Because email shouldn't feel like a second job. We built the email client we always wanted - fast, intelligent, and respectful of your time.
Like millions of others, we were stuck with email clients built for a different era.
Spending 30+ minutes daily hunting for that one email from 3 weeks ago. Traditional keyword search just doesn't cut it in 2025.
Drowning in 200+ daily emails. Important messages buried under newsletters, promotions, and spam.
Constant interruptions from email notifications destroying deep work sessions. Every ping is a productivity killer.
I was a power user of Gmail for over a decade. But as a developer, I needed something different. I needed semantic search that understood context, not just keywords. I needed AI that actually saved time, not just auto-suggested three-word responses. I needed keyboard shortcuts for everything, because every mouse movement is wasted time.
Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail - they're all built for the average user. But developers, founders, and power users aren't average. We live in our inboxes. We needed something built for us.
Three core beliefs drive everything we build.
We're engineers who live in our inboxes. We built the email client we always wanted - fast, intelligent, and keyboard-driven.
Email is too important to be locked in proprietary silos. We believe in transparency, community contributions, and owning your data.
AI isn't a gimmick - it's a tool to save hours of manual work. We use it to summarize, search, and draft - not replace human communication.
VectorMail started as a frustration. A frustration with spending hours searching for emails. A frustration with missing important messages buried in noise. A frustration with email clients that felt like they were built in 2004 - because they were.
We asked ourselves: What if email understood you, instead of you having to understand it?
What if you could search by meaning, not keywords? What if AI could draft thoughtful responses, summarize 50-email threads instantly, and surface what actually matters? What if your inbox worked at the speed of thought, entirely from the keyboard?
That's VectorMail. Email built for how we actually work in 2025.
Built with Next.js 14, tRPC, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Enterprise architecture, open source.
Vector embeddings with pgvector. Semantic search with sub-50ms latency. Multi-provider AI fallback.
Zero-knowledge architecture. Your data stays yours. Open source means full transparency.
That's 600+ hours per year. VectorMail cuts this by 40-60%.
Yet email clients haven't fundamentally changed since 2004.
Smart filtering and AI summaries minimize context switching.
The email market is ripe for disruption. While every other productivity tool has been transformed by AI - from IDEs (GitHub Copilot) to writing (Notion AI) to design (Figma AI) - email clients remain stuck in the past.
Gmail hasn't fundamentally changed its search or organization in 15 years. Outlook is bloated with enterprise features nobody uses. Superhuman charges $30/month for keyboard shortcuts and basic AI. There's a massive gap for a truly intelligent, open-source email client.
VectorMail fills that gap. We're building for:
Modern problems require modern solutions. Here's what makes VectorMail different.
Search "flight booking" → only finds emails with those exact words
Search "flight booking" → finds confirmations, itineraries, check-in reminders, even if they never mention "booking"
"Thanks for reaching out!" - 3 word suggestions
Full draft responses understanding context, tone, and your writing style. 50-email thread summaries in 2 seconds.
VectorMail is just getting started. Here's what we're building next.
Native iOS & Android with offline-first architecture
Shared inboxes, @mentions, and real-time collaboration
Custom automations, integrations, and AI-powered routing
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