Two exGlovo and exTesla create a virtual assistant that saves up to 70% of the time you spend on email

It's one of the most descriptive images of what office anxiety represents. It is repeated every Monday with a special event after the long weekends and, of course, after the holidays.

a Collapsed email inbox Challenges the user with an unfriendly face. The recipient of such a huge army of digital messages begins to exert great effort trying to figure out where to start in the very long list of pending tasks, as he begins to dive into all kinds of routine communications: there are important ones, urgent ones, and even the occasional surprise one.

It is certain that the image is daily for you, dear reader. Which has not been tested on some occasions This feeling of loss of control and unproductivity.

accurately, Alleviating these human limitations is the ultimate goal of technology. And it is not always about giving birth to cutting-edge projects, but about touching the key to that problem that complicates the existence of most of us on Earth and which, with a little creativity and business vision, could have an easy and accessible solution. the majority.

This is the conclusion they reached Ricardo Batista and Daniel Garciatwo former employees of Glovo and Tesla, leave behind what had until then been their careers and embark on an entrepreneurial adventure.

It was Ricardo Batista General Manager of Glovo in Portugal Subsequently, he became Glovo's Managing Director of Lola Market – an acquired company in Madrid. He also knows the investment sector well, having also served as director of Antler building projects in Spain and Portugal.

“The Antler project was a success when it was launched in the Iberian Peninsula After 18 months, I felt the need to embark on a new project. The fact that I was so close to the entrepreneurs made me want to start a business too, which I did once I found the perfect co-founder.”

Ricardo Batista served as general manager of Glovo in Portugal, and Daniel Garcia was the first engineer hired by Tesla in Spain.

This person is Daniel Garcia, The first engineer hired by Tesla in Spanish territory, He was invited to go to Palo Alto at the end of 2022. When his path crossed with Ricardo's, the connection was immediate.

“The day we met, we spent two hours talking about the problems we face in our professional lives, focusing on excessive communication,” Batista explains to D+I – EL ESPAÑOL.

“I've always wanted to start a business, and working at Tesla became a bit boring for me, so when I met Ricardo it was the final push I needed to take that step,” says Daniel Garcia.

“Any professional today ends their day with 200 unread Slack messages, 100 emails to check, and still has to monitor friends and family's WhatsApp. This created anxiety in us, and we stressed that it also made the people around us feel anxious.“We didn't even know where to start,” Batista adds.

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With the advent of the AI ​​wave, Ricardo and Daniel confirmed that the problem of email management could have a reasonable solution. You just had to embody the idea. So they started thinking about how to create A personal assistant that processes messages and prioritizes them based on the user's personal preferences.

This is how Emilio was born, the assistant that allows us to put some order in all the applications that we have to attend to daily and It gives us a summary of what we need to do to improve the tasks.

“Soon, based on the user's familiarity and dialect, what can be typed will be planned, so that all we have to do is click submit.”

ricardo batista, Co-founder of Emilio

“And soon, based on user familiarity and tone of voice, You will plan what to write“So the user only has to click submit,” says Ricardo Battista. “In our first tests, we were able to reduce time spent on email by 60-70%.”

Assistant is available for Gmail, though it will soon include new email platforms, and It does not require installation or require you to change your email account.,Only what the user already owns is integrated.

Emilio automates responses

“There are studies that indicate that only 20% of the emails we receive require our attention. The rest is not a priority, and the management of which does not add value to a professional’s work. If we can free them from this burden and Emilio answers him, according to his standards and priorities, and even using his accent“The professional will be able to focus on what is important and where to invest his or her time to generate value.”

2024 is a key year for the company, which is committed to maintaining a small team for now. “Daniel and I went through times of a bear market (2011-2016), when resources and budgets were tight, and times of a bull market (2017-2021), when it was easier to invest money, We both lived it at Glovo and Teslarespectively”.

Emilio will be responsible for emails that can be managed with automated responses based on user criteria so the user can focus on messages that add value.

“So, we like small teams that allow for speed, which is why we aspire to have two or three people helping us with marketing and technology during this year.”

Emilio was born in Spain, But with a global invitation They already have clients in the US and Russia, and they have an MVP.Minimum viable product).

For now, the co-founders have relied on… Private funds to implement the project in its early stages, But they do not rule out resorting to a funding round a little later, when the initiative expands and gains more speed, as they explained to D+I.

The road ahead for Emilio is long, as in any entrepreneurial project, but technology already allows us to provide an automated email management solution, which, on this occasion, was born with a Spanish seal.