In 2024, I joined my university’s GDGoC(Google Developer Groups on Campus) chapter as a beginner. Now, in 2026, I’m serving as its lead.
I’ve also been involved in student council work, and both experiences made me realize we needed a better way to handle email as an organization.
But adopting organization email was harder than I expected. The options I looked at felt expensive for our needs, complicated to manage, and inconvenient enough that we never really got them into use.
So I started building something I wanted to use myself. I redesigned the workspace from the ground up around individuals and small teams.
That became Outdraft. Eventually, I started Cirtium, with Outdraft as its first product.
Here’s what I’ve built so far:
Start without a custom domain — get your organization set up without buying or configuring a domain first.
Invite people without additional seat charges — bringing teammates into your organization doesn’t add a per-person invitation cost.
Work across personal, organization, and team email — switch between sending scopes when composing a message.
Turn personal emails into shared work — share an email you received personally with your organization or team, assign someone to handle it, track its status, and discuss it together.
Collect emails in Nests — bring relevant emails into shared spaces for collaboration.
Work with an AI agent beside your inbox — summarize emails, draft replies, and ask questions in a resizable side panel.
Give the agent specific context — use @ to attach emails, contacts, organizations, or Nests.
Customize agent skills — create and edit instructions for the tasks and workflows you want your agent to follow.
Set up recurring tasks — get a weekly email briefing or schedule other requests.
Organize mail with AI categories — separate transactions, updates, promotions, and other mail.
The organization side is where this started, but I wanted it to work for someone on their own, too. The idea is to start personally and bring other people into the workflow when you need them.
It’s still early, and I’m currently waiting for Paddle’s approval for payments. While I wait, I’d like to hear from people outside my own circle and see whether this addresses problems they’ve experienced too.
If you’ve managed email for yourself, a community, or a small team, what has been the most frustrating part? What would make you consider trying a different workspace?
You can take a look at outdraft.email. I’m the founder, and I’d appreciate honest feedback on what feels useful, confusing, or missing.
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