Micro, an AI-powered all-in-one workspace designed to make email, CRM, project management, and other workflows stress-free, today announced its official launch out of stealth. Micro is a major departure from the brute force, inbox-zero productivity culture and tooling over the last two decades. Rather than treating email as a to-do list to clear, Micro extracts and organizes critical data, transforming it into intelligent, automated Micro Apps for managing sales, fundraising, hiring, travel, documents and more.

The most important database of your life

Founded by Brett Goldstein, two-time founder and former computational cognitive science researcher, Micro is built for founders and and professionals who want to focus on meaningful work rather than managing productivity tools.

As Brett puts it, “Your inbox is the most important database of your life. It’s the system of record of your personal and professional life. It knows where you’ve traveled, who you know, what you've bought, and so on. We implicitly know this - hence why we search for documents in email for example - but there has never been a tool until Micro built around it.”

Instead of simply helping users "manage” email, Micro extracts and automates the valuable data inside inboxes—turning them into intelligent Micro apps tailored for key business functions.

The Biggest Productivity Myth

Inbox zero is a myth—one popularized by productivity gurus who convinced an entire generation that clearing messages equates to getting work done. The reality? No one ever truly achieves it, and the pressure to do so fuels stress rather than results. The modern professional spends 28% of the workday reading and answering email or 2.6 hours per day. For businesses, this translates to massive productivity drains, increased stress and a workforce trapped in a cycle of inbox anxiety.

Micro is tackling this challenge head-on. Instead of forcing users to sift through an ever-growing list of messages, the platform employs its proprietary "Prism" system—an AI-powered engine that extracts and structures data from emails and other sources, transforming them into actionable objects within Micro Apps. Whether it’s sales, fundraising, or hiring, the system shifts email from a source of anxiety to a streamlined, intelligent productivity system.

Reinventing The Email

“Email is at the center of how we work and interact with the world, but it’s frozen in time”, Goldstein explains. "Gmail launched 21 years ago on April 1st, but the email experience hasn’t really changed since then. It’s still a big, mixed-up list of messages that you're shamed about if you don't manually go through it every day. Email has evolved and thanks to advances in AI that make processing email at scale possible, the email client can now finally evolve into a more human-centered, flexible tool that leans into what email is actually used for – everything.”

Large language models analyze every email, identify key action items, and automatically organizes information so users can easily tap into what’s immediately most important. The Micro home page provides a bird’s eye view of everything happening in your day-to-day life – from important emails to tasks that are due, upcoming meetings, and even provides an AI-generated daily summary. With a single prompt, professionals can instantly create customized Micro Apps for tracking deals, managing hiring pipelines, overseeing fundraising efforts, consuming industry news, and more.

Most importantly, Micro eliminates the mental burden of email management, allowing users to focus on high-impact work instead of drowning in inbox clutter.

Key Features Include:

  • Complete Unified Interface: A centralized workspace combining email management, task tracking, document creation, and CRM capabilities with a high-level dashboard for all essential information.
  • Intelligent Self-organization: Uses AI to automatically update records, extract tasks from emails, enrich contact data, and backfill pipelines based on communication history.
  • Seamless Collaboration: Facilitates real-time collaboration on documents, CRM records, and emails while maintaining shared organizational contacts.
  • Deep Customization: Features a flexible architecture system allowing for infinite configurability and AI-generated pipelines/apps from single prompts.
  • Global & Personal Knowledge Graph: Connects and enriches all contacts, companies, and interactions by combining public data with team-based private data and communication history.

This approach reduces cognitive overload, minimizes stress, and enables professionals to work in a way that supports their actual needs.

A Deeply Personal Mission

For Goldstein, solving this challenge is deeply personal. As a two-time founder with a background in computational cognitive science and neuroscience labs, his career has been dedicated to understanding and optimizing how people work.

At Accenture’s R&D lab, he helped Fortune 100 companies integrate AI-driven collaboration tools, earning a patent for his innovations. At Google, he worked on early AI-powered communication systems, including an AI assistant and auto-suggest technology. Later, as Head of Platform and Integrations at Clearbit, he saw firsthand how businesses rely on email for mission-critical decisions—despite its inherent inefficiencies.

With Micro, Goldstein is redefining the role of email in modern work. By transforming inboxes into intelligent, automated workspaces, he’s shifting email from a daily source of stress into a powerful productivity engine. And for professionals drowning in an endless sea of messages, that transformation can’t come soon enough.