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Never Miss Important Emails Again, Sifta Alerts You Before It's Too Late

Never miss important emails again, that's the core promise of Sifta. The AI monitors your Gmail or Outlook inbox continuously, reads every email that arrives, and sends you a text the moment something genuinely needs your attention. Whether you're in a meeting, deep in work, or on the road, important emails find you, in seconds, on the device you already keep within reach.

The cost of missed emails is usually invisible. You do not learn that a customer churned because their support email sat unread for two days, or that a candidate took another offer because the recruiter could not reach you fast enough. The missed emails do not show up in your day. They show up later as deals that closed slower, relationships that cooled, and decisions that were made without you. Sifta makes those costs preventable. By texting you within seconds when a high-priority email lands, it closes the window in which important messages can sit unseen. If you are reachable by phone at all, you are reachable by Sifta, and the inbox stops being a place where things slip through. There is also a confidence benefit that changes how you operate. Once you trust that Sifta is reading every email and would alert you immediately if anything urgent lands, the residual anxiety about your inbox fades. You can take a real lunch, attend a long meeting, or focus on writing for two hours, without the background worry that you might be missing something that is actively going wrong.

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Quick Answer

Sifta makes it physically impossible to miss an important email by sending you an iMessage alert within seconds of any high-priority message arriving in your Gmail or Outlook inbox. Sifta reads the full email content to identify important messages from new contacts and unexpected senders, not just the people already on your VIP list. When Sifta has not texted you, nothing in your inbox needs your attention.

Sound Familiar?

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The worst inbox moments aren't the ones where you're overwhelmed, they're the ones where you realize you missed something time-sensitive 24 hours ago.

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Standard email notifications are too noisy to trust, so you've turned them off, but that means you're not alerted when the important ones arrive.

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Batch email checking means high-priority emails sometimes sit for hours before you see them, by which point the window to respond has narrowed.

How Sifta Fixes This

Sifta continuously monitors your inbox and triggers an alert the moment a high-priority email lands, not during your next scheduled check-in.

The alert is a text in iMessage with a summary of the email, you know immediately whether it needs an immediate response or can wait.

Because Sifta handles the noise, the signal-to-noise ratio of alerts is high. When your phone buzzes from Sifta, it's worth looking at.

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What You Get

Real-time alerts for important emails, no delayed batch checking

High trust in alerts because noise is filtered out

Important emails reach you during meetings, travel, and deep work

No more time-sensitive emails discovered hours after they were sent

Frequently Asked Questions

How fast does Sifta alert me after an email arrives? +

Typically within 60 seconds. Sifta polls your inbox continuously and processes new emails in real time. Most alerts arrive well within a minute of the email landing.

What if I'm in a country with limited phone signal? +

If you don't have data or cellular, iMessages will queue and deliver as soon as connectivity is restored. The alert will still be there when you reconnect.

What counts as 'important'? +

Emails that require a response, are time-sensitive, come from people you interact with frequently, or have content that signals urgency. The definition adapts to your personal behavior and preferences.

Can I adjust the sensitivity of what counts as important? +

Yes. During onboarding and in settings, you can tune the importance threshold. A higher threshold means fewer but higher-confidence alerts. A lower threshold means more alerts with broader coverage.

What if I am in a country with bad data coverage? +

iMessage will queue Sifta alerts and deliver them as soon as you have any connectivity, even briefly. You can also configure Sifta to send via SMS as a fallback, which works wherever you have basic cellular service. For long offline periods, Sifta will queue a digest of what you missed so you can catch up quickly when you reconnect.

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Sifta is in early access at $49/month. Works with Gmail and Outlook. Setup takes 2 minutes.

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