I kept missing messages I actually cared about.

Not because I was ignoring them. Because by the time I had space to reply, too much time had passed and it felt weird. The thread died. The relationship quietly suffered.

I did not need a better inbox. I needed another me.

The Actual Problem

Most AI writing tools generate something that sounds fine but reads like nobody. The goal with Mae was different: if the person receiving the reply could not tell I did not write it, it worked. If it felt slightly off, it failed.

That bar is harder than it sounds.

What I Built

Mae connects to Gmail, WhatsApp, and Slack. When a message comes in it reads the sender, pulls the relationship history, and generates a reply in my voice.

The voice part required training on real sent messages, segmented by relationship type. How I write to a close friend is different from how I write to a cold contact. The model learns both and switches automatically.

The thing that actually made it useful was confidence scoring.…