Meet PIE & Why We Think Email Is The Future of AI

AI continues to get smarter on a weekly basis and at an exponential rate, but the most important thing for AI to be useful to billions of people is context.  I’m not talking about the context length window, but rather context as the data that we input into AI.  Every AI has a knowledge cutoff and while the ability to feed real-time search data to AI is helpful, it still lacks the most important context - personal context.  

By knowing as much about a person and their work as possible, we can realize a truly agentic future where AI becomes able to execute most of our day to day productivity tasks.  Personal context is the force multiplier that makes AI agents a reality.  I like to think of it as a simple equation  (LLM capability + tooling capability) * personal context = AI Utility.  This goes far beyond a personal assistant, as a human personal assistant is bound by time, whereas software is not.  If personal context is a force multiplier, then where can we get it from? 

Email.  Your inbox is not a list of messages, but an unstructured database chock full of personal information to help AI realize its potential.  Contacts, documents, personal relationships, meetings, and more.  There is no other central repository more important and powerful than an individual’s inbox for both work and personal.  Emails death has been proclaimed many times over the past 20 years, but it has only gotten stronger and more widespread.  The problem is the data and personal context inside your inbox has been locked away due to its highly unstructured nature.  Thankfully AI is the perfect solution to working with highly unstructured data. 

This is why we built PIE (short for Personal Intelligence Engine),  the DO IT ALL executive assistant powered by the personal context of your inbox.  PIE connects to your inbox, makes sense of the unstructured data in your inbox, and turns it into personal context that can be made useful by our personal assistant. Email is an interface that everyone uses on a daily basis, which means PIE just works out of the box in the background when it sees a new email or when you email it directly to complete a task.

At launch your PIE assistant already has an incredible amount of capabilities with more being added all the time.  It personally saves me hours every single day.  

Meeting Dossiers

Before meetings, PIE provides comprehensive dossiers on attendees, covering professional backgrounds, recent work, social media profiles, and mutual connections—helping you walk into every meeting fully informed and confident.

Smart Task Extraction

PIE automatically spots tasks hidden in your emails and meetings—even those you didn't notice. It intelligently captures action items, deadlines, and follow-ups, building a prioritized to-do list that keeps you effortlessly organized and on track.

Deep Research & Analysis

Need a research report on competitors, the market, or anything at all? PIE will generate it and send you a detailed report by email. It will also create an editable powerpoint based upon the research that's attached to the email.

Smart Email Drafts:

PIE intelligently drafts thoughtful email responses for your approval, using context from prior conversations and attachments—professional-quality replies with zero effort.

Intelligent Email Labeling & Stacks:

Your inbox auto-organizes emails into smart labels (Important, Follow-up, Work, Personal) and dynamic stacks based on your criteria—effortlessly keeping your inbox tidy and focused.

Hide Unnecessary Emails:

Cut through inbox clutter as PIE automatically hides low-priority or irrelevant emails, ensuring you see only what's important.

Daily Email Digests:

Start (or end) your day with beautifully formatted email summaries highlighting critical messages, tasks, and actionable insights. Choose morning, midday, or evening digests tailored to your routine.

Make Phone Calls:

PIE can call places for you—renew prescriptions, book appointments, or handle small tasks over the phone, using stored context to manage details without hassle.

Meeting Scheduler:

Let PIE coordinate your calendar. It checks availability, schedules meetings, and even handles rescheduling on your Google Calendar, saving you the headache of back-and-forth coordination.

Attend Meetings & Take Notes

 PIE attends meetings by phone and takes detailed notes, transcribes discussions, and sends you crisp summaries afterward.

Podcast Summaries & Subscriptions

Tell PIE your favorite podcasts, and it'll proactively notify you about new episodes—complete with summaries, key insights, and full transcripts.

Invoice Extraction & Tracking

Bills and invoices emailed to you are automatically processed—extracting key info, organizing expenses, and tracking deadlines so you're never caught off-guard.

AI Receptionist

Never miss an important call. PIE's receptionist answers phone calls on your behalf, sending detailed transcripts, creating tasks, and keeping unwanted distractions at bay.

Smart Document & Image Analysis

Forward or attach PDFs, images, or docs, and PIE instantly analyzes their content. Audio files? It'll transcribe those, too, turning all your data into searchable personal knowledge.

Encrypted Personal Memory

PIE securely stores important personal information, from prescriptions and travel itineraries to key documents—fully encrypted and instantly retrievable whenever you need to enhance your work.

These have been fun to build and we’ll certainly release more as fast as we can.  The end game for PIE is a platform where anyone can extend its functionality to build tools that make use of someone’s personal context.  Those tools can be private for internal use or public for anyone to use.  

I’m excited to be building PIE not only as a founder, but an engineer due to my obsession with email.  Over 16 years ago I wrote a highly popular blog post called “Email Is Serious Business” https://www.jasonlbaptiste.com/email-newsletters-business/ and have been obsessed with it ever since as a business.  It’s also an open protocol, which lowers platform risk and is why it has lived on while other platforms have declined. 

Try PIE today at https://mailtopie.com  and feel free to email me at [email protected] OR call my assistant at to share your thoughts/questions at 914.415.5722