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

A better email client vs. an agent that handles email

Shortwave is a genuinely good email client. It sits on top of Gmail, threads conversations into clean bundles, 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. If your problem is that Gmail is slow and noisy to read, Shortwave fixes that.

But everything in Shortwave still routes through you sitting in the app. It drafts when you ask, summarizes when you open the thread, and surfaces what to do next — then waits. Fasrad starts from the other end. The agent has its own dedicated inbox. New mail arrives, it triages the batch by intent, drafts the replies that need one, books the call against your real calendar availability, files the rest, and writes back when it hit send. You read the summary of what it did, not the pile it did it from.

Where the line falls:

• Shortwave is the better day-to-day reading experience inside your own Gmail — its threaded UI, instant AI search across your whole mailbox, and inline summaries are more polished than reading email in a chat window.
• 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, not just drafts — staggered personalized outreach from a Google Sheet up to ~100/day, then triages the replies.
• Fasrad spans more than email: same agent runs your calendar, CRM, notes, datastores, web research, and reaches you on Telegram or a public embed.

Pick Shortwave if you mostly want a faster, smarter way to read and write your own Gmail and you like living in your inbox. Pick Fasrad if you'd rather hand the inbox to something that works it for you — triaging, replying, booking, and following up — and check in on what it did.

Related pages in this workflow

These pages cover the adjacent jobs buyers usually compare before choosing an AI agent.

• AI Personal Assistant — Your calendar, your follow-ups, your morning brief — run by an assistant with its own inbox, so you stop being your own secretary.
• AI Virtual Assistant — An assistant that does the work, not just the chat: its own inbox and calendar, your meetings booked, 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 — Closes the loop instead of dropping a transcript: it answers from your real pages, captures the lead, and books the meeting.
• AI Cold Outreach Agent — Personalizing cold email at volume is a full-time job; a blast just burns your domain. The agent does both — and books the replies — so you only show up for the meeting.
• 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; someone still has to dig through it. Fasrad reads every page and answers from the right doc — no tabs, no digging.
• 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, and that's the point. Shortwave replaces the Gmail interface you read and write in. Fasrad doesn't give you a nicer inbox to sit in — it gives an agent its own inbox and has it triage, draft, send, book, and follow up. You read what it did, not the raw pile.

What does Shortwave still do better?

If your goal is reading and writing your own email faster, Shortwave wins. Its threaded client, instant AI search across your full mailbox, and inline thread summaries are more polished than working email through a chat agent. Fasrad has no rich mail-reading UI — it's built to act on the inbox, not to be the place you live in it. Many people use both: Shortwave to read, Fasrad to do.

Can Fasrad actually send email, or only draft?

It sends. Beyond 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. You can keep it in draft-only mode 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. No rules engine, no keyword matching that breaks on a reworded subject line.

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, not the whole product.

How much does it cost?

$49/month or $490/year — cancel anytime. 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.