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Flowrite is an AI-powered personal writing assistant that adapts to your personal style to create ready-to-send emails, messages, and more.
A. The Problem and The Pitch
How do you communicate at work? Do you use Loom?
Or do you find yourself writing a lot of emails, Slack messages, and texts? ๐จย ๐ซ
The ability to write effectively is essential for professionals, especially knowledge workers. Although keyboards have become our primary enablers of communication, the craft of writing has remained fundamentally the same for decades. You:
๐กย Think about what you want to say
๐๏ธย Plan how you're going to say it, and thenโฆ
โจ๏ธ Type it out letter-by-letter
What if you had a personal assistant to help you draft messages basis your inputs? ๐ฎ
You could save a significant part of the 2.5+ hours a day spent on reading and answering emails. (Source: HBR) This will surely empower you to be more productive in your everyday work.
๐ช Enter Flowrite ๐ช
A writing tool that turns your thoughts to text faster than ever. In practice, you instruct Flowrite with a couple of bullets, select a template to guide the AI, and then watch it generate a ready-to-send email or a message for you โ powered by GPT-3 ๐
It is an AI-powered personal writing assistant that adapts to your personal style to create ready-to-send emails, messages, and more. Here are the three steps:
Step 1: ๐ย Write your inputs in the form of short bullet points
Step 2: โ ย Choose the type of message you want to write (e.g., request for an introduction, reminder, project update, influencer outreach, etc.)
Step 3: ๐๏ธย Sit back & relax as Flowrite converts your short bullet points to a ready-to-send email
You can currently use their beta both in a web app as well as on Gmail with the Chrome extension.
B. What's special?
๐คฏย Generate drafts in one click: Using Flowrite's wide range of templates, you can convert your bullet points into a full-fledged response to a mail. And Flowrite also takes the previous conversation and context into account while 'writing' the response for you. You can then choose to edit the message as you like.
๐๏ธย Personalized tone and length: You can set your own tone, templates, and length of content to make the message sound more like you. And it also takes care of the formatting, spelling, and grammar!
๐ชย Adaptive: You can share feedback for every generation to improve Flowrite and tailor it to your needs. In about 2 clicks!
๐ย Just getting started: Today, Flowrite is browser-based and integrates with web email. It only works in Chrome and Gmail but they're planning to expand integrations โ such as for messaging apps like Slack. (Source)
C. What's more?
๐คย Flowrite limitations: Available only in English at the moment
๐ย Ideal use-cases: "Typically replies where thereโs some kind of existing context that you are responding to. And also for outreaches โ things like pitches and proposals" (Source)
๐คย Other GPT-3 tools:
๐งย Here are a few other email productivity tools:
๐ย Why now? The release of the GPT-3 AI in June 2020 made this possible.
The idea for Flowrite came when the duo discovered the capabilities ofย OpenAIโs generative language model GPT-3, which enabled them to start to build a writing tool that they had always wanted for themselves. One that would generate a complete email, message, or post instead of just helping make your own writing better.
He (Aaro, CEO of Flowrite) further mentions that โBuilding a product like Flowrite before powerful language models existed would have been extremely time- and resource-intensive. When GPT-3 was launched, we felt that we could use it as the backbone of the product while also building our proprietary technology on top of it. (Source: The Hustle Story)
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