Reimagining the email experience with AI

The shift to online work has roughly 1 billion professionals spending close to 3 hours managing email each day⁠(opens in a new window). This works out to around 1 trillion human hours a year spent on email.

Superhuman’s goal is to reduce the time spent managing inboxes. They’ve used OpenAI’s API⁠ to build a suite of next-gen AI email products that are saving users time, driving value, and increasing engagement.

The overflowing inbox

At any company, a large portion of the workforce (Superhuman estimates between 30–50%, across roles like finance, sales, and support) spend their days in and out of email, struggling with overflowing inboxes. It’s all too easy for emails to be overlooked, leading to delays, or worse, mishandled—leading to errors or even reputational damage. 

Superhuman got its start solving this problem with a popular product that offered an array of built-in email automations and integrated with common email services like Gmail and Outlook. Then came AI, which presented the opportunity to take the company’s vision to the next level and completely transform the email experience.

“Many of us write several novels worth of email per year. Between the time we spend, how much we read, and how much we write, email is the perfect place for AI to add massive value to peoples’ lives.”

Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman

Superhuman is making rapid progress on Superhuman AI, which is powered by OpenAI’s API. They’ve already launched a large number of GPT‑driven features like: 

From the start, partnering with OpenAI was a centerpiece of Superhuman’s AI roadmap, for several reasons:

Getting to inbox zero 2x faster

Superhuman’s rollout of Superhuman AI has met with tremendous success, seeing high user adoption rates and faster workflows:

Pressing “forward” on the future of email

“Superhuman and OpenAI are highly aligned in terms of where we want AI to go. We both believe that technology will increase the capacity for human achievement.”