Your own mailbox for everything Vera writes

For most of the last year Vera would end an analysis by handing you a draft. A counter to a vendor, a note forwarding a benchmark to your CFO, a request for a redline. That was useful, but the draft had nowhere to go. You copied it out, pasted it into Outlook, hunted for the attachment, and the connection between the number and the message you sent about the number was lost the moment you hit send. The correspondence lived in one system and the evidence lived in another. This update closes that gap. Mail is a correspondence desk of your own, with an inbox, sent, drafts and trash for every email the platform drafts for you. It builds on the What Next desk, where every analysis already ends with the emails drafted, and it gives those drafts a home. You can see it at /mail.

The problem: email archaeology

Ask any procurement lead where the last twelve months of a vendor conversation lives and you will get a shrug and a search box. Some of it is in a shared drive, some in a personal inbox, some forwarded to a colleague who has since left. When a renewal comes round you spend the first hour reconstructing what was actually said and agreed, because the paper trail is scattered across tools that were never designed to talk to each other. The message you sent about a benchmark sits in one place, the benchmark itself in another, and matching them up is manual. This is email archaeology, and it is a tax you pay on every deal that runs longer than a quarter.

Mail removes that tax by keeping the correspondence next to the work. When Vera drafts a note off a benchmark, off a contract decode, off a negotiation move, the draft lands in your inbox already attached to the thing it is about. Nothing to copy. Nothing to re-find later.

What Mail actually gives you

Start with the address book. Write to someone once and they are there the next time, ready to drop into To, Cc or Bcc. No re-typing the CFO's address, no guessing whether the vendor's account manager still uses the old alias. Then set your defaults once: your signature, the tone you want Vera to write in, and how long a first draft should run. Every new email starts from those settings, so the draft you open already sounds like you and is already the right length, rather than a wall of text you have to trim.

Attachments work the way they should. Attach a contract straight from your workspace, or a file from your computer, and the recipient can actually open it. That last part matters. A benchmark you forward to your CFO is only persuasive if the CFO can read the number, and a redline you send back to a vendor is only useful if their legal team can open the document. This connects naturally to decoding any contract in a minute, because the decode and the file you send about it now travel together.

Analyze a response before you reply

The feature buyers will use most is the one that reads the other side's email for you. Paste an email you received, press Analyze a response, and Vera reads what it really says before drafting your reply. Not the surface courtesy, but the actual position: the concession that is being framed as a favour, the deadline that was invented to rush you, the clause the vendor is quietly holding firm on. This is the same instinct behind the ghost writer, which forwards the vendor email and returns the counter in your voice, now available inside the mailbox itself. It sits alongside the ten inbox agents that answer questions with a white paper, so the whole email surface is now analyst-grade rather than a blank box.

It is your mailbox, not the team's

This is the point we want buyers to be certain about, because it changes how you use the tool. Mail is private by default. The drafts you write, the replies you analyse, the notes you send to your CFO, none of it enters the shared record automatically. Only filing a chain into a renewal puts it in the shared deal record, and that is a deliberate action you take, not a side effect of writing an email. A blind copy is never shared with a renewal. If you Bcc someone, that stays between you and them, exactly as Bcc should behave, even after you file the rest of the chain.

That separation lets you draft freely. You can rehearse a hard reply, keep three versions in your drafts, and send the one you mean, without a half-formed position leaking into the shared deal room where an approver might read it as final. When the conversation matters to the deal, you file it, and it joins the record that feeds the sign-off chain and the brief every approver reads. The line between private working and the shared record is now a decision, not an accident.

The honest limits

Mail is a correspondence desk, not a full email client, and we would rather you knew where the edges are. It is built for the emails the platform helps you write and analyse, the vendor and stakeholder correspondence around a deal. It is not your general inbox, and it is not trying to replace the mail system your company runs. You will still live in Outlook or Gmail for everything outside procurement, and that is by design.

Second, Analyze a response reads what is in front of it. If a vendor makes a commitment on a call and never writes it down, Mail cannot analyse a sentence that was never sent. The tool sharpens the written record, it does not conjure the unwritten one. Third, filing is a manual step on purpose. That means a chain you never file will not appear in the shared deal record, so if a colleague needs to see a conversation, you have to file it. We chose that friction over the alternative, where private drafts leak into the shared view by default. As with everything here, the rules we hold the AI to are set out in what we will not let the AI do on your deals. Vera drafts, analyses and files where you tell it to. It does not send on your behalf, and it does not decide for you what belongs in the shared record. You do.