Read AI is rolling out Ada, an email-based digital twin that handles scheduling requests and answers questions on your behalf. The AI assistant can check your calendar availability, respond to meeting invites, and pull information from company knowledge bases and the web - all through email. It's the latest move in the race to build AI agents that can actually take action instead of just answering questions.
Read AI is making its biggest product bet yet. The company known for AI-powered meeting notes is launching Ada, an email-based digital twin designed to handle two things that eat up everyone's workday - scheduling back-and-forth and hunting down answers to repetitive questions.
Ada works directly through email, no new interface required. When someone emails asking about your availability, Ada can check your calendar and reply with open slots. When colleagues need information buried in company docs or want quick research from the web, Ada pulls the answer and sends it back. According to TechCrunch, the system can tap both internal knowledge bases and public web sources.
The timing isn't random. Every major productivity player is racing to ship AI agents that don't just chat but actually do things. Microsoft embedded Copilot across Office. Google is pushing Workspace AI hard. Notion added AI that writes and searches. But most of these tools still require you to prompt them, to think about using them. Ada flips that - it sits on your email and jumps in when needed.
Read AI built its reputation on meeting intelligence, using AI to transcribe calls, pull action items, and generate summaries. The company has raised funding to expand beyond just capturing what happened in meetings to actually helping with what comes next. Ada is that next step, moving from passive documentation to active assistance.
The digital twin concept has been floating around AI circles for months, but practical implementations have been thin. Most people don't want another app to check or dashboard to manage. Email, for better or worse, remains where work actually happens. By plugging Ada directly into email workflows, Read AI is betting on ambient AI - technology that works in the background without demanding attention.
