This MIT And Harvard Startup Is Making Writing Emails Easier And Effortless
Email is a necessary task for any role in Corporate America. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, roughly 28% of our time is spent “answering, writing, or responding to email.” A talented team filled with MIT and Harvard affiliates have built a nifty, Gmail-integrated tool that can help you draft your emails quicker.
Filip Twarowski, Lambert Chu, and Matthew Huggins came together to found EasyEmail, an email productivity tool powered by artificial intelligence. EasyEmail learns from your previous Gmail history to autocomplete sentences for you while your email is being drafted. When it comes to email, the biggest cost is time. There is a plethora of untapped value at stake within the email productivity space. McKinsey estimates that $900 billion to $1.3 trillion could be unlocked annually if these tools can make emails less time-consuming.
The immediate value of EasyEmail lies in its ability to save your time. For most of us, we answer nearly identical or similar questions from a sender. Seeing as you’ve already answered that same question in a past email from a different sender, it would be easier to have a response automatically suggested to you based on your previous email correspondence. As you type your email, EasyEmail digests the context of the email you’re responding to and suggests potential phrases or sentences to quickly draft your email. This autocomplete feature, similar to predictive text on a phone or code formatter in a development console, saves time in responding to repetitive questions over email. For the three co-founders, they know how critical it is to not lose precious time to email.
Twarowski, before becoming the CEO of EasyEmail, was a lead organizer of the MIT Fall Career Fair, MIT’s largest and fully student-run recruiting event for employers. He was receiving hundreds of emails daily from companies looking to fork over cash for a booth to woo MIT students to their companies. Most of the questions were the same — “How much does a booth cost? What are the different perks that come with each tier? Who do I make the check out to?”
He knew there had to be a better way to respond to these emails containing the same questions. Twarowski had a problem that needed a solution. He spoke with his…
