Espa is an AI executive assistant that helps you get things done. Espa schedules your meetings, helps you follow through on tasks, and organizes your email. You can text Espa (or send a voice memo) to book meetings, set reminders, and handle the back-and-forth in group threads. Draft replies that sound just like you, and organize all of your events & to-dos in one place. Espa protects your data with bank-grade encryption, and does not retain or train LLM models on your personal data.
I'm not the most organized person. Never have been. My friends will tell you. My wife will tell you. Anyone who sat next to me in class at Waterloo will tell you.
Yet, I've built things I'm incredibly proud of. I founded and scaled Forethought, an agentic AI customer service company from 0 to $100M+ raised, 1 billion monthly interactions, and a successful acquisition.
In building and scaling a company, I realized that the most successful builders and executives often have really strong teams they can rely on. And if truly agentic AI could work so well for companies, then could it work just as well for individual humans?
So I built Espa to democratize the idea of executive support and scale it to billions. Espa has a phone number and email just like an AI teammate. It's integrated with your Google or Outlook, so it can help you scheduling meetings, manage your inbox, and tackle your todos twice as fast.
And most importantly, it's built with a privacy-first design so you can trust Espa with your work and life. Espa doesn't retain your email or calendar data or train models on it, so your data truly belongs to you. And we have a cool way of doing "memories" and personalization, so ultimately anything Espa learns about you is saved in a doc that you have full read, edit, and delete control over.
I'm actually really really proud of our (small-but-mighty) team for building this. And hope you all will love it!
Around to answer any questions!
Espa is the only assistant who got my voice so quickly. The draft replies are so helpful because they actually sound like me!
Searching email via text is the big get for me with Espa. I was a beta user and can’t tell you how many times I saved myself from mining through 30+ email chains just to find a single detail; Espa just texts the info you want straight back to you. Removes a ton of friction in ways I was very happy to discover
AI executive assistants are only useful if the friction of getting tasks in is lower than doing it yourself. How does Espa handle quick captures on mobile? That's usually the bottleneck — building something in this space too and it's the hardest problem to solve
honestly the email integration is what makes or breaks this. if it can actually draft replies in my voice without me editing them it saves the most annoying part of my day
That intro about not being organized hits way too close to home. 😂 i've tried every to-do app and they all feel like more work to maintain. the idea of having an ai teammate with an actual phone number and email that just gets it sounds like the holy grail. definitely checking this out.
About Espa on Product Hunt
“AI executive assistant for your to-do's, scheduling, & email”
Espa launched on Product Hunt on May 8th, 2026 and earned 77 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. Espa is an AI executive assistant that helps you get things done. Espa schedules your meetings, helps you follow through on tasks, and organizes your email. You can text Espa (or send a voice memo) to book meetings, set reminders, and handle the back-and-forth in group threads. Draft replies that sound just like you, and organize all of your events & to-dos in one place. Espa protects your data with bank-grade encryption, and does not retain or train LLM models on your personal data.
Espa was featured in Email (36.7k followers), Productivity (651.7k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (468.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 232.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Espa?
Espa was hunted by Deon Nicholas. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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