Avec’s latest AI feature reads your email so you don’t miss the due date

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Avec has added a feature that scans an email for a deadline when you swipe left, then resurfaces the message on the relevant day. The $8.4mn startup has published no detail on where that scanning happens.

An email app called Avec now reads your messages to find out when things are due. Swipe left on anything you cannot deal with, and it extracts the deadline and brings the message back on the day it matters.

The company is four months into public life. Avec launched in April with $8.4mn from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Haystack, built by Jonathan Unikowski, previously a product engineer at Replit.

The claim attached to the feature is unusually confident. Unikowski says the team was not sure it could extract due dates reliably and that it now works every time, which is a founder’s assessment rather than a tested one.

What the company has not described...

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