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Email, messages, docs, tasks, calls, and CRM — @linked together in one workspace.
Our first startup came apart post Series A, right when it felt like everything was going well. We had twenty people across engineering, marketing, and sales, $1M+ ARR, $20M funding. The problem was the company wasn't built to scale. Engineering, sales, and marketing weren't operating as one. Context was scattered across Slack, email, docs, meetings, and a dozen SaaS tools. We realized we were missing something fundamental: an operating cadence for the company, and a system to support it. Macro is that system.
- Jacob Beckerman, Co-Founder & CEO at Macro
Email, messages, docs, tasks, calls, and CRM — @linked together in one workspace.
Shared, team-level memory built nightly from your unified workspace.
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Get through your email faster with AI triage, keyboard shortcuts, auto-tagging, team sharing, and drafting in your voice.
Get through your email faster with AI triage, keyboard shortcuts, auto-tagging, team sharing, and drafting in your voice.
Explore Email →Collaborate with your team and agents on CRDT-powered markdown documents live @linked to email, tasks, and channels.
Collaborate with your team and agents on CRDT-powered markdown documents live @linked to email, tasks, and channels.
Explore Documents →Distraction-free team conversations @linked to tasks, docs and email, focused into Signal (priority) and Noise (check later) sections.
Distraction-free team conversations @linked to tasks, docs and email, focused into Signal (priority) and Noise (check later) sections.
Explore Messages →“Every startup should be using @macrodotcom man like for $40 you can get Notion, Slack, Linear, Zoom and the fastest UI i have ever seen for navigating Gmail like a StarCraft grandmaster”
Tasks have instant access to email, chat, and docs. Keyboard-first, auto deduplicated, and closeable by agents.
Explore Tasks →Messages are designed to be converted to tasks. A message can be sent as a task to any channel.
Your tasks live in the same keyboard-driven inbox as your email and messages.
Once work moves to a PR, tasks update based on merge status.
Assign a task to a Macro agent. The agent can open PRs, update docs, and close out the task.
Tasks have instant access to email, chat, and docs. Keyboard-first, auto deduplicated, and closeable by agents.
Explore Tasks →Macro is not open source because I like Richard Stallman. I don’t personally use Linux. I have an iPhone and I prefer when people text me with blue bubbles, though of course I think this is a bit of an anti-competitive practice. My point is I am not an open source maximalist. Nor am I a free software evangelist.
Access management is one of the hardest systems we've built at Macro, and the one we've rewritten the most. The design we finally landed on does the most work under the hood and is the easiest for users to understand. This is one part of a multi-part piece on how we design the Macro filesystem (MFS). Our focus in this article is the access management (permissions and sharing) system.
We loved Linear. Before Macro we ran our old company on it, and Macro Tasks is inspired by its keyboard-first speed and design principles. Linear is really really good for pure task tracking.
Before Macro, we used to run the company on Notion. I was so excited when I first discovered it… it was early on in our startup and I was looking for one place to run the company out of, instead of a bunch of different tools. I really liked its @mentioning system to link things together (though back in 2020 it was very slow) and the promise of Notion databases to organize things how I wanted. Notion held up for us for 2.5 years, until we hired a sales team and our VP of Sales requested a proper CRM, and our engineering team demanded Linear. We never used Notion Mail (now defunct) because we used Superhuman. Anyways, my point is Notion didn't really deliver on its promise of "all in one" and the core reason it didn't is that a database of markdown files isn't really competitive with well-built software built for a specific purpose. Salesforce, Attio and HubSpot are a better CRM than Notion will ever be. Linear is a better task tracker. And so on.
Before Macro, we used Slack for years and never had any problems with it. That's to say, beyond the usual, mildly annoying problems that I didn't think of as being that bad:
Macro is heavily inspired by Superhuman. While building Macro we had the privilege of speaking with the co-founders of Superhuman. They invented CMD+K, popularized dark mode (especially in email), and the idea of luxury, highly polished software. They laid the foundations for high-taste companies that came after them like Linear. The main difference between Macro and Superhuman is that Macro is multi-modal. Superhuman is a really fast email client, but only for one inbox at a time. Macro is that plus your team chat, your docs, and your GitHub PRs, all triaged from one list with the same keyboard shortcuts. On top of that we made a handful of specific improvements to the email experience itself.
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