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Feature · Email

Built for everyone else.

Some of your team will never open Tyto. That's the point.

Tyto runs in the email they already use. Cc Tyto on any thread and the work happens anyway — new mails become tasks, replies become activity logs, attachments upload themselves, and guests stay in the loop without ever signing up.

How it works

Four ways email and Tyto talk.

Three inbound, one outbound. Together they let you never open Tyto in a day and still have everything done by Friday.

Inbound · 1

New email → new task.

Cc Tyto on a fresh thread. The subject becomes the task title. The body becomes the description. Attachments upload to the task. Everyone on the To/Cc line is added as a participant. The task lands in whatever project the recipients belong to.

Subject = task title. Body = description. Cc = participants.

Inbound · 2

Reply on an existing thread → log.

Once a task exists, every reply on the email thread is captured as an activity log on the task. People who haven't opened Tyto still see the conversation — and the people in Tyto see every reply, in context, without bouncing between tools.

Two-way visibility without two-way adoption.

Inbound · 3

@-mention Tyto → instruction.

Need to mark something done, reassign it, or change a due date? Include the instruction inline ("@tyto done", "@tyto reassign to Ravi", "@tyto due Friday"). Tyto picks it up and acts on it. Your reply doesn't have to be addressed to a robot — it can read like a normal email and still update the task.

Commands inside the email. No special app open.

Outbound

Email a project → add to it.

Every project has its own private email address. Forward a customer enquiry, BCC a quote, paste in a meeting note — and it lands in the project as a task or attachment. Forward-to-file, without filing.

Forward-to-file for the project. No drag-drop required.

Built for the people who don't want to learn it.

Most productivity apps demand adoption. Tyto trades that for participation — you adopt, they participate. Everyone wins.

The senior partner.

Twenty-five years in the firm. Checks email on a Blackberry from 2014. Will never log into another app. Tyto comes to him.

The long-time client.

You've worked together for eight years. They're not creating a new login for a project management tool. They just reply to the thread. Tyto files it.

The one-job contractor.

Hired for a fortnight to finish the kitchen. No onboarding flow. They email status, photos, and quotes. Everything lands in the project.

You, on the road.

Phone in one hand, coffee in the other. Reply to the thread from Gmail. The task gets a log entry. Sarah sees it five seconds later. You move on.

The fine print, made readable

All the bits you'd worry about.

Spam-safe by design.

Only emails from team members you've authorised in your settings can create or change tasks. A stranger emailing your project address gets ignored.

Attachments preserved.

Every file in the email — PDFs, photos, voice notes, anything — gets attached to the task automatically. No drag-and-drop step.

Threads keep their shape.

Replies thread under the right task. The subject line, the quoted history, the participants — Tyto tracks them so you don't end up with three "Re: Re: Re:" tasks for one conversation.

Guests stay in the loop, for free.

External collaborators — clients, contractors, freelancers — receive replies in their inbox without ever creating a Tyto account. They don't pay; they don't onboard; they just participate.

Start using Tyto. The rest of the team can stay in Gmail.

Thirty days free. No card. Bring whoever you like — including the ones who'd rather not.

Trusted by teams at…

Liberty
M2North
MIT-Group
Media Tomcat
Morrison Energy
OCU Group
Domaine des Dieux

Built over ten years — for teams that don't have time to pick the wrong tool.