Shortwave makes your inbox faster to read. Fasrad reads it for you.

A better email client vs. an agent that handles email

Shortwave is an email client that sits on top of Gmail. It bundles threads, summarizes long chains in a sentence or two, and lets you ask its assistant to find that attachment from March or draft a reply in your voice. It makes reading and writing your own Gmail faster.

Everything in Shortwave still routes through you sitting in the app. It drafts when you ask and summarizes when you open the thread. It surfaces what to do next, then waits.

Fasrad starts from the other end. Connect your own Gmail and it works right on that inbox (read-only, sending as you only on your approval), or give the agent a dedicated inbox of its own. When new mail arrives, it triages the batch by intent and drafts the replies that need one. It books the call against your real calendar availability, files the rest, and tells you what it sent. You read the summary of what it did.

Where the line falls:

• Shortwave is a reading experience inside your own Gmail: a threaded UI, AI search across your mailbox, and inline summaries you read and drive yourself.
• Fasrad acts without you in the app. It can run on a schedule or fire on a new_email trigger and clear the inbox before you wake up.
• Fasrad sends. It runs staggered personalized outreach from a Google Sheet, up to ~100/day, then triages the replies.
• Fasrad spans more than email. The same agent runs your calendar, CRM, notes, datastores and web research, and reaches you on Telegram or a public embed.

Pick Fasrad when you'd rather hand the inbox to something that works it for you and check in on what it did.

Related pages in this workflow

Buyers usually compare these adjacent jobs before choosing an AI agent.

• AI Personal Assistant: Your calendar, your follow-ups and your morning brief, run by an assistant with its own inbox. You stop being your own secretary.
• AI Virtual Assistant: An assistant that does the work: your inbox or one of its own, a connected calendar, your meetings booked, and the replies you’d forget chased down.
• AI Booking Bot for Websites: Turns a website visitor into a booked meeting: it qualifies the request, offers real availability, books your calendar, and hands you the notes.
• AI Website Chatbot for Your Site: It answers from your real pages, captures the lead, and books the meeting, so you get a customer instead of a transcript.
• AI Cold Outreach Agent: Personalizes cold email at volume without burning your domain, books the replies, and leaves you the meetings.
• AI Research Analyst: Hand it a question and a deadline, get a brief that shows its work: figures, links, and the page each number came from.
• Notion Alternative: Notion is brilliant storage, and someone still has to dig through it. Fasrad reads every page and answers from the right doc while your tabs stay closed.
• Calendly Alternative That Reads & Replies: A booking link can’t read the email it’s pasted into. Fasrad can. It proposes the slot that fits, books it and briefs you before you walk in.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fasrad an email client like Shortwave?

No. Shortwave replaces the Gmail interface you read and write in. Fasrad works the inbox for you. Connect your own Gmail (read-only, sending as you only on your approval) or give it a dedicated inbox of its own, and it triages, drafts, sends, books and follows up. You read what it did.

How is Shortwave different from Fasrad?

Shortwave is a client you read and write your own email in, with a threaded UI, AI search across your full mailbox and inline thread summaries. Fasrad does the work instead of showing you the mail. Connect your own Gmail (read-only, sending as you only on your approval) or give it a dedicated inbox of its own, and it triages, drafts, sends, books and follows up. It can also keep an optional private copy of your mailbox you can search by meaning across years. Some people use both: Shortwave to read, Fasrad to do.

Can Fasrad actually send email, or only draft?

It sends. Besides replying to incoming mail, it runs personalized outreach from a Google Sheet, staggered to roughly 100 a day to stay deliverable, then triages the replies that come back. Draft-only mode is there if you'd rather approve every send.

How does triage work without me building filters?

You describe the outcome in plain language: "draft replies to clients, book anything asking for a demo, leave newsletters alone." The agent reads each message's actual intent and acts, so a reworded subject line doesn't trip it up.

Does it do more than email?

Yes. The same agent runs Google Calendar (availability, events, meeting-prep briefings), Sheets and Drive, a built-in CRM and notes, private datastores it can query, web search and full-page browse, and any REST API. Email is one surface it acts on.

How much does it cost?

Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. Setup takes about four minutes. Connect a Gmail address, describe the rules in plain words, and the agent starts working the inbox. It's in public beta.