Startup Quickly – Supercharging Your Email

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Based on the context of your email, Quickly suggests a single action or a series of actions that you can take. Quickly will “learn” from your choices to give you a better user experience. Bellow is our recent interview with Utkarsh Apoorva, CEO and co-founder of Quickly:

Q: What is Quickly and how does it work?

A: Quickly is a predictive tool that converts emails to business actions and allows the user to perform those actions in one click. Think about an email you receive from your boss about a task that needs to be done. Lets say you are an Evernote user and need to add this information to Evernote. Quickly can correctly guess, and in one click, add it to your evernote. No need to open a new window, log in, and then copy-paste.

Additionally, Quickly keeps learning from your approvals and changes to the suggested action. So gradually, it becomes like a personal assistant to handle your emails and indeed a lot of related work.

Q: Who do you see as your principle target audience?

A: People who use multiple applications and receive tons of emails. Specifically, this translates into project managers, consultants, sales executives and customer support executives.

Q: How difficult was it technically to build the Quickly?

A: Quickly is a predictive integration tool. It was just as difficult to develop as any other not-too-complex AI driven application.

Q: What is your main goal at the moment? When do you plan to launch it?

A: We are in closed beta and the tool is being tested by a very small group of people. We intend to keep improving the database to be able to make wider and deeper predictions. The public beta will be launched in a few months.

Q: Do you have any new features in the pipeline?

A: The key feature that Quickly has is to be able to guess your actions properly. We need more data to improve the predictive ability.

However, there are some pretty cool features in the pipeline that can substantially improve the email experience of most people. We will announce them shortly.