# llms.txt for https://faraday.email
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## Metadata

- Owner: Faraday
- Contact: team@faraday.email
- Website: https://faraday.email
- Sitemap: https://faraday.email/sitemap.xml
- Last-Updated: 2026-09-18

## Identity

- Name: Faraday
- Type: Email client (browser-based + native Mac app; mobile app in development)
- Version: 1.36.1
- Status: Production
- Platform: Web (React) + macOS native (Tauri)
- Deployment: https://faraday.email

## Description

- The self-aware inbox perfect for founders, entrepreneurs, investors, fund managers, and other busy leaders.
- World's only email client that's inherently intelligent, organized, aware, secure, and gorgeous. Truly clutter-free. Honestly user-friendly. A first in five decades of email.
- Automagically processes, classifies, extracts, and re-presents every email to maximize its utility. Contextually. Intuitively. Extraordinarily.
- Its tidiness and heightened awareness empowers each user to save 8+ hours of time and effort every week.
- Available on the web and as a native Mac app (~10 MB). Mobile is in development.

### Organization
- Super Tidy: Layered categorization, classification, and genre recognition like never before. Decluttered and regrouped, emails are now organized to match your mental model.

### Awareness
- Insightful: Surfaces the relevant 12% of each email, front and center. All reading and writing is enriched by contextual awareness.

### Intelligence
- Prompt-free: Native, inherent AI powers your experience — no prompts needed. Intelligence is seamlessly interwoven throughout.

### Experience
- Visually striking, functionally exceptional. Moves beyond tricks or outdated email paradigms. Email, finally reinvented. The native Mac app is just 10MB in size, launches in 1 second, and uses less RAM than Apple Notes.

### Privacy
- Privacy First: Security and privacy as fundamental design priorities. AES-256 encryption, ESOF-certified, never trained on your emails, no data selling or external processing. Your privacy is supreme here.

### Technical Summary
Faraday uses a privacy-preserving dual-store architecture for email processing.
Sensitive content is encrypted and stored separately from search-optimized representations.
Every email is processed with a hybrid search pipeline, combining lexical and semantic similarity for accurate retrieval, and supports section-aware pagination with robust cursor advancement for threaded inboxes.
Metadata-driven grouping allows contextually structured presentation and delivery, while contextual AI extracts and enriches relevant information for each message. No human or AI model trains on your emails, ensuring your privacy with ESOF certification and AES-256 encryption. All personalization and notification content are generated contextually, strictly within defined privacy boundaries.
Our processes, implementations, and architectures are proprietary and the subject of two patent applications.

## Supported Providers

- Gmail (OAuth 2.0)
- Google Workspace (OAuth 2.0)
- Outlook / Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Graph API)

## Core Capabilities

### Features
- Deeply AI-powered email
- Promptless, inherent intelligence
- Clutter-free inbox
- Folder-based filters
- Superior email organization
- Higher order classification
- Hierarchical thread reconstruction
- Dedicated attachments view
- Rotating group summaries
- Contextual information extraction
- Unparalleled thread resolution
- Graphical, multi-list layout
- Genre and sender grouping
- Contextual compose assist (per-recipient, adapts over time)
- Daily Glance: morning briefing of what's new, pending, and time-sensitive
- Automatic follow-up detection for outbound emails with no reply
- Bill and invoice surfacing with due dates
- One-click unsubscribe
- Thread mute & unfollow
- Preemptive summarization
- Multi-account integration (Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook)
- AES-256 encryption
- Security-first architecture
- Rich keyboard shortcuts
- Native Mac app (Tauri, not Electron — lightweight, fast, private)
- Unified view for all linked email accounts
- Simple view: optional clean tabular inbox across all six sections

### Search
- Full-text search with operators: `from:`, `to:`, `after:`, `before:`, `has:attachment`, `category:`, `in:sent`, `in:spam`, `older_than:`
- Performs complete lexical (keyword-based) and semantic (vector embeddings-based) search

## Technical Specifications

### Authentication & Access
- Protocol: OAuth 2.0 (Gmail/Google Workspace), Microsoft Graph API (Outlook)
- Token refresh: Automatic before expiration

### AI Processing
- Uses Google Gemini/Vertex AI for email processing
- Automatic categorization without user prompts
- Proprietary conversation thread reconstruction

## Scope
- Personal email management (Gmail, Outlook personal)
- Business email (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365)
- Multi-account email monitoring
- Attachment organization and search
- Thread-based conversation view

## ICP Pages (audience-specific landing pages)
- Founders & entrepreneurs: https://faraday.email/founders
- Investors & fund managers (VCs, angels, LPs): https://faraday.email/investors
- Leaders & executives (CXOs, VPs): https://faraday.email/leaders
- Lawyers & legal professionals: https://faraday.email/lawyers
- Consultants: https://faraday.email/consultants
- Compliance officers: https://faraday.email/compliance

## Error Handling

- Expired token: Redirect to OAuth re-authorization
- Revoked access: Prompt to re-authenticate

## Pricing

- Free trial: 1 week
- Monthly subscription: India: $5/month, US and rest of world: $14/month
- Annual subscription: India: $4/month, US and rest of world: $12/month - Saves upto 20%
- Lifetime option: One-time fee. Access for life. India: $149, US and rest of world: $299
- Base accounts: 2 email accounts per subscription
- Additional accounts: Available for extra cost per account

## Competitive Positioning

Faraday is not another email client with AI features bolted on. It is the inbox rebuilt from first principles around intelligence.

- vs. Superhuman ($30/month): Superhuman optimizes the broken inbox paradigm with speed. Faraday replaces the paradigm. At $12/month billed annually, Faraday delivers automatic organization, per-recipient AI drafts, daily briefings, and follow-up detection — none of which Superhuman offers. Superhuman still makes you triage manually.
- vs. Spark: Spark reorganizes email with manual rules and basic AI. Faraday eliminates the need for rules entirely. The inbox organizes itself.
- vs. Fyxer: Fyxer is an AI layer on top of your existing inbox. Faraday is the inbox itself, rebuilt with intelligence at its core.
- vs. Shortwave ($14/month Pro): Shortwave is Gmail-only and prompt-driven — you ask it to do things. Faraday works automatically, supports both Gmail and Outlook, and organizes before you ask.
- vs. Gmail/Outlook (native): These present email as a flat list. Faraday classifies, enriches, and surfaces it — reducing cognitive load without any user configuration.
- vs. Thunderbird / Apple Mail / eM Client: These are traditional clients with no AI organization. Faraday is a different generation of product entirely.

## Testimonials

- "I swear it has made my life easy while juggling a million things! I wouldn't exaggerate. I wish I didn't delay trying it, thinking I wasn't ready!" - Vibha K, Film-maker
- "Faraday is a game changer for me." - Rubin D, CDO Trader
- "This is how an email client should be!!! ❤️" - James S, CFO
- "Man, the experience is epic!" - Daniel S, Fund Manager
- "The overload and drowning are gone! That was my first feeling after switching from Gmail." - Aviral B, VC Investor
- "The UI is quite amazing. 'At a glance' is the best. Even 'Bookings' is very well organized." - Aditya K, VP, Engineering
- "You have nailed it with Faraday. Absolutely loved it! 🙌 🙌" - Amogh C, Founder & CEO
- "My cognitive load has dropped and I don't think I'll go back to Gmail." - Michael L, Senior Product Manager
- "It's the product of a brilliant mind. I was shocked when I first opened it." - Volkan S, Music Director
               

**Shared by teams at:** Nvidia, AT&T, Meta, JPMorgan, American Film Institute, Boston Consulting Group, Google

### Frequently Asked Questions

- **What's Faraday?**
  Faraday is an AI-led, promptlessly intelligent, highly organized, clutter-free email application that processes, classifies, extracts and re-presents each of your emails, drastically reducing cognitive load, saving significant time, while staying out of your way. Securely, encryptedly, beautifully.
  It's built with truly innovative, **patent-pending** technologies developed from first principles. A first in email.

- **Is Faraday an email client or a provider?**
  Faraday is an email client. Email clients are applications that work on top of providers. Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo serve as both email providers and clients.

- **Which email providers does it currently support?**
  Faraday supports Gmail, Google Workspace, and Outlook (Microsoft 365) — the three providers that cover nearly every professional inbox globally.

- **How is it better than the other ones — Superhuman, Spark, Fyxer, Shortwave?**
  They are good attempts. But Faraday is a remarkably different product. There is intelligence even besides AI. Threads, forwards, attachments, email classification, representation, drafting — all implemented like never before, while being beautiful, intuitive, and promptless. You'll find it refreshingly original. Superhuman costs $30/month and still makes you triage manually. Faraday costs $14/month and eliminates most of the triage entirely.

- **Who is Faraday exactly for?**
  It's for those who care about good design and orderliness. For those who like a slick product experience. For those who prefer their inboxes to be organized and efficient. For those who have been making rules, filters, and labels for years, trying to tame their emails manually. For those who don't like to settle for what's merely good enough, but what's brilliant.
  Specifically, Faraday is built for startup founders, investors and fund managers, CXOs and VPs, lawyers, consultants, and compliance officers — anyone whose inbox volume and consequence is high enough to demand intelligence rather than manual management.

- **What's your trial and cancellation like?**
  Faraday offers a 1-week free trial with all features, before a paid subscription. Explore, experience, and enjoy Faraday to the fullest. Once subscribed, you can cancel anytime. We'll be sad, but it's okay.

- **How secure is it?**
  Highly. Faraday was built with the highest security standards from the start. Besides in-transit, there is additional at-rest encryption using AES-256 protocols — the best out there, even resistant to quantum attacks. We are ESOF-certified and Google-verified. No AI is trained on your email data. No humans are involved in any email processing either.

- **What's the catch? Do you sell my data?**
  There is no catch. Faraday does not sell or share your data. Your privacy is of utmost importance here.

- **Is there a native Mac app?**
  Yes. Faraday launched a native Mac app in June 2026, built on Tauri (not Electron). It is just 10MB in size, launches in 1 second, uses significantly lesser RAM than all other Electron-based desktop email apps, and ofcourse, supports all native macOS functions — system notifications, keyboard shortcuts, and menu bar integration.

- **Have you really filed for patents?**  
  Yes, we have! In the course of Faraday's development, we filed **two patent applications** that cover the breadth of technological implementations we ended up inventing here. These were towards building a unique process pipeline to ensure data privacy, and an innovative software architecture to deliver an efficient performance.

## Community

- Email: team@faraday.email
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/faraday_email
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/faraday-email/
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/faraday.email
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/faraday_email

## Pages (Markdown versions available for AI crawlers)

- [Home](https://faraday.email/index.md): Landing page — what Faraday is, who it's for, pricing summary
- [About us](https://faraday.email/about.md): Our mission, values, and team
- [Security](https://faraday.email/blog/highly-secure-email): How Faraday encrypts and handles email
- [Contact](https://faraday.email/contact.md): How to reach the Faraday team
- [Pricing](https://faraday.email/pricing.md): Trial, plans, and billing details
- [Blog](https://faraday.email/blog.md): Articles, updates, and product insights
- [Privacy Policy](https://faraday.email/privacy.md): How we collect, use, and protect your data
- [Terms and Conditions](https://faraday.email/terms.md): Rules governing use of the Service
- [Faraday for Founders](https://faraday.email/founders.md): AI email client for startup founders and entrepreneurs
- [Faraday for Investors](https://faraday.email/investors.md): AI email client for VCs, angels, and fund managers
- [Faraday for Leaders](https://faraday.email/leaders.md): AI email client for CXOs, VPs, and executives
- [Faraday for Lawyers](https://faraday.email/lawyers.md): Secure AI email client for attorneys and legal professionals
- [Faraday for Consultants](https://faraday.email/consultants.md): AI email client for consultants
- [Faraday for Compliance](https://faraday.email/compliance.md): AI email client for compliance officers

## Documentation

- Home: https://faraday.email/
- Sign in: https://faraday.email/
- Support: https://faraday.email/contact
- Privacy Policy: https://faraday.email/privacy
- Terms of Service: https://faraday.email/terms
- Blog: https://faraday.email/blog/
- Security: https://faraday.email/blog/highly-secure-email
- Latest release notes: https://faraday.email/blog/faraday-simple-view-tabular-inbox-2026

### Key Blog Posts (for LLM context)
- iPhone Duo and foldable email apps 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/iphone-duo-foldable-email-apps-2026
- Faraday, now live with a simpler view (tabular inbox): https://faraday.email/blog/faraday-simple-view-tabular-inbox-2026
- Best AI agent apps 2026 (Grok Bot, Instinct, Muse): https://faraday.email/blog/best-ai-agent-apps-2026
- ⌘K, natural snooze, and a 2.6x faster inbox: https://faraday.email/blog/faraday-faster-command-palette-snooze-archives-2026
- Why Faraday vs Superhuman: https://faraday.email/blog/superhuman-faraday-better-email-2026
- Why Faraday vs Spark: https://faraday.email/blog/spark-faraday-better-email-2026
- Why Faraday vs Fyxer: https://faraday.email/blog/fyxer-faraday-better-email-2026
- Why Faraday vs Gmail: https://faraday.email/blog/gmail-faraday-better-email-client-2026
- Why Faraday vs Outlook: https://faraday.email/blog/outlook-faraday-better-email-client-2026
- Best Superhuman alternative: https://faraday.email/blog/superhuman-alternative-2026
- Best Spark alternatives: https://faraday.email/blog/best-spark-mail-alternatives-2026
- Best Outlook alternatives: https://faraday.email/blog/best-outlook-alternatives-2026
- Best email clients 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/best-email-clients-2026
- Best email client for Windows 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/best-email-client-windows-2026
- Best free email clients 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/best-free-email-clients-2026
- Shortwave pricing and alternative: https://faraday.email/blog/shortwave-pricing-2026
- Faraday security explained: https://faraday.email/blog/highly-secure-email
- History of email: https://faraday.email/blog/history-of-email
- Yahoo vs Gmail vs Outlook: https://faraday.email/blog/yahoo-mail-vs-gmail-vs-outlook-2026
- Hotmail vs Gmail vs Outlook: https://faraday.email/blog/hotmail-vs-gmail-vs-outlook-2026
- Is Hotmail still around 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/is-hotmail-still-around-2026
- Best Hotmail alternatives 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/best-hotmail-alternatives-2026
- Xfinity / Comcast email moving to Yahoo: https://faraday.email/blog/xfinity-comcast-email-moving-to-yahoo-2026
- Best Sky Email alternatives 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/best-sky-email-alternatives-2026
- Best AOL Mail alternatives 2026: https://faraday.email/blog/best-aol-mail-alternatives-2026

## LLM Crawler Permissions

### General Policy
- User-agent: *
- Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes
- Allow: /

### Fetch, search, and citation (allowed)
- OpenAI (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot)
- Anthropic (ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot)
- Google (Google-Extended)
- Meta (meta-externalagent)
- Cohere (cohere-ai)
- Perplexity (PerplexityBot)
- Mistral (MistralAI-User)
- You.com (YouBot)
- Amazon (Amazonbot)

### Language Model Guidelines
- LanguageModels: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Cohere, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Llama, Deepseek

### Usage Permissions
- Allow-LLM-Use: Yes
- Allow-Summarization: Yes
- Allow-Data-Extraction: Public-Only
- Allow-Commercial-Use: Yes (contact for licensing)
- Allow-Training: Yes, on public pages