Chris Messina

Cora - The $150K chief of staff for your inbox, at just $15/month

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Cora frees you from email by screening your inbox: showing only what's important, drafting responses in your voice, and briefing the rest 2x daily. It's a $150k chief of staff for just $15/month—because you were made to live your life, not chase inbox zero.

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Brandon Gell

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

We built Cora because we like building but hate emailing, and our inbox was an endless to-do list written by everyone else but ourselves.

We initially designed Cora to draft our emails. Then we discovered something obvious but hard to recognize: 80% of our emails don't need responses—or any of our attention at all. They're just distractions.

The problem isn't writing emails faster. It's that we're drowning in emails that don't matter.

Meanwhile, CEOs with $150K executive assistants don't have this problem. Their assistants screen everything, handle the routine stuff, draft responses, and only surface what truly needs attention.

So we rebuilt Cora from the ground up—not just as an email writer, but as a chief of staff for your inbox:

🎯 It screens your emails
Cora learns what actually matters to you and keeps those in your inbox. Everything else? It puts into your Brief.

✍️ It drafts responses in your voice
For emails that need replies, Cora writes them like you would, in your voice, personality, and tone, depending on the recipient.

📋 It briefs you on the rest
Twice daily, get a beautiful summary of everything you should know about but don't need to act on. 30 seconds instead of 2 hours of maintaining your inbox.

After a year of building and 6 months in beta with thousands of daily active users, Cora is ready.

We built Cora because you were made to live your life, not chase inbox zero.

Welcome to life beyond inbox zero,

- The Cora and Every team

Chris Messina
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Launching soon!

Cora is an incredibly ambitious project — aiming to tame the morass that is the modern inbox and turn into something you can get through in a matter of focused minutes, not distractingly grazed throughout the day.

If you run your business from your inbox and are overrun — give Cora a try. 💌

Victor Stepanov

@chrismessina thank you for hunting us! 'incredibly ambitious' is the best compliment we could hope for 🎯 it's fascinating to see how products have evolved from amplifying our digital interactions to being something that shield us from unnecessary noise, reshaping the way we relate to technology—turning it from a constant distraction into an ally for deep, intentional work.

glad to have you on board!

Dan Pierce

Congrats on your launch.🎉

I really love Cora and use everyday alternative of my default Inbox!

Before using it, I spent a lot of time in my inbox. It was my first coffee after waking up, but it often gave me a headache.

But checking Cora's emails just twice a day not only made my coffee more comfortable, it also helped me to avoid unnecessary distractions.

I'm grateful that they've been providing it for free while checking user trends. It's become a must-have for me, so I'm going to subscribe.🤣

Victor Stepanov

Hey 👋@d41 Thanks so much for the support! That's exactly why we built Cora—to give people their mornings back ☕️ Hearing that your first coffee is now headache-free absolutely makes our day. We really appreciate you sticking with us through the beta and choosing to subscribe now. If you ever have ideas, questions, or just want to share how Cora's working for you, we'd be happy to hear from you!

Konstantin Panfilov

Seems interesting, good luck with that! Finally something to declutter my messy inbox.

Victor Stepanov

appreciate your support @panphilov means a lot to us! if you give Cora a try, we'd be happy to hear about your experience!

Syed Ahmed

Really excited to give Cora a shot. I built something for myself thats similar but I no longer want to maintain, Cora seems to replace alot of that functionality. I'd love to see how it performs sifting through alot of my technical emails. I get alot of log alerts and activity alerts on github which muddy up my inbox. Those emails are important at times but usually can wait unless theres literally a service outage. Since priorities shift in a day, I've been looking for something thats smart enough to understand my patterns.

Victor Stepanov

@syedahmedz this is exactly what we're trying to solve with Cora! it's like you've mentioned—it's good to have AI understand your patterns. at the same time we've built in a way to communicate with Cora to update those patterns—you can literally chat with it to update how your inbox is organized, change how Cora handles certain messages, and customize your workflow. give it a try!

Keith Salins

great product great team love it to the moon

Victor Stepanov

@keiths thanks for your support 🙌

Nikhil Hingorani

Great product! But what about security since you get complete access to all my emails?

Victor Stepanov

@nikhil_hingorani Hey! Thanks for your support! Totally get the security concerns. We're Google Verified and CASA Tier 2 compliant—Google's highest security bar for email integrations. And we architected Cora around three key principles:

  • no human access (aka we never see your emails).

  • no training on your data: we use LLMs to understand/draft emails, but your data never becomes part of their training set

  • no destructive permissions: Cora can read and draft, but can't send or delete.

Happy to answer any specific concerns!

Danny Aziz

I haven't really opened my email app in 2025. Thanks to Cora, I'm actually more responsive now, because I'm not drowning in chaos. It filters the noise and surfaces what truly matters in logical order. I get sanity instead of overwhelm.

My inbox runs itself while I focus on what counts.

I've been watching Kieran build this for a very long time. I'm excited for everyone to finally get their hands on it!

Victor Stepanov

@dannyaziz97 thanks for your support! Sanity instead of overwhelm does really hit different, right? Most email tools (over)optimize for efficiency, but I always felt that optimizing for peace of mind and focus is the way to go.

Shubhankar Srivastava

Been a Superhuman superuser for years, but Cora seems to be Superhuman on steroids!!

Victor Stepanov

@shubhankar_srivastava1 Cora <3 Superhuman ❤️

Natalia

Gorgeous design! Briefs make email a breeze

Victor Stepanov

@nataliazarina thank you for your support! @lucas_crespo truly did an amazing job there. I wish my calendar app looked like this now to be honest 😂

Shahzad Ahsan

I am loving this tool!! I use it 2x a day and it reclaimed my inbox.

Ben Robertson

I’d really love to try Cora, but does it support non-Gmail email?

Brandon Gell

@benrobertson Not yet but you can join the waitlist and we'll let you know when we're live on your platform

Jesse J. Anderson

Congrats on the launch. I actually just signed up for Cora yesterday and enjoying it so far! Hoping this could be part of my email solution.

A couple of quick questions:

  1. Any plans for an ios/mobile app? The mobile web interface is usable, but it would be nice to have a native app (with a more responsive UI, etc) for navigating and interacting with Cora's briefs.

  2. What are most people using as their "other" app with Cora? Just vanilla Gmail?

Chris Messina
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Launching soon!

This is a great backgrounder:


John Wetzel

Cora has flipped the way that I view my email.

Email is unavoidable...might as well make it a great part of the day rather than something you dread!

Amber S

Congrats on the launch! I've been looking for potential COS/PA options. Often my emails include coordinating calls/meets. Does Cora integrate with calendars as well?

Trevor Sookraj

Fell in love with this product during the beta — was skeptical that it would be smart enough for inbox management, and I've been blown away. The briefs are accurate, well-organized, and I still get 'important' emails in my inbox that I can review manually.

Haven't fully used the new AI assistant, but I'm bullish that it'll improve the experience. Best inbox management tool I've used thus far.