How it works
Email in, organized work out
Ellis reads the correspondence you already have and turns it into something you can actually work from. Below: real mail on the left, what Ellis builds from it on the right. Nothing is invented — if the email doesn't say it, Ellis doesn't show it.
It finds the work on its own
No folders, no tagging, no manual entry. Ellis reads across every thread at once, so it can tell a client from a vendor even when they've never appeared in the same conversation.
A new enquiry becomes a tracked job
The category is inferred from who's involved — caterers and DJs read as an event; a lender and title company read as a property closing instead.
And keeps track of what's still missing
This tracks what was asked for — separately from whether anyone in that category has actually replied yet.
Every number, without a spreadsheet
Quantities, totals, deposits, balances and due dates — pulled from whatever the vendor actually wrote, and totalled for you.
A quote becomes a line item
Six threads become one budget
A figure Ellis had to infer rather than read directly is flagged as unconfirmed — never quietly presented as fact.
The day assembles itself
Times mentioned in passing across different threads become one schedule you can hand to anyone.
Scattered times become a run of show
A vendor who gives only a start time gets a block marked approximate — Ellis won't invent an end time to make the chart look tidy.
Nothing falls through the cracks
Four things that all look like a to-do but aren't: an open commitment, a piece of paperwork, a settled decision, and a sign-off that's stuck.
Paperwork status, read from how people write
| Item | Status | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| Venue contract | Missing | Venue |
| Bartender COI | In review | Derek Osei |
| Catering contract | Complete | Both |
“Submitted, awaiting approval” reads as in review. “Still haven't received” reads as missing. The phrasing is the signal.
What was actually agreed — not what was floated
The second message produces nothing. An open question isn't a decision until somebody agrees to it.
Who's signed, and who everyone's waiting on
Built for property closings, too
When Ellis sees a lender, a title company and closing-shaped dates, it switches to the views a transaction actually needs.
Contingency dates become a countdown
And catches numbers that moved
| Line | Estimate | Disclosure | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lender fee | $1,100 | $1,250 | +$150 |
| Title insurance | $2,600 | $2,900 | +$300 |
| Purchase price | $415,000 | $415,000 | — |
The kind of drift that's easy to miss reading two PDFs a month apart — and expensive when you do.
It notices things going quiet
Ellis flags patterns, not feelings — message counts, elapsed days, approaching dates. It will never tell you someone sounds annoyed.
Silence is the signal
Or going in circles
A lot of motion and no resolution is a measurable pattern — and usually the thing worth a phone call instead of another email.
Ask it anything about your work
Everything Ellis has read is searchable in plain language — and every answer shows you where it came from.
A question, answered from your own mail
If there's genuinely no answer in your mail, it says “I don't have that” rather than filling the gap with something plausible.
Every fact traces back to a real email
Links straight through to the original in Gmail or Outlook. Ellis reads your mail; it never replaces your mail app.
It reads your inbox. That's all it needs.
Connect Gmail or Outlook, read-only. Nothing is sent, deleted or modified — Ellis only ever reads.
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