What if work didn’t feel like work, but like you were jacked into a video game or CIA terminal?
What if Office wasn’t designed by Microsoft, but by engineers and gamers making something for ourselves?
Armed with $30 million from a16z, our team set out to build the interface we wanted: fast, tactile, dopamine-heavy.
Macro: one app for email, messages, notes, files, projects, tasks @linked together.
We've moved over to Macro in place of Slack/Notion/Gmail/HubSpot; it runs our entire company.
Macro isn't for everyone.
It's for founders, engineers and operators that want to move super fast.
- One app, everything in one db instead of separate apps
- Keyboard combos, instant dopamine, fast search
- Mods, custom themes, source code
01 Core Idea Everything in one database instead of separate apps.
We call it The Soup. It's super powerful, simple and fast once you get the hang of it.
- Gmail inbox =
type:email inbox:true - Files =
type:file,folder view:compact - Important tasks =
type:task due:[1 week] - Prospects =
type:company last_contacted:[1 wk] tag:prospect
Superhuman speed × Cursor-like AI agent × Outlook multi-account shared inbox. Connects to your existing Gmail or Google Workspace account.
Messaging
Channels like Slack × smooth like Discord × a unified inbox with email.
When you open a channel, it looks pretty similar to Slack except replies display inline (like Reddit) instead of hidden.
Just type @ to link any Entity.
Notion does this for notes, Attio does this for CRM; Macro does it for everything! Reference contacts, companies, channels, files... everything.
Documents
Docs that are deep @linked to everything else in your workspace.
Diagrams
A 2d canvas is often better than a text file, but its harder to keep it up to date. Macro fixes that by deep-linking @tasks @files @emails etc. onto the canvas. Embeds and links auto-update, so your original plans are connected to the actual work.
Files & Folders
Macro is like Drive but with good search and AI agent, keyboard
shortcuts and cmd+k. Agent can search the text of
everything and provides citations back to specific lines in documents.
Import from Drive or your computer to get started.
Intelligence
The latest AI models are amazing with right context. @mention messages, files, emails, projects and tasks to manually provide context. Toggle into agent mode and AI can search your emails, messages files.
02 Power tools Macro is built exclusively for humans on critical missions.
Splits
Macro has its own window manager. Just type cmd+\ to create
a new split. A bigger screen can fit more splits.
Shortcuts
Everything has a shortcut. If you can't find it, you can always hit `cmd+m` to enter visor mode which makes everything a button.
Themes
The most insane UI customization options and color picker you've ever seen. We probably didn't have to build this, but we did.
Coming Soon
Tasks
We tried every task manager but still fall back to a text file or Apple Note. The problem is most task managers are too clever when they should just be fast and flexible.
CRM
We're adding CRM features and scope creeping towards a full system you can use as your primary CRM. Some things we're excited about:
-
Hit
cmd+k→ person or company to bring up all emails between you and them - @mention a contact/company in channels, DMs or docs - clicking it opens their record
- From a contact or company record, see where they've been @mentioned throughout the workspace
Together, these features will solve the issues we faced using Slack + HubSpot + Salesforce, where half the convo happens in Slack, half in email, and some tidbits in the CRM. Nothing ties together and there's a ton of lost knowledge because info is scattered.
Open Source
We believe software should be open, exciting and moddable. It should be collective, built by the people and companies that use it. When you need a CRM, you should have multiple options on Github and be able to fork and modify it to your liking. We're building the foundations for this ecosystem.
We're still thinking through whether to AGPLv3 the whole thing except the desktop/mobile wrappers, or do a source-available model like Unreal Engine. Coming 2026.
Pricing
$20usd / per founding user / per month
Macro is still in "early access" and we're looking for early adopters. If you can tolerate some rough edges and are open to providing feedback please Sign Up
// If you're interested in a team plan, shoot us some electronic mail.