About Syve

Built by operators who lived in their inbox.

Syve started from a small, annoying observation: the emails and meetings that move a quarter are almost never the loudest. Sender-based inboxes reward whoever pinged last; the customer whose renewal you promised to close sits three screens down. We built the assistant we wanted for ourselves — one that reads the plan you actually wrote and ranks the day against it.

Why we're building it

Every executive tool we tried was fast at the wrong thing. Faster triage, faster keyboard shortcuts, faster summaries. None of them knew what the quarter was about. So the same problem — inbox drifting out of sync with strategy — kept coming back, just at a higher wpm.

The fix was smaller than it sounds. Give an assistant one document — the plan you already wrote — and every ranking that follows can cite the goal it advances. That single primitive is what makes a briefing worth reading, a meeting audit worth running, and a weekly recap worth showing your board.

The team

Michael Hoffmann
Founder

Previously an operator across strategy, product, and finance roles. Built Syve after one too many Sunday nights spent rebuilding a week that should have been ranked correctly on Monday morning.

What we believe

  • Strategy is a document, not a vibe.

    If you can write it down, an assistant can rank against it. Every ranking should cite the goal it advances.

  • Ten items or it isn't a briefing.

    A decision aid is finite. A second inbox isn't.

  • Meetings should defend themselves weekly.

    A recurring block that no longer advances a goal should be visible, scored, and easy to decline.

  • Privacy is not a feature.

    Your data ranks your inbox. It doesn't train a shared model. That's the floor, not the ceiling.

Try it on your own inbox

14-day free trial. Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com today; Gmail on the waitlist.