AI-native email for business
Shortwave is an AI-native email platform designed to supercharge team productivity through advanced AI and real-time collaboration. It's available for Gmail accounts on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. The platform empowers ambitious teams at companies of all sizes, offering features like AI-powered email writing and enhancement, intelligent search, autocomplete suggestions, and seamless scheduling capabilities. Shortwave also prioritizes team collaboration with shared threads, private comments, and task assignment features. The platform boasts a user-friendly interface, focusing on inbox organization and efficiency through features such as split inboxes, email bundles, and todo list integration. Shortwave also offers granular push controls, Do Not Disturb mode, custom themes, and multi-account support. Privacy and security are key, with features like image proxy and tracking pixel blocking. The platform integrates with CRMs and offers various other features to enhance email management and team collaboration.
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Handle multi-step workflows autonomously
Example
Schedule meeting → Find time → Send invite → Confirm attendees
Save 5-10 hours/week on routine coordination tasks
Gather data from multiple sources and summarize
Example
Research competitor pricing across 5 websites, create comparison table
Reduce research time from hours to minutes
Analyze options and recommend actions
Example
Review 20 vendor proposals, score against criteria, rank top 3
Make data-driven decisions faster
AI agents combine large language models with tools, memory, and decision-making logic to autonomously complete multi-step tasks without constant human guidance.
Large language model for reasoning and decision-making
Understand tasks, plan steps, generate responses
APIs, databases, external services the agent can call
Take actions beyond text generation (search, compute, write files)
Short-term (conversation) and long-term (persistent) memory
Maintain context across interactions and learn from past actions
Decision engine for choosing next action
Plan multi-step workflows and handle errors/edge cases
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Shortwave reduced evaluation time — saves/upvotes on explainx.ai correlated with fewer surprises in the trial.
Shortwave has been stable for production-ish demos; the explainx.ai page was a useful single link to share internally.
Shortwave has been stable for production-ish demos; the explainx.ai page was a useful single link to share internally.
Shortwave is a strong agent listing on explainx.ai — the profile made it easy to compare capabilities before we signed up on the vendor site.
We piloted Shortwave for two weeks; the registry summary and category tag matched what the product actually emphasizes.
According to our evaluation, Shortwave benefits from clear positioning — fewer buzzwords than typical agent landing pages.
According to our evaluation, Shortwave benefits from clear positioning — fewer buzzwords than typical agent landing pages.
We piloted Shortwave for two weeks; the registry summary and category tag matched what the product actually emphasizes.
Shortwave is a strong agent listing on explainx.ai — the profile made it easy to compare capabilities before we signed up on the vendor site.
Solid agent profile: Shortwave links out cleanly and the on-site reviews add signal beyond marketing copy.
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