What Kora does Kora is the AI email client built by Kieran Klaassen and Brandon Gell. Its approach to inbox overload is aggressive: it removes 90% of your email from the inbox and instead briefs you twice a day, so you read the bottom line and focus only on what matters. The starting pain point was simple — nobody enjoys opening an inbox with 10,000 unread messages, and the result is dread, lost context, and wasted time. Built fast, launched fast Kora is also a story about how quickly AI products can now ship: a functioning V1 existed by the next morning, and the full product went from idea to launch in roughly three months, with a waitlist launch that went viral. The pivot: from drafts to briefs Kora didn't begin as a briefing tool. It started as an email assistant that generated drafts — a crowded category. The insight that changed it: it doesn't matter how well an LLM mimics your voice if it isn't in your brain, because about 50% of emails you need to respond to require context the model doesn't have. So Kora only drafts emails it can do a great job on. The deeper realization was that the real stress is managing the inbox, not responding — responding is the pleasurable part, because it means something is progressing. - Kora is an AI email client that archives 90% of email and briefs you twice a day. - A working V1 shipped in a day; the launched product took about three months. - It pivoted from generic drafting to drafting only emails the LLM can nail. - The core problem it targets is inbox management stress, not composing replies.