Austin Z. Henley

Associate Teaching Professor
Carnegie Mellon University


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We are starting a company to rethink email

9/15/2025

Our lives are anchored to our personal email accounts—every online service is linked to it. It has our receipts, coupons, reservations, newsletters, notifications, tickets, contacts, and more.

But email clients haven't changed in decades. We still sift through an ever-growing list of emails that generally have very low information density.

Why can't an app abstract away my emails and generate pages specific to me? I don't want an AI chatbot. I don't want search. I don't want labels or folders. I just want the right information at the right time in the right medium.

That is why we are building Khaki.