I raised $13M pitching a proactive agent. The demos impressed rooms. But the product wasn’t becoming part of anyone’s day. that was painful to admit. I had to let go of (my ego) and needing the idea to sound fancy. i stopped asking, “What can’t Codex or @bot do?” and started paying attention to what people were struggling with in their everyday work. Messages kept piling up across WhatsApp, iMessage, and email. Keeping up meant digging through old threads, switching apps, and worrying about tones. Something so small was taking up so much time,energy, and headspace(for me, messages and scheduling eating up 50%+ of my day). So I built ToneBird for it. Launching today ↓