A new way to handle your mail

Roguelike client
for email with
an AI companion

A mail client that reads every thread for you, ranks threads by the cost of leaving them unanswered, and drafts replies to suit each thread’s goal. All your mailboxes in one place.

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01( THE PRODUCT )

More than a quarter of the working week goes on mail

RLC opens on your threads, ranked by the cost of leaving them unanswered, next to a map of your inbox

01

A week on mail
reading and answering it. McKinsey Global Institute, 2012

02

Of the week on mail, search and internal communication
the three together. McKinsey Global Institute, 2012

03

Searching for information
of the working week. McKinsey Global Institute, 2012

04

Communicating internally
of the working week. McKinsey Global Institute, 2012

05

Emails a day
reach the average worker. Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025

06

Inbox checks a day
per worker, from activity logs. Mark et al., CHI 2016

The map on a phone

The same map on a phone, with the menu collapsed. The mail is from the demo.

Share of the working week spent on mail · McKinsey, 2012

28%

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02( FEATURES )

What RLC does for you

It works on every mailbox you add. You make the decisions. RLC does the groundwork.

Priority

Every thread ranked by the cost of leaving it unanswered

Tasks and deadlines

The tasks inside every thread, with their dates, in one list

Emails in a stack

A thread’s emails sit in a stack, newest on top; click to bring up the next

A voice per mailbox

Describe how you write from each mailbox, and its drafts follow that style

Ask your mail

A chat that answers from your email and shows the threads behind each answer

Replies that fit the goal

Up to three drafts written for the thread’s goal; pick one and edit it

A thread in the chat

Pick any thread with @ or the Ask button and ask about it

A new email

Describe it in one line, and RLC drafts the subject and body

03( THE MORNING )

Sorted by what to do next

Mail arrives all night, and it all looks the same. RLC reads every thread and sorts it into three piles: what to answer, what to do and what to skim. Each pile comes with what you need to close it.

/01

Answer

Threads waiting on your reply, ranked by the cost of leaving them unanswered, each with up to three drafts written for its goal.

/02

Do

Tasks and deadlines, already pulled out of the emails, so you don’t have to hunt for them.

/03

Skim

Newsletters, receipts and notifications, gathered into one digest you can read in one go.

/04

Close

Mark a thread done and it leaves both the map and the list, so the next morning starts with less to do.

04( A MORNING IN THE DEMO )

How RLC sorted the demo inbox

Every figure comes from the demo’s own mail. Six mailboxes, twenty-six emails, eighteen threads. RLC ranked every thread and decided what to do with it: ten need your reply, three need none, three went to the digest, and two are waiting on someone else. Open the demo and check for yourself.

Threads in the demo

18threads

Answer10threads
No reply needed3threads
Digest3threads
Waiting on others2threads
01

Emails
in six mailboxes

02

Tasks
found in the emails

03

Due within 36 hours
at the top of the list

04

In the digest
read in one pass

05

Mailboxes
in one list

06

Less to read
in the summaries than in the emails

Answer

The ten threads waiting on your reply, ranked by the cost of leaving them unanswered.

Not waiting on your reply

44%

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05( INSIDE A THREAD )

Every thread has a goal of its own

Sell, agree on terms, settle a question. Or book a meeting, support a customer, hire, or just take note. The goal shapes the replies RLC writes, and you can change it in the thread’s settings.

The thread

A thread opens on what matters: priority and deadline, whether you owe a reply, a summary, the scores and the tasks it contains.

Emails in a stack

A thread’s emails sit in a stack, newest on top. Click to bring up the next one, or expand the stack into a list.

Thread settings

If the assistant got it wrong, set the thread’s status, name, description, goal and scores by hand.

Reply from a draft

Pick a draft and it opens as your reply. Edit and send it, or ask for a rewrite: “shorter, and suggest Friday”.

A new email

Say what it’s about and RLC drafts the subject and body in the voice of the mailbox you’re sending from.

( CHATS )

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Ask your mail

/02

A question about a thread

The Ask button in a thread attaches it to the chat, and @ picks any thread by its subject. Below each answer are the threads it draws on.

/03

Chats are saved

Every conversation is saved under Chats: search for it and pick up where you left off.

⌘K01

A new chat
from anywhere in the client, or with the New chat button

@02

Attach a thread
picked by its subject, as many as the question needs

Sources03

Under every answer
the threads it draws on, with the key sentences highlighted

07( ENCRYPTION )

Your emails are stored encrypted

Without your key, nobody can read them from the database. Not even us. An email is readable only while it is being processed: the server and the assistant read it in memory, and then it is encrypted. If you turn on background processing (a separate switch on each mailbox), the server keeps that mailbox’s app password so it can fetch mail while you are offline.

An email arrives

From Gmail, Outlook, Yandex, iCloud, Mail.ru or any IMAP server

The assistant reads it

The server processes it in memory: priority, summary, tasks. The plain text is not stored

Encrypted with your key
  • Subjects
  • Texts
  • Chats
  • Attachments
Stored encrypted in the database

Without your key nobody can read it from the database, not even us

Left unencrypted
  • Dates
  • Scores
  • Statuses
  • Counters
Unlocked by you

With a passkey, backup password or recovery key

You create the key

In your browser

Your key
  • Under your key

    Your emails and everything derived from them: subjects, texts, recipients, summaries, tasks, thread goals, chats, attachments, search vectors. Without your passkey, backup password or recovery key they cannot be read from the database, not even by the service owner.

  • Only the bookkeeping is unencrypted

    Dates, priority scores, statuses and counters. Nothing else is stored unencrypted.

  • The key is yours

    It is made in your browser and unlocked with a passkey, a backup password or a recovery key. Lose all three and nobody can read the mail.

09( HOW IT WORKS )

From a full inbox to a sorted one

Nothing to install and no mailbox to move. Your emails stay with your provider. To rank and search them, RLC keeps an encrypted copy of the emails in your Inbox and Sent folders from the last 90 days, plus every new one after you connect, and passes their text to a language model.

/01

Connect

Sign in with your email, then add a mailbox with its address and an app password. The demo works without an account.

/02

Let it read

In the background, as the mail syncs, every thread is ranked, summarised and searched for tasks and deadlines.

/03

Work through threads

Set the thread’s goal, pick one of up to three replies written for it, edit and send. Then mark the thread done.

/04

Search and ask

Use the map, the digest and search by meaning across every mailbox you add. Ask your mail a question and get an answer, along with the threads it draws on.

10( PRICING )

Mailboxes are unlimited on every plan. You pay for how much the AI reads

Free

$0

300 emails a month read by the AI

Any number of mailboxes

Gmail, Yandex, Mail.ru, Outlook, iCloud or any server with IMAP and SMTP, in one list.

300 emails a month

Ranked, summarised and searched for tasks by the AI. Emails beyond that arrive as usual, without AI processing, at no charge.

All the essentials

Priority, summaries, tasks, the map, the digest and up to three replies written for the thread’s goal.

Start today

Sign in with email or GitHub now; Yandex ID, VK ID and Google sign-in are being added. The demo works without an account.

Pro

$12

a month, or $120 a year

3,000 emails a month

Read by the AI. Emails beyond that arrive as usual, without AI processing, at no charge.

Any number of mailboxes

As on every plan.

Everything in Free

Priority, summaries, tasks, the map, the digest and replies written for the thread’s goal.

$120 for twelve months

Twelve months at the price of ten: $120 rather than $144.

Team

$15

a member a month, or $150 a year

Three members minimum

Priced per member, with a minimum of three.

3,000 emails per member

Per month, pooled across the whole team. Emails beyond the pool arrive without AI processing, at no extra charge.

Shared goals and an administrator

Thread goals the whole team works towards, and an administrator who manages members.

$150 a member for twelve months

Twelve months at the price of ten: $150 rather than $180.

Enterprise

On request

installed on your servers

On your own servers

RLC installed in your infrastructure, working entirely inside a closed perimeter.

Your own language models

Open models served with vLLM, inside your perimeter.

A licence to suit

A subscription or a perpetual licence, with implementation and support. Terms are set out in the contract.

11( FOR COMPANIES )

Enterprise

RLC inside your company’s perimeter. For companies whose mail must not leave their own infrastructure: the same client, installed on your servers, working entirely inside a closed perimeter and processing mail with a model you host. Nothing to migrate; licence terms are set out in the contract.

( THE SAME CLIENT )

The client on this page, installed on your servers

On-premises
Your servers, Docker and Kubernetes
Closed perimeter
Nothing leaves it
Your own models
Open models through vLLM
Your mail
IMAP, SMTP and Exchange
Licence
Subscription or perpetual
Implementation and support
Setup, support, updates
12( QUESTIONS )

Before you connect anything

No. RLC connects to the mailbox you already have over IMAP and SMTP, and there is no forwarding to set up. Your emails stay with your provider. To rank and search them, RLC keeps an encrypted copy of the emails in Inbox and Sent from the last 90 days, plus every new one after you connect.

13( START )

Ready for a different morning?

Connect the mailbox you already have. At mail.rlc.rocks, sign in with email or GitHub; Yandex ID, VK ID and Google sign-in are being added. The demo works without an account.