What Is Cora AI? Every's $20 Email Chief of Staff
Cora is an email agent from Every, and its central idea is that you shouldn’t be looking at your inbox at all. Instead of a list of messages, you get a brief twice a day: everything that didn’t need you, summarized. The handful of things that do need you come with a draft already written in your voice.
Every’s own line for it is that Cora is the $150,000 chief of staff that costs $20 a month. The pitch has landed with a notably credible set of users, including Instagram co-founder and Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger, who described hitting inbox zero with a brief to read instead.
How Cora works
The mechanic is a triage-and-summarize loop rather than an assistant you instruct:
- Twice-daily briefs. Low-priority mail gets categorized and summarized into a digest. You read the digest, not the messages.
- Drafts for what matters. Anything genuinely needing a reply surfaces with a draft in your writing style.
- Inbox as a feed. The design goal is that your inbox empties itself and you consume a short document instead.
That’s the whole product, and the tightness is the point. Cora isn’t trying to be a calendar tool, a task manager, or an agent platform.
What Cora costs
$20/month, as stated on cora.computer, with a free trial. Note that the pricing detail beyond that headline sits behind a sign-in, so if you need tier specifics or team pricing you’ll have to start the trial or ask Every directly. Sign-in is via Google or an Every account.
For context, that puts Cora at the cheap end of this category, below alfred_ at $24.99 and Slashy at $25 a seat.
The one thing Cora won’t do
Cora never sends. Every reply waits in drafts for you.
This is a deliberate product decision and Cora is upfront about it, but you should be clear-eyed about what it means. The twice-daily rhythm plus draft-only sending is a specific bet: that most email doesn’t need a fast answer, and that you’d rather batch it. If your world agrees with that bet, Cora is elegant. If people expect replies from you inside the hour, the cadence works against you and you’ll end up checking mail between briefs, which defeats the purpose.
The second boundary is scope. Cora is email-only. No calendar, no CRM, no tasks in other systems. Anything that follows from a reply is yours to carry.
Worth naming a third thing, because it affects value for money: a good chunk of triage is rule-based work, sorting and labelling by sender or type, that doesn’t need a model at all. On some tools that layer runs free.
If the batching suits you but you want the replies actually sent and the follow-on work done, that’s a different shape of tool. Carly sends, schedules, and updates your other systems rather than leaving drafts, across 200+ native integrations, on Gmail and full Outlook / Microsoft 365. Rule-based steps run free; AI agents from $35/month.
Who Cora suits
A genuinely good fit if you’re a founder, writer, or investor whose email is mostly asynchronous, you want the volume to stop being visible, and you’re happy being the one who presses send. At $20 it’s the least expensive credible option in the category, and the brief format is the most original idea in it.
A poor fit if your role demands fast replies, if you need Outlook rather than Google sign-in, if you want calendar and task coverage in the same tool, or if you want an assistant that finishes things rather than prepares them.
For the wider field, see Cora alternatives, or the head-to-heads with Fyxer, SaneBox, Shortwave, and Superhuman.
FAQ
What is Cora AI?
An email agent built by Every. It summarizes your low-priority mail into briefs delivered twice a day and drafts replies in your voice for the messages that actually need you.
How much does Cora cost?
$20 per month, with a free trial. Further pricing detail sits behind a sign-in on cora.computer, so ask Every directly for team or tier specifics.
Does Cora send emails for me?
No. Cora writes drafts and you send them. It never sends on its own, by design.
How often does Cora deliver briefs?
Twice a day. That cadence is central to the product, and it’s the main thing to test against your own response-time expectations during the trial.
Does Cora work with Outlook?
Cora signs you in with Google or an Every account. If Outlook or Microsoft 365 is your requirement, confirm current support with Every before starting.
Who makes Cora?
Every, the media and software company. Cora is its email agent product, at cora.computer.
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