Ellie
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Ellie crafts personalized email replies in your style, saving you time while respecting your privacy.
What is Ellie?
Ellie is an AI email assistant designed to learn from the user's writing style and craft replies as if they were written by the user. It can generate professional, bespoke emails in the user's style, saving time on email responses. Ellie understands email context and can create intelligent replies with a personal touch. Users can teach Ellie new information by providing documents or URLs for it to learn from. Ellie respects user privacy and only uses email replies to generate responses without storing the email data.
Who created Ellie?
Ellie was created by Danielle and James, two nomad developers traveling the world on a small sailboat. They are independent developers with no external funding, emphasizing privacy and ethical data use. Danielle and James have built Ellie as an AI email assistant to automate email replies and save time. The AI tool, Ellie, provides various features for efficiently managing email responses and customizes replies based on the user's writing style.
What is Ellie used for?
- Automating email replies
- Overcoming reply anxiety
- Tool for individuals with dyslexia or for improving language & grammar skills
- Automating replies to automated emails
- Assisting with dyslexia or language & grammar skills
- For small teams who live in their inboxes sending many emails a day
- For large teams and enterprise sending hundreds of emails a day
- For people who are overwhelmed with emails and need help
- Automated email replies for small teams sending many emails a day
- Email AI model customization
- Email training to learn how to write emails in the user's style
- Knowledge base training to provide more relevant replies
- Assigning different roles to Ellie based on email type
- Integration into team workflows
- Providing one-on-one support
- Assistance with email reply anxiety
- Aiding with dyslexia or language & grammar skills
- Automation of replies to automated emails
- To generate replies to emails
- Smart email crafting with an intelligent AI model
- Providing email training based on previous sent emails
- Knowledge base training for crafting replies
- Assigning different roles based on the type of email being replied to
- Team sharing of training material and roles within the team
- Providing email support for customers
Who is Ellie for?
- Large teams
- Enterprise
- Large teams and enterprise sending hundreds of emails a day
- Small teams who live in their inboxes sending many emails a day
- Large teams and enterprises sending hundreds of emails a day
- People overwhelmed with emails
- Small Business Owners
- Customer Support Specialists
- Teams and enterprises
- Small Teams
- Business professionals
How to use Ellie?
To effectively use Ellie, follow these steps:
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Choose Your Plan:
- Select the plan that suits your team's needs, whether it's for small, professional, or enterprise-level teams.
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Initial Setup:
- After payment, receive a license key for activating the browser extension.
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Browser Compatibility:
- Ellie is available as a Chrome or Firefox extension, ensuring seamless integration into your workflow.
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Email Client Compatibility:
- Currently fully supported for Gmail and Fastmail, with a toolbar popup available for generating replies in other clients. Full support for other web-based clients is in the pipeline.
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Training Ellie:
- Provide up to 1000 previous sent emails for Ellie to learn your style and train its AI model. With Advanced Training, you can teach Ellie specific information to enhance its responses.
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Roles Feature:
- Assign different roles to Ellie based on email types. For example, assign Ellie a Customer Support Role to access specific documentation.
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Team Sharing:
- Share your AI model, training material, and roles across your entire team for coherent communication.
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Specialized Support:
- Benefit from 1-on-1 support specialists to aid in the setup and utilization of Ellie.
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Usage Limitations:
- Note that Ellie focuses on replying to emails rather than crafting cold emails. Each plan offers a set number of daily replies based on your subscription.
By following these steps, you can leverage Ellie's AI capabilities to streamline your email communication effectively and efficiently.
Pros
- Ellie's developers ensure data privacy and ethical handling of data
- Ellie crafts intelligent replies with a personal touch.
- Ellie learns from your writing style and creates replies as if they were written by you.
- Ellie can provide context-filled email responses for better communication
- Ellie supports multiple languages for email replies
- Ellie works as a browser extension directly in your inbox
- Considerable number of successful email replies generated for customers
- Advanced training mechanism allows teaching Ellie information about anything for better replies
- Ellie AI assistant learns from your writing style for more personalized replies
- Ellie saves time in answering emails.
Cons
- The Basic plan with limited features may not be sufficient for users with more complex email needs.
- No explicit mention of integration capabilities with other email tools or CRMs
- Limited email client support (fully supporting Gmail and Fastmail)
- Higher pricing for larger teams in the Business and Professional plans
- Advanced Training may require additional effort to train Ellie
- Limited number of replies provided in each plan
Ellie FAQs
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Can I use Ellie to write cold-emails?
- No. Ellie will only write replies to emails, not cold emails.
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What is a reply?
- Each plan gives you a certain number of replies. This is how many emails Ellie can write for you per day.
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What's the difference between the AI models?
- The current most advanced model is called GPT-4, capable of advanced instruction and creativity. On the Professional plan, a further fine-tuned model can be created using your email history.
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What is Advanced Training?
- Advanced Training lets you further train Ellie to understand more specific or private information by uploading text documents or URLs for Ellie to learn.
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What are roles for?
- Roles feature allows specifying different positions for Ellie, each with different training sets, such as assigning a 'Customer Support Specialist' role.
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Does Ellie read my emails?
- No, Ellie doesn't access your emails. Providing example email data helps the AI match your style better, and it reads recent replies for context to generate relevant replies.
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What browsers are supported?
- Ellie is available as a Chrome or Firefox Extension, with full support for Gmail and Fastmail and partial support for other web-based clients like Outlook and Apple Mail.
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Why is there a limit on the number of replies?
- Training AI and generating content costs money, hence the need for paid plans to access more replies.
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Ellie reviews
Khalil Sayeed
February 11, 2025
What do you like most about using Ellie?
Ellie's ability to understand context is phenomenal. It makes my communication feel natural and effortless.
What do you dislike most about using Ellie?
The AI can sometimes offer responses that are too verbose, but I can easily edit those.
What problems does Ellie help you solve, and how does this benefit you?
Ellie helps me maintain a high level of professionalism in my emails without taking too much of my time.
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Yasmin El-Sayed
February 2, 2025
What do you like most about using Ellie?
I like that it maintains my tone and style, which is important for my client relationships.
What do you dislike most about using Ellie?
I have noticed some minor errors in grammar and punctuation occasionally.
What problems does Ellie help you solve, and how does this benefit you?
It takes a load off my shoulders when it comes to email management, allowing me to focus on more critical tasks.
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Carlos Martinez
February 24, 2025
What do you like most about using Ellie?
Ellie provides an incredible level of personalization that no other tool I've tried has matched.
What do you dislike most about using Ellie?
It can be a bit slow to generate replies at times, but the quality makes up for it.
What problems does Ellie help you solve, and how does this benefit you?
It allows me to maintain my workload while ensuring I stay responsive to clients, which is crucial in my industry.
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