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Carly AI is an AI executive assistant and workflow automation platform for scheduling, email management, inbox triage, CRM automation, sales, marketing, customer follow-up, operations, and administrative support. Carly helps businesses create AI agents that can handle repetitive work across email, SMS, calendars, Salesforce, HubSpot, spreadsheets, CRMs, and other business tools.
With Carly, teams can automate meeting scheduling, lead follow-up, customer support workflows, data entry, CRM updates, outreach, reminder emails, daily briefings, task management, spreadsheet updates, sales operations, marketing operations, and recurring business processes. Carly can read context, follow custom instructions, ask clarifying questions, and complete multi-step workflows that normally require a human assistant or operations teammate.
Unlike traditional automation tools that require users to build and maintain complex workflows themselves, Carly works like an AI executive assistant. You explain what you need, and Carly helps set up AI-powered workflows and agents to get the work done. Businesses use Carly to save time, reduce manual admin work, improve response times, keep CRM and customer data up to date, and automate everyday operations across their company.
ForthWrite is an AI email writing assistant for Gmail and Outlook that learns your writing style from your real sent mail. The more you use it, the more it sounds like you. Get smart drafts in seconds, auto-draft replies before you open your inbox, and maintain your personal voice at scale. Free to start, no credit card required. Works inside Gmail and Outlook on the web.
How it works
ForthWrite captures your tone, sentence rhythm, and sign-offs from your actual sent emails, then uses that profile to generate drafts that match how you write, not a generic AI voice. Every draft you edit or send improves the model over time.
Key features
Who uses it
Professionals who send high volumes of relationship-critical email: lawyers, financial advisors, recruiters, account executives, founders, and anyone who wants their inbox handled without sounding like a chatbot wrote it.
Pricing
Free tier includes 10 drafts per week with no credit card required. Paid plans start at $12/month and include unlimited drafts, custom persona prompts, and auto-draft.
Carly AI
ForthWriteCarly AI's answer
Carly AI is unique because it works like a real AI executive assistant, not just another automation tool. Instead of making users build workflows themselves, Carly interviews them, understands what they need, and creates AI agents that can handle work across email, calendars, CRM, spreadsheets, SMS, and other business tools. Carly can manage scheduling, inbox workflows, CRM updates, sales follow-up, marketing tasks, customer support, reminders, daily briefings, and recurring operations โ all through natural language.
ForthWrite's answer:
ForthWrite learns your writing style from your actual sent mail, not a generic prompt. Every draft sounds like you wrote it because it was trained on how you actually write. It also auto-drafts replies before you open your inbox, so your email is partially handled before your day starts.
Carly AI's answer
Carly AI started as an AI scheduling assistant designed to help busy people manage their calendars over email. Over time, customers began asking Carly to handle more than scheduling: inbox management, follow-ups, CRM updates, marketing tasks, customer workflows, reminders, data entry, and recurring business processes. Carly evolved from a calendar assistant into a full AI executive assistant that can build and run AI agents across the tools businesses already use.
ForthWrite's answer:
Built out of frustration with AI writing tools that produce text that sounds nothing like the person sending it, and as a way to handle large amounts of daily email. The core insight was that your sent mail is the best training data you already have, and no tool was using it.
Carly AI's answer
A person should choose Carly AI because it is built for people who want work done, not people who want to spend time configuring automations. Carly combines the flexibility of workflow automation with the judgment of an AI assistant. It can understand messy, real-world business processes, ask follow-up questions, build the workflow, and keep improving it. Carly is especially useful for busy founders, operators, sales teams, and service businesses that need reliable help with admin, follow-up, scheduling, CRM, and customer communication without hiring another employee or learning a complicated automation platform.
ForthWrite's answer:
Most AI email tools give you a blank box and a "write for me" button. ForthWrite builds a voice profile from your sent history and gets more accurate with every draft you edit or send. Unlike ChatGPT or Gemini, it works natively inside Gmail and Outlook with no copy-paste. Unlike Lavender, it writes the draft, not just scores it.
Carly AI's answer
Carly AI is primarily built for founders, executives, small businesses, sales teams, customer-facing teams, operators, and busy professionals who spend too much time on administrative work. It is especially useful for people who rely heavily on email, calendars, CRMs, spreadsheets, and customer follow-up, and who want an AI assistant that can actually take work off their plate.
ForthWrite's answer:
Professionals who send high volumes of relationship-critical email and cannot afford to sound generic: lawyers, financial advisors, recruiters, account executives, consultants, and founders managing their own inbox.
Carly AI's answer
Carly AI is built using artificial intelligence, large language models, workflow automation, natural language processing, calendar APIs, email APIs, CRM integrations, cloud infrastructure, and secure OAuth-based integrations with business tools. Carly connects with tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Salesforce, HubSpot, spreadsheets, SMS platforms, and other business applications to automate work across a companyโs existing systems.
ForthWrite's answer:
Next.js, React, Supabase, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Stripe, Vercel, Chrome Extensions API
I built ForthWrite because I kept sending emails that sounded like they came from the same generic AI as everyone else. After launching it, I still use it for my own inbox every day, which is about the most honest endorsement I can give.
The Chrome extension lives inside Gmail and Outlook on the web. Open a thread, hit Alt+Shift+D, and a draft comes back in your voice, not a template. The free tier is real: 10 drafts per week, no API key, no credit card. Voice matching is included on free, because that is the point.
What keeps it useful compared to Gemini or a chat tab: it learns from what you actually send. Every edit you make before hitting send becomes a signal. Over time the drafts drift closer to how you really write, and the dashboard shows the improvement curve so you can see it happening.
The web compose surface lets you draft from forthwrite.ai without installing anything, useful for people who want to try before committing to the extension.
Standard adds recipient-aware and intent-aware drafting plus AI coaching. Pro adds auto-draft (replies waiting when you open Gmail), batch replies, and Prompt Lab for version-controlling your prompts. Teams adds a shared persona and seat-level analytics.
ForthWrite is not for everyone. If you just need quick replies and tone does not matter, Gemini is free and already in your inbox. ForthWrite is for people where tone does matter: client communication, relationship-driven threads, external correspondence where sounding off costs something real.
Disclosure: I am the founder and use it daily. Happy to answer questions in the comments.
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