Your mailbox, with help

Email is where a lot of real work actually lands, and it's usually the tool that's least connected to everything else you use. LinearPilot treats your mailbox as part of the platform rather than a separate tab: connect Gmail, Outlook or a plain IMAP account and you read, reply, search and file inside LinearPilot, alongside the records the mail is about.

One thing to know before you connect, because it's the kind of detail that's annoying to discover later: the providers are not at parity. Gmail is the complete implementation — attachments, drafts saved back to your account, the full set of folders. Outlook connects and does the core job of reading, replying, sending, starring, archiving and reporting spam, but it doesn't yet do attachments or saved drafts, and it reads your inbox rather than browsing your folders. IMAP is narrower still. We would rather put that in the second paragraph than in a support ticket.

The AI help is specific, which matters, because “AI-powered inbox” on its own means nothing. The most immediate piece is drafting. When a message needs a reply, the assistant can write one for you to read, edit, and send. You start from a draft that already understands the thread instead of from an empty box and a blinking cursor. The draft lands in the editor and stops there — sending is a separate thing you do, every time.

Alongside drafting, it screens for likely spam, translates messages that arrive in a language you'd rather not read, and gives you live search across every connected account so finding the thread from three weeks ago isn't an archaeology project. These are small things individually. Together they take a noticeable amount of friction off email as a daily chore.

Two of those deserve their real boundaries. Translation works on mail you receive: you can read an incoming message in your own language. It does not translate a reply on the way back out — if you need to write in someone else's language, that is still your job today. And spam screening only ever warns. A suspected message is flagged where you can see it and left exactly where it is; nothing is moved, relabelled or filed away on your behalf, and moving something to junk remains a decision you make.

Live search matters for a duller but more constant reason: the thing you need is nearly always buried in a message you only half-remember. The search runs against the mail providers themselves rather than a stale local copy, across all your connected accounts at once, which turns “I know they mentioned a date somewhere” into a ten-second lookup instead of ten minutes of scrolling.

Then there's the AI Inbox, which works on a different rhythm. Instead of reacting message by message, it runs in the background and produces a digest every six hours: a short, readable summary of what came in that you'd actually want to know about, delivered a few times a day rather than as an endless stream of notifications.

The detail that makes the digest trustworthy is that it cites its sources, and not as a matter of asking the model nicely. Every point in the summary carries a reference to a specific message, those references are checked against the messages that were actually fetched, and any item left without a valid one is dropped before you ever see it. If there is nothing worth reporting, you get an empty digest rather than an invented one. A summary you can't check is a liability dressed up as a convenience, and an AI reading your mail is exactly the wrong place to ask for blind trust.

That guarantee matters more for a digest than for almost anything else, because the entire promise of a digest is that you'll act on it without reading every message yourself. If you're going to trust a short summary to tell you what needs a reply today, it has to let you drop straight into the original the instant something looks off. Citations are simply what make it safe to skim.

The six-hour cadence is a choice, not a limitation we're apologizing for. The goal is to batch “here's what happened” into a handful of calm checkpoints across the day, instead of yet another app tapping you on the shoulder every time a message arrives. If you want the running feed, the live client is right there; the digest is for when you don't.

The point of all of it isn't to reinvent how you do email. It's to take the reading-and-triaging tax off the top of your day. A draft waiting instead of a blank reply. A short digest instead of two hundred unreads. The mailbox is still yours; it just isn't only your problem anymore.