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*“It seems unlikely that people in 100 years will still be living in the same email hell we do now.”
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<aside> <img src="attachment:37147a1e-ee1d-48af-b74d-916680e4602e:icon1231231.svg" alt="attachment:37147a1e-ee1d-48af-b74d-916680e4602e:icon1231231.svg" width="40px" /> Micro is an AI-powered all-in-one tool for email, CRM, and project management that automatically organizes itself.
The initial product is a light-weight CRM for early-stage founders. It’s the only CRM that features a native email client and automatically updates and enriches records based on activity and a global knowledge graph. Aside from it being a superior and delightful workflow, Micro saves founders 4-6 hours a week.
Micro is built on top of a proprietary AI-native infrastructure we call Prism that extracts and enriches objects (like companies, tasks, documents, deals, flights) from emails (and other systems) so they can be used to power micro apps for any workflow.
Read our announcement post here
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<aside> ℹ️ Status: We have built an incredible product over a short period and a strong technical moat with it (both in terms of proprietary infrastructure and feature volume/quality). We’re early on revenue/growth - intentionally onboarding only a handful beta testers weekly - but feedback is incredibly positive and usage has been significantly increasing.
Team: Brett Goldstein was cofounder/CEO of Launch House, lead product teams at Google and Clearbit, and researched language models at Berkeley. Early team members include Naveen, Sebastian Crossa and Justin Pagano, all former founders, CTOs and life-long technical leaders. Recently ranked in the top 5% of engineering teams based on data via Wise.
Funding: $3.1M with most recent SAFE at $12.5M post
Investors: a16z, Flybridge, Graph, Day One, Michael Ovitz, Balaji Srinivasan, and 50+ early-stage startup founders.
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<aside> 💡 The Key Insight™
We’ve been looking at email wrong for 20+ years.
Email isn’t just a messaging platform, it’s a super app* - From tracking package deliveries to managing sales funnels to document storage (email is bigger than dropbox for document search!), email used for an extremely wide range of thousands of different workflows both for professionals and consumers.
Its the system of record of your professional and personal life - Every person, document, flight, deal, job application, etc is floating around in your inbox. Its the most valuable dataset you own and is where you go to find things.
But email isn’t designed for this - The most popular clients today use decades-old designs for email as async long-form messaging. The most modern improvements on this UX treat ALL email as tasks. Inbox Zero is the dominant culture and says you must action on and process every single email, which does not make sense for many workflows.
This is hurting productivity and mental health - Email overload and communication breakdowns (caused by jamming these workflows into the same under-optimized UX) are driving inefficiencies in business and incredible psychological stress for the billions of email users. Founders who live in email are particularly impacted by this.
We can use LLMs to rearchitect the inbox experience to work for any workflow - Less than a year ago it became financially and technically feasible to extract and organize data from email at scale - from people and companies to deals and flights. This data can be used to create (or generate) micro apps that have unique designs for various workflows, from sales to delivery tracking.
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We’ve been looking at email wrong for 20+ years and it’s hampering the productivity of 1B people, especially early-stage founders
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The Big Problem
The Wedge (what we’re focused on today)
The tools founders use for managing their most crucial functions like Fundraising, Hiring, Sales (email and CRM) are disjointed and require hours of manual work to use
Founders are busy but spend hours manually triaging email and logging activity in Notion/Sheets/Airtable.
Other solutions like Hubspot and Salesforce are too expensive and clunky and newer tools like Attio and Folk still require manual work.
The Gigantic Problem
The Vision (what we’ll do over the long term)
Staying on top of life and work is incredibly difficult the way that email clients are designed today.
Email is the system of record for your life and business. It’s where you go to find documents, do sales, etc. But it’s not designed for this.
Hundreds of different workflows are mixed up in a decades-old interface making it hard to find things and easy to miss things.
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Micro is an all-in-one tool that organizes itself. Making it seamless to stay on top of fundraising, hiring, sales and virtually any other workflow.
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The Wedge
Solves the Big Problem (Today)
A CRM that has a native email experience and automatically updates itself, cutting out 90% of the manual work behind fundraising, hiring and sales
Micro is as easy to use as notion, but more powerful than Hubspot and Salesforce where it matters for founders.
It’s the only CRM with native email client - which eliminates bouncing between multiple tools - and automatically updates records when new calendar/email activity occurs - which eliminates manual work updating records.
The Vision
Solves the Gigantic Problem (Long Term)
A micro application platform that organizes data in email and other systems to let users create interfaces that make sense for what they do
By extracting and organizing objects within email and other systems, Micro allows users (or AI agents) to create unlimited micro apps that are optimally designed for any workflow.
Job applications can be visualized in a kanban, deliveries on a map, etc. People, companies, documents and more 1 click away.
<aside> 🗺️ The Master Plan™
*at each step of the way, leverage cheaper and better AI models to remove manual work from the product experience - from labeling emails to updating records to setting up entire apps and filling them with data - entirely over time until everything is fully managed by AI)
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