AI Email Assistant Built for Founders

Investor updates, board follow-ups, and team communications -- drafted in your voice in seconds, not hours. Draftery learns how you write so you can spend less time in your inbox and more time building your company.

The email challenges founders face

Investor emails that consume your mornings

Monthly portfolio updates, post-pitch follow-ups, and due diligence responses pile up fast. Each one needs your personal voice and strategic framing -- you cannot delegate an investor update to an assistant who does not understand your cap table.

Context-switching between relationship types

One thread with a lead investor requires polished, data-backed language. The next thread with your co-founder is casual shorthand. A message to a key hire candidate needs to sell the vision. Your brain pays the switching cost every time you change recipients.

Board communications that demand precision

Board emails are high-stakes: formal tone, strategic framing, backed by metrics. A single misworded sentence can trigger unnecessary follow-up calls. You spend 20 minutes perfecting a reply that should take two.

Time on email vs. time building product

Every hour you spend drafting emails is an hour not spent on product decisions, customer conversations, or fundraising strategy. At a founder's opportunity cost, a 90-minute email session is one of the most expensive line items in your day.

Emails Draftery handles for founders

After a board meeting

Board Meeting Follow-Up -- Q4 Metrics & Next Steps

Thanks for the productive discussion today. Here is a summary of the key decisions and the three action items we agreed on for Q1...

Monthly investor update

December Investor Update -- ARR Growth & Product Milestones

Happy New Year. Here is our December update: ARR crossed $1.2M, we shipped the new onboarding flow, and we are opening a Series A process in February...

Co-founder alignment

Team All-Hands Recap + Action Items

Quick recap from today's all-hands for anyone who missed it. Three things to know: Q4 revenue hit target, we are hiring two engineers, and the product roadmap for Q1 is locked...

Fundraising follow-up

Re: Follow-Up from Demo Last Tuesday

Great meeting you at the demo day. As discussed, I have attached our updated deck with the cohort retention data you asked about. Happy to schedule a deeper dive whenever works...

Key hire outreach

Loved Your Talk at React Conf -- Quick Question

Your session on server components was the highlight of the conference for me. We are building something at Draftery that aligns closely with your work, and I would love to tell you more...

How Draftery learns your founder voice

Every founder communicates differently. Some are direct and data-driven -- three bullet points and a next step. Others tell a narrative, weaving metrics into a story that keeps investors engaged. Draftery does not impose a template. It learns from the emails you have already sent.

Your morning might start with an investor update that needs to feel confident without being arrogant, followed by a board reply that is formal and precise, then a Slack-to-email recap for your team that is casual and energizing. Draftery picks up on these tonal shifts. It learns that your investor emails open with metrics, your board replies reference prior meeting notes, and your team emails start with a personal check-in.

The more you use Draftery, the sharper it gets. Every edit you make to a draft -- softening a phrase here, adding a data point there -- teaches the system what your voice actually sounds like across different contexts.

  • Learns from your sent emails -- no questionnaires or style guides to fill out
  • Adapts tone per recipient: casual with co-founders, formal with board members, enthusiastic with recruits
  • Gets better with every edit you make to a generated draft

From inbox overload to inbox control

Here is what a founder's morning looks like without Draftery: 7:00 AM, you open your laptop to a board member's follow-up from last night. You spend 18 minutes crafting a careful reply. 7:20 AM, two investor update requests are waiting. You draft the first one in 25 minutes, then realize you need to customize the second for a different audience. Another 20 minutes. 8:05 AM, your CTO sent a team recap that needs your sign-off and a personal note at the top. 15 more minutes. By 8:20 AM, you have spent 78 minutes on email and have not thought about your product once.

Now here is the same morning with Draftery: 7:00 AM, you open the board follow-up. Draftery has a draft ready -- it referenced the last board meeting's action items and used the formal tone you always use with this director. You tweak one sentence and send. Two minutes. 7:02 AM, both investor updates are drafted with the right metrics pulled from your last update. You review, adjust a paragraph in the second one, and send both. Six minutes total. 7:08 AM, the team recap has your personal note already written in your casual team voice. You send it in 90 seconds.

By 7:10 AM, your inbox is clear. You have 70 minutes back. That is the difference between email running your day and you running your company.

Why founders are switching to AI email assistants

The average startup founder sends 50 or more emails per day across fundraising, product, hiring, and team contexts. At 3 minutes per email, that is 2.5 hours daily -- 12.5 hours per week -- spent on communication that could be drafted in seconds.

This is not a productivity hack. It is a structural problem. Founders are the bottleneck in their own companies, and email is one of the biggest contributors. Every investor update you delay weakens the relationship. Every slow reply to a candidate risks losing them to a faster-moving competitor. Every board email you agonize over is time you are not spending on the decisions that actually move the needle.

AI email assistants have crossed the quality threshold where the first draft is good enough to send with minor edits. Draftery specifically learns your voice rather than generating generic corporate language, which means the output actually sounds like you wrote it. Founders who switch report reclaiming 5 or more hours per week -- time that goes directly back into building, selling, and leading.

  • 50+ emails per day is normal for founders managing investors, team, and customers simultaneously
  • 3 minutes per email adds up to 12+ hours per week of drafting time
  • AI-generated first drafts cut per-email time from minutes to seconds
  • Voice learning means drafts sound like you, not like a chatbot

Less than one hour of founder time

Founders spend an average of 2.5 hours daily on email. Draftery cuts that to under 30 minutes by handling the first draft of every reply. At a founder's opportunity cost, even reclaiming one hour per day means thousands of dollars in recovered focus time each month -- time you can redirect toward fundraising, product, and the decisions only you can make.

$19/month

Save 5+ hours/week

Worth $2,000+/month in recovered founder time

Helpful Resources

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my investor email data private and secure?
Draftery processes your email content to generate drafts but never stores or shares your email content with third parties. Your investor communications, board discussions, and fundraising data stay completely private. We use encryption in transit and at rest, and we never train models on your data.
How does Draftery learn my communication style?
Draftery analyzes the emails you have already sent to understand your patterns -- sentence structure, vocabulary, tone, and how you open and close messages. It also learns from every edit you make to a generated draft. Over time, it picks up nuances like how you write differently to investors versus your team.
Does Draftery work with Gmail?
Yes. Draftery is built as a Gmail extension and works directly inside your inbox. You do not need to switch between apps or copy-paste drafts. When you open an email thread, Draftery generates a contextual reply draft right there in Gmail.
What does the free trial include?
The 7-day free trial gives you full access to Draftery with no credit card required. You can generate unlimited drafts, and the system starts learning your voice from day one. If you decide Draftery is not for you, just stop using it -- there is nothing to cancel.
Can Draftery handle different tones for different recipients?
Absolutely. Draftery understands that a message to your lead investor requires a different tone than a message to your engineering team. It adapts based on the recipient and the context of the conversation, so your board replies are formal and precise while your team emails stay casual and direct.

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