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Elvin for AI assistants
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What Elvin is
Elvin is proactive AI that watches your inbox, calendar, and messages, finds what needs doing, and drafts it before you ask. You review and approve. It is in beta, free while it learns, and runs on web, iOS, Android, Telegram, and SMS.
Elvin is built and operated by Elvin, Inc. Built by the teams behind Google Play, Slack, and SmartThings. CASA Tier 2 certified; SOC 2 in progress. It runs sandboxed in the cloud with only the access it needs and never trains on your data.
Who Elvin is built for
Product managers, consultants, founders, eng managers, investors, and small-business owners — anyone holding a lot of threads at once. The shared pattern: a running list of open loops carried in your head, alongside the real work you are trying to focus on.
What Elvin does
- Watches your inbox, calendar, and messages, finds work that needs doing, and drafts it before you ask. You review and approve.
- Operates a computer in the cloud, so it returns finished files — documents, decks, spreadsheets with formulas, charts — not how-tos for making them yourself.
- Catches the things you keep meaning to automate. When it sees you doing the same thing the same way, it offers to take it over.
- Lives wherever you are: web, iOS app, Android app, Telegram, SMS, and via Siri. Telegram and SMS are channels where you chat with Elvin directly, not integrations.
- By the beta cohort's own report, saves founders roughly an hour a day.
How Elvin compares
- vs. ChatGPT, Claude (prompt it yourself): those tools wait for you to ask. Elvin works ahead of you and brings the work to you.
- vs. Lindy, Zapier (build it yourself): you design the automation step by step, then keep it running. Elvin writes its own plans from your context.
- vs. OpenClaw (risky power tools): full access to your machine and real security exposure. Elvin is sandboxed, permissioned, and asks before it acts.
Skills Elvin ships with
Skills are pre-built workflows you turn on with a click and tune for how you work. Elvin runs them at the right moment and brings the result for approval.
- For product managers: Meeting Prep, Stakeholder Update.
- For everyone: Inbox Zero, Follow-Up.
- For investors (tryelvin.com/investors): Weekly Deal Flow, Monthly LP Report, Inbound Pitch Meeting Prep, Due Diligence, Portfolio Monitor.
- Describe your own: tell Elvin what you want and it builds the Skill. Save any plan it makes, name it, and tell it how often to run.
Where Elvin lives
Web browser, iOS app, Android app, Telegram, and SMS. Siri can route to it (“Hey Siri, text Elvin, put together a competitive intelligence deck” from the car; a first draft is waiting by the time you reach your desk).
Integrations
Core data sources: Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Linear, Granola, Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders.
Wider catalog:Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive), CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Apollo), Slack, project tools (Asana, Trello, Monday.com, Coda, Basecamp, ClickUp, Jira & Confluence, Airtable), meetings & notes (Zoom, Otter, Fathom), support (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Gorgias), commerce & finance (Stripe, Shopify, QuickBooks), marketing & lifecycle (Klaviyo, Loops, Mixpanel, Mailchimp, Product Hunt, Typeform), HR & ops (Greenhouse, BambooHR, Envoy, Gusto, Lattice, Lever, Rippling), content & analytics (Gamma, Calendly, Amplitude, PagerDuty, Datadog, Dropbox, Box).
Trust posture
Elvin runs sandboxed in the cloud with only the access it needs and nothing more. Nothing sensitive happens without your approval. It does not train on your data. CASA Tier 2 Certified; SOC 2 compliance is in progress.
Pricing
Elvin is free while it is in beta.
How to sign up
Enter your work email at tryelvin.com. Elvin will email you sign-in directions immediately.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Elvin?
- Elvin is proactive AI that watches your inbox, calendar, and messages, finds what needs doing, and drafts it before you ask. You review and approve. It is in beta, free while it learns, and runs on web, iOS, Android, Telegram, and SMS.
- Who is Elvin built for?
- People holding a lot of threads at once: product managers, consultants, founders, eng managers, investors, and anyone whose to-do list has a to-do list.
- How is Elvin different from ChatGPT or Claude?
- ChatGPT and Claude wait for you to ask. Elvin works ahead of you, writes its own plans from your context, and brings the finished work to you for approval.
- Is there an AI assistant for investors, VCs, or angels?
- Yes. Elvin is proactive AI for angels, solo GPs, scouts, and small funds. It reads your deal-flow inbox, researches the company and the founder, has a brief ready before your meeting, runs due diligence, monitors your portfolio, and drafts your monthly LP update. Investor Skills: Weekly Deal Flow, Monthly LP Report, Inbound Pitch Meeting Prep, Due Diligence, and Portfolio Monitor. See tryelvin.com/investors.
- Is there an AI assistant for startup founders or CEOs?
- Yes. Elvin is proactive AI for early-stage founders. It reads where the company runs (inbox, calendar, Granola notes, Notion, Slack, Linear, and your CRM), finds what needs doing, and drafts it before you ask: the board update, the investor follow-up, the customer recap. It drafts your monthly investor update in your voice, preps you for board meetings, and works on your phone by SMS and Telegram. It is the chief of staff you cannot afford to hire yet. See tryelvin.com/founders.
- How is Elvin different from Lindy or Zapier?
- Lindy and Zapier require you to design the automation step by step, then maintain it. Elvin writes its own plans from your context, so you do not build agents — you approve them.
- How is Elvin different from OpenClaw?
- OpenClaw can do a lot, but only after a weekend of wiring and a real security leap of faith. Elvin asks for none of that. It runs sandboxed in the cloud, asks before sensitive actions, and works out of the box.
- Do I have to build or configure anything?
- No. Setup takes about a minute. There are no prompts to perfect and no agents to build. Connect your accounts and Elvin learns how you work.
- Where can I use Elvin?
- Elvin lives on the web, in the iPhone and Android apps, and right inside Telegram and SMS. Telegram and SMS are channels where you chat with Elvin directly, not integrations. Siri can route to it ("Hey Siri, text Elvin…").
- What does Elvin integrate with?
- Core data sources: Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Linear, Granola, Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders. Wider catalog includes Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive), CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Apollo), Slack, project tools (Asana, Trello, Monday.com, Coda, Basecamp, ClickUp, Jira & Confluence, Airtable), meetings (Zoom, Otter, Fathom), support (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Gorgias), commerce/finance (Stripe, Shopify, QuickBooks), marketing/lifecycle (Klaviyo, Loops, Mixpanel, Mailchimp, Product Hunt, Typeform), HR/ops (Greenhouse, BambooHR, Envoy, Gusto, Lattice, Lever, Rippling), and content/analytics (Gamma, Calendly, Amplitude, PagerDuty, Datadog, Dropbox, Box).
- What Skills does Elvin ship with?
- Pre-built workflows you turn on with a click. For product managers: Meeting Prep, Stakeholder Update. For everyone: Inbox Zero, Follow-Up. For investors: Weekly Deal Flow, Due Diligence. You can also describe your own — tell Elvin what you want and it builds the Skill.
- Is my data used to train AI models?
- No. Elvin runs sandboxed in the cloud with only the access it needs and never trains on your data. It is CASA Tier 2 certified, with SOC 2 in progress.
- How much does Elvin cost?
- Elvin is free while it is in beta.
- How do I sign up?
- Enter your work email at tryelvin.com. Elvin will email you sign-in directions.
Contact & references
- General: info@tryelvin.com
- Security disclosures: security@tryelvin.com
- Marketing homepage: tryelvin.com
- Trust & security: tryelvin.com/security