Garry Tan

Bond - The AI to-do list that does itself

Bond is an AI Chief of Staff for executives. It connects to your tools, learns how your company works, and turns scattered tasks into a self-managing to-do list that always knows what you need to do next. You can ask Bond to prepare you for your next meeting, draft a follow-up, send an email, create action items, identify blockers, surface risks, or delegate tasks to team members.

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Emilia Novak

How does Bond handle the political dimension of task delegation where who you assign something to matters as much as what gets assigned does it factor in org chart dynamics or relationships?

Theo Depraetere

@emilia_novak Great question, Emilia 🌞

Bond doesn't just look at the task; it builds context around the people involved: who owns what, who has handled similar work before, who is already in the thread, and what the working relationship looks like across meetings, email, Slack, and docs.

That helps it suggest a the best person to delegate to, rather than just guessing from a title.

But the political judgment still stays with the human. Bond can surface the context and draft the handoff in the right tone, but the executive or chief of staff decides whether that assignment is appropriate. Our view is that AI should make the judgment easier, not pretend the nuance doesn't exist.

sanreds
This is greatly thought out! Congratulations on the launch. 1. Are you placing this product, as a replacement to any of the current products or a new addition to an employee’s deck? 2. How are you justifying to customers the amount it costs vs the amount it saves(any numbers)? Or just saved time? 3. Is it focused more on SMBs or enterprises or one-man kinda lean startups? May be your actual current customer split might answer this.
Theo Depraetere

@sanreds Thank you, sanreds ! Great questions.

1. We don't see Bond as replacing one specific tool. It sits above the tools you already use and helps turn all that scattered context into a self-managing todo layer. So less "another app to maintain," more "an orchestration layer across the stack."

2. The ROI is mostly time and follow-through: fewer missed follow-ups, less context reconstruction, faster delegation, and less chief-of-staff/EA busywork. For execs, even saving a few hours a week can justify the cost, but the bigger value is often avoiding the one thing that would have slipped through the cracks and ofc staying focused on the right company goals is gold.

3. Today we're most focused on founders, executives, chiefs of staff, and lean leadership teams where the coordination load is already painful. That tends to be scaling startups and SMBs more than huge enterprises right now, though the product naturally becomes more valuable as the org gets more complex.

Hope this helps 😊

abhishek Srivastava

It's really a good problem to solve. In today's era there are so many tools available and sometime deciding which one to use to increase the productivity, we end losing the time only. The "self-managing to-do list" framing is really awesome.

However a quick question: If I finish a call where some action items were verbally agreed on but never written down, can Bond pick those up from a calendar event + transcript and automatically surface them ? Also I have recently Zoom is also providing something similar, how are you differentiating from Zoom ?

Theo Depraetere

@abhishek_srivastava_eng Thanks Abhishek, could not agree more 🙏

For your question: Yesss, if the call has a transcript or meeting notes connected, Bond can combine that with the calendar context, pull out the verbal action items, identify owners, and surface them as todos with evidence back to the meeting.

Zoom can summarize a Zoom meeting... but Bond is actively trying to manage the follow-through. So if an action item comes up in a call, then gets discussed later in Slack, then needs an email follow-up, Bond connects those dots and keeps tracking it until it's resolved.

Natalia Iankovych

Very interesting. Can your AI make phone calls to inquire about something or make reservations? There are a lot of use cases for that in this field. Does it support multiple languages?

Theo Depraetere

@natalia_iankovych Great question, Natalia 🙏
Phone calls are definitely on our radar, there are a lot of executive-assistant use cases there, from reservations to chasing information, but Bond doesn't make autonomous phone calls yet.

Today we're focused on the highest-volume written workflows first: email, Slack, calendar, meetings, todos, and follow-ups. That's where executives lose the most operational time, and it's also where we can keep the approval loop and audit trail very clear.

On languages: yes, the underlying AI can work across multiple languages, and we already think of Bond as needing to support international teams. The main thing we're careful about is quality and tone especially when Bond is drafting on someone's behalf, so we prefer to expand language support deliberately rather than claim every language is equally polished on day one.

What language would you want us to support ?
Thankss

Alochukwu Dibor-Alfred

This is great!! Love to see systems that reduce cognitive overload. Curious to know, "It connects to your tools, learns how your company works..." how long does this 'learning' typically take?

Theo Depraetere

@alochukwu Thanks Alochukwu, honestly, it's pretty damn fast. At most, it should take about a day to start seeing the first company insights, and the self-onboarding should already give you a strong feel for the magic. 🪄

Sam Ruedinger
Sounds awesome. Its expensive. Maybe thats worth it but with no free trial and a high setup tax, the hurdle to actually seeing it work is too high.
Ignacio Borrell

Solid launch for Bond. What was the hardest part to get right so far?Good to see Bond: The AI to-do list that does itself ship. Which use case are you seeing the most demand for?

Theo Depraetere

@borrellbr Thank you, Ignacio!
Hardest part so far has been getting from "AI finds tasks" to "AI finds the right tasks." It's easy to create another noisy list. Much harder to reliably understand context, merge duplicates, avoid stale todos, and surface the few things that actually matter today.

The use case with the most demand so far is follow-through: catching the things that slip between email, Slack, meetings, and memory. Unanswered follow-ups, blockers, decisions waiting on someone, draft replies, delegation nudges, aka the operational loose ends that executives and chiefs of staff spend all day chasing.

That's why we like this framing, the real value isn't storing tasks, it's clearing as many of them as possible. What usecase did you have in mind for Bond?

Will Miller

@chloesamaha nice congrats! How exactly is the prioritization determined? Is it based on pre-set methodologies such as "this email was sent to you today and all emails should be responded to within 48 hours so the due date is therefore 48 hours from now" or is there some kind of way to evaluate the task against the business's overall strategy and the due dates / prioritization are determined that way?

Nick Linck

this looks awesome, I desperately need this for my team

Michal Giernatowski
The “self-managing to-do list” idea is compelling. How does Bond decide when to surface something, draft an action or actually act on behalf of an executive?
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