Ctrl-Desk · The platform

You're buried in email.

And you can't escape it. Your business runs through it.

Yet the inbox you spend three hours a day in has no idea who any of these people are or what any of this means. So we rebuilt the inbox.

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The problem

Your inbox organizes by folder, sender, date. You organize by who you work with.

Every reply starts cold. The inbox doesn't know that the person emailing you is the same customer you closed a deal with last quarter, or that the vendor invoice and the new contract are from the same firm.

The filing tax never ends. You spend hours each week sorting and re-sorting threads. Tagging. Searching. Triaging. No one pays you for that work.

Three hours a day. Every day. Email is the most expensive part of your week — and the least leveraged. Until now.

The insight

The email client that knows your business.

Outlook is great at email. Gmail is great at email. Neither knows who you're emailing — your customers, your vendors, your team, the prospects who keep showing up. We rebuilt the inbox around them.

Threads roll up by counterparty automatically. One screen per customer, vendor, partner. Full history, every channel, every interaction.

AI drafts replies in your voice — primed by every prior interaction with that counterparty. You edit; you don't write from scratch.

Next-action recommendations surfaced inline. What this email actually needs done — not a pile of tasks in a separate tool no one opens.

Built once, tuned per industry

For the industries that run on email.

Ctrl-Desk is the platform. Each vertical is a purpose-built version of it — industry-specific integrations, terminology, and workflows. Same email engine underneath, tuned for the work you actually do.

Live Ctrl-RIA

Are you an RIA?

Try the purpose-built version for Registered Investment Advisors. Connected to your custodian, your CRM, your compliance archive. 17a-4-ready retention. Built for the way RIAs actually work.

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Coming soon Ctrl-Realtor

In real estate?

The version for real estate professionals. Listings, transactions, and the ten thousand emails a deal generates — organized by property and party, not by week.

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Coming soon Ctrl-Accountant

Run an accounting firm?

The version for accounting and tax practices. Client engagements, document workflows, deadline-driven work — handled like the structured process it actually is.

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Different industry? Tell us about it on the Request access form below. We pick the next vertical based on demand.

Under the hood

Built like infrastructure.

Email sync, a counterparty graph, local AI inference, and a compliance-grade retention core. The system underneath the inbox.

Email sync Gmail + Microsoft / Outlook, backfill + incremental delta, JMAP-shaped. Tested at 20K+ messages/mailbox.
Counterparty graph Per-tenant taxonomy. Joint accounts, multi-contact organizations, vendors with many people — recognized automatically.
AI classification & drafting Local inference (Qwen3.5-35B). Intent, counterparty type, next action. ~3s per email.
Compliance foundation Token encryption at rest. Append-only audit log. Per-vertical retention architecture (17a-4 for RIA today; the model extends to other regulated industries).
Operator tooling Full admin console. Tenant health, pipeline telemetry, replay-based iteration.

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