at work · Email

Dropped balls come back.

It starts with recovery. The rescue sweep reads the backlog and resurfaces threads that slipped: summarized, drafted, and labeled as rescues. Digging out of a buried inbox is the first thing it does for you, not a promise for later.

A short, truthful morning. Every day.

Every thread lands in one of four decisions: Do · Plan · Handoff · Let go. Each placement carries a receipt, every verdict names its signals, and your correction outranks the machine's opinion. Permanently.

This thread asks for a decision. Pick a direction; each comes with a complete draft.
Go ahead Decline Ask for time
✓ DRAFTED REPLY Drafted reply
TO Priya Sharma <priya@vendorco.example> SUBJECT RE: Q3 vendor contract

{{ draftText }}

Edit draft Approve & send
Calibrated from your own sent mail, so it sounds like you. Sends in 10s · Undo
Aggregates · Calendar Work week · Aug 24 – 28
WED 26
Lunch, EAT FOOD 12 PM · 50m
Weekly product sync 11:30 AM · 6h · work
THU 27 · TODAY
Northwind intro call 2 PM · 30m · work
Conflict: 2 boards, 4 PM Reschedule drafted
FRI 28
Lunch, EAT FOOD 12 PM · 50m
Eat Dinner 5 PM · 50m · personal
Every account, one week. They asked for Thursday; you're free at 2:00.
The intelligence at work · Calendar

The product of all your calendars.

Every Google account you connect rolls into one aggregate week. Deliberate surfaces conflicts, flags the meetings that matter, and answers scheduling asks against your real availability, the way an assistant would.

Event creation has real depth: recurrence, guests, Google Meet. Start reminders name the meeting on your lock screen.

The intelligence at work · To-dos

It notices the things that need doing.

Deliberate reads for action items as it works: an unpaid balance, an invite waiting on you, a promise you made in a thread or meeting. It suggests each one as a to-do with its source attached. You add it or dismiss it; nothing lands on your board without your say.

The board stays honest too. Every card names the email or event it came from, and Done means done, crossed out where you can see it.

Aggregates · To-Dos 7 open
SUGGESTED 2
Add funds to the SMS provider EMAIL AddDismiss
TO DO 7
Send Sam the beta feedback EMAIL StartDone
Renew domain before it expires EMAIL
DONE 8
Check out from the hotel EMAIL Reopen
Prep for advisory board call CALENDAR
Aggregates · Contacts All accounts
P Priya Sharma priya@vendorco.example · VendorCo Priority seen 41× · Aug 25
A Jordan Wells jordan.wells@example.com New seen 4× · Jun 8
A Brightline Offers offers@mail.brightline.example Marketing seen 24× · Aug 24
A Builders Newsletter noreply@builders.example Automated Kept list seen 122× · Aug 26
The intelligence at work · Contacts

You never file a contact again.

Every email you get, every reply you send, every message you put off until tomorrow teaches Deliberate something. Those learnings land on the contact itself: who's a priority, who's a newsletter, who's automated noise, who you actually answer.

Every one of them stays current on its own, across every account. You only touch a contact when you want to, and your correction always wins.

The habits behind the scenes

What makes it feel like an assistant, not a feed.

One-line reads, not another inbox

Every row carries the assistant's 1–2 sentence read of the thread. Meeting asks are answered against your real calendar: "They asked for Thursday; you're free at 2:00."

You send. Always you.

Approve & send runs a visible ~10-second hold with a real Undo. A failed send lands safely in your Drafts. There is no auto-send code path to toggle. It does not exist.

It learns you, on your machine

Sender tiers, delegation habits, and your corrections accumulate locally, from your own gestures. With your consent, a pass over your sent history seeds who actually matters to you.

The whole desk, not another tab

Multiple Google and Microsoft accounts in one morning, each reply from the right identity. An inbox that opens instantly from a local index, with an honest freshness line instead of a spinner.

Follow-ups that follow up

Watches resurface a sent thread when silence has gone on too long. Start reminders name the meeting on your lock screen. Attachments both directions; instant search.

Honest by law

Empty is success: "Nothing needs you this morning." Every refusal speaks, no dead buttons, undo on every destructive verb. It's paid to end your morning early, not to hold your attention.

04 · Why you can let it near your inbox

The suites read your mail in their cloud and send in your name. Deliberate works on your machine, shows its reasoning, and never sends without you.

We don't compete with your tools; we make them report to you. Every claim below is a pinned engineering law, not a policy.

Your mail stays yours

Your mailbox remains the system of record. Deliberate keeps metadata only; message bodies are never written to its disk store.

No server of ours touches your data

There is no Deliberate cloud reading your mail. No telemetry either. The update check is a static file fetch.

The AI is your own

Analysis runs through your own Claude subscription, on your own machine. Deliberate never proxies your content or resells AI access.

Sending is a human act

No auto-send exists in the code. Approve → hold → undo → your byline.

Every new permission is a ceremony

A read grant never silently widens. Calendar-write arrived through Google's own consent screen, on an explicit Save.

Nothing needs you this morning.

The empty state is the goal state. An honest product gets to say so.

05 · The five promises
It never sends without you.

No auto-send code path exists. Your approval is the send.

It never hides a failure.

Every refusal speaks. A failed send lands in your Drafts, never lost.

It never wastes your morning.

Four decisions, receipts attached. Empty is success.

It never hoards your data.

Metadata only, on your machine. Your mailbox stays the system of record.

You get the credit.

Every reply ships under your name. The work reads as yours, because it is.

06 · Get the alpha

Kill the chaos, get Deliberate.

The alpha is free and invite-gated: install, connect, and get a truthful morning in under five minutes. If the promises above read like the assistant you'd actually let near your inbox, ask for an invite.

You're on the list. When your invite is ready, a human will write to you under their own name.

No spam, no drip sequence. One email when it's your turn.

Plain answers
What do I need?

A Mac, a Google or Microsoft account (email, plus Google Calendar), and your own Claude subscription. Your AI stays yours; we never proxy your content through our servers.

What about Slack, Teams, and the rest?

On the roadmap, with no dates promised. Today Deliberate covers Google and Microsoft email plus Google Calendar, and it covers them well. Chat tools come next.

Anything annoying I should know?

Yes. During alpha, Google's testing-mode tokens expire weekly. Reconnecting is one calm click, but you'll do it every week until we exit testing mode. Microsoft accounts don't have this quirk.

Will it ever send on its own?

No. If you want an email autopilot, this is the wrong product, on purpose.