Read AI sets up an email-based ‘digital twin’ to help you with scheduling and feedback

Conference columnist Read AI on Thursday launched an AI email assistant called Ada, saying it helps users manage their schedules, answer questions based on company information, and respond to out-of-office emails.

The company calls Ada a “digital twin” that does all the work for you. Read AI said that the assistant will be available to all users, and they can start editing it by sending an email to “ada@read.ai” and writing “Let’s get started.”

When you ask Ada to make an appointment, it responds to someone in the thread with your availability. If the other person says they don’t have that time and wants a different time, Ada responds with new options. Although Ada has access to your calendar through Read AI, it does not reveal how these meetings are shared with other people.

Ada can also answer questions using company information, topics you’ve discussed in the past, and web searches. For example, you might ask, “Ada, can you give us an update on how we’re tracking Q1 goals?” for more information.

If someone asks a question in the thread, Ada will prepare an answer for you and help you edit it before it is sent to the other person. The founder said that Ada does not disclose any personal information without your consent.

Read’s AI Vice President of Product, Justin Farris, said that the new interface does not rely on MCPs (Model Context Protocols, a technical standard for connecting AI tools and external services), and instead builds a picture of knowledge based on experiences with connected services to get detailed answers. He said that after a while, the agent will do something for you. For example, if you mention the next item in the meeting, Ada will ask you to put it after the meeting and what’s going on.

“The way I explain our solution is that when you bring in a new employee, you train them. When you add Ada to your work flow and integrate more services to provide more information, it starts to scale and do more work for you,” CEO David Shim told TechCrunch.

The company said that even though Ada works through email, it will soon be available on Slack and Teams.

On the sidelines of Web Summit Qatar earlier this month, Shim told TechCrunch that the company now has more than 5 million monthly users and plans to expand that number to 10 million. He said the company sees 50,000 subscribers every day and has 100,000 users who consume Read AI content, such as meeting summaries, without creating an account.

For Read AI, the US remains the world’s largest and fastest growing market. Although 60% of users are outside the US, the revenue is evenly distributed.

The company, which has increased $81 million in cashis adding AI-powered tools to its suite. Last year, it started Search for Copilot to get information to users, and last month, it added the ability to update the customer relations program, send custom emails from within the conference report, and have information on topics from sources. for internal and online information.

Some conference writers are also offering new tools to extract more information and actions from conference notes. Last September, Granola added “recipes” in the iterative process upstream information from meeting data. Quillwhich went private with $6.5 million this week, integrates various tools such as Linear, Notion, and CRMs, and aims to create jobs.