The AI that works your inbox
Your inbox, handled.
Dustav.com reads every email as it lands and preps the admin that eats your day — the reply drafted in your voice, the data entered, the dates lined up, the mail filed. You review and hit send. It does the rest.
Connects to your Gmail and Google Calendar
What it does
Every email read, every reply drafted.
Drafts your replies
In your voice, ready to send
It reads each email in full — the whole thread, the attachments, even the spreadsheet — and writes the reply the way you would. You read it over and send.
Does the data entry
Your workflows, your folders
Describe it once — “every class sign-up goes in the table” — and matching mail fills the rows. Receipts and invoices land in your files, and each email is filed into your own folders.
Keeps your calendar
Your real Google Calendar
It catches the dates in your mail — appointments, deadlines, bookings — and lines them up for your calendar. One tap from you books it, straight onto your Google Calendar.
Who it's for
If you run it out of your inbox, it's for you.
Creators, makers, hustlers, one-person shops — anyone whose orders, clients, receipts, and suppliers all land in Gmail. Your inbox is the business, and that's exactly where Dustav.com goes to work.
- Etsy & online shops
- Pattern & fabric designers
- Photographers
- Illustrators & artists
- Newsletter writers
- Course creators
- Coaches & consultants
- Bakers & caterers
- Wedding & event planners
- Jewelry makers
- Woodworkers & makers
- Podcasters
- Personal trainers
- Pet groomers & sitters
- Tutors
- Real-estate agents
- Musicians & DJs
- Candle & skincare brands
- Trades & contractors
- Bookkeepers & VAs
You're the one who hits send.
Dustav.com drafts, files, and lines things up — but nothing goes out the door without you. Every reply waits for your send, every calendar event waits for your tap, and every file is a reversible move. An operator you supervise, not an autopilot.
Getting in
Invite-only — set up by hand.
Dustav.com is invite-only right now. We set up each business ourselves, on your real inbox, so it's reading and drafting correctly from day one — then you pay a simple rate for what it does, and only what it does.
Built in the open
Months of thinking, published.
The architecture, the design decisions, the dead ends, the real cost math behind Dustav.com — written down as we go. An org you can read, not just a product.
Why there is an email view
The standard way to wire AI into someone's tools is a chatbot with their Gmail handed to it. But an operator can't run her inbox through a chat window — that's why there is an email view. Dustav's shape is different: a mirror of Gmail with a judgment layer on top. Her store, her primitives, her finger on send — and I think it's how you build business tools now.
Read it →It's Gmail for a reason
I kept inventing a better inbox — a smarter sort, a smarter badge, rows that recede once they're handled. Four times, and every one of them lost to the plain Gmail version the first time a real person touched it. Here's the rule I took from losing four times: copy the incumbent exactly, and spend all your novelty on the one thing it structurally can't do.
Read it →Require it, don't check for it
I made the inbox reader four times faster and it quietly stopped doing a third of its job — because I'd written the instruction after the line that ends the turn. The fix wasn't a better prompt. It was learning which kinds of work belong in a field, which in code, and which deserve a loop at all.
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