Shortwave makes your inbox faster to read; Fasrad reads it for you — its own inbox, triaging, drafting, sending, and following up.
Shortwave is a sharper Gmail client you still drive; Fasrad is an agent with its own inbox that triages, drafts, sends, and follows up while you do something else.
Shortwave is an email client that sits on top of Gmail. It threads conversations into 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. It's built to make reading and writing your own Gmail faster.
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. 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. 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:
Pick Fasrad when 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, instead of living in the inbox yourself.
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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 — connect your own Gmail and it works that inbox for you (read-only, sending as you only on your approval), or give it a dedicated inbox of its own; either way it triages, drafts, sends, books, and follows up. You read what it did, not the raw pile.
Shortwave is a client you read and write your own email in — a threaded UI, AI search across your full mailbox, inline thread summaries. Fasrad isn't a mail-reading UI: connect your own Gmail and it works that inbox for you (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, so you read what it did rather than the raw pile. It can also keep an optional private, searchable copy of your mailbox you can search by meaning across years. Some people use both: Shortwave to read, Fasrad to do.
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.
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.
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.
$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.