Who decided that AI gets to do the fun stuff while we remain the routing layer for work?

Hello Product Hunt! We’re Ellie and Vinay, the cofounders of Elvin.

We are busy people, creating Elvin for busy people

We built Elvin because we’re all overloaded. So far, AI is making it worse, not better. Every AI-generated message or newsletter becomes someone else’s noise, and that person still has to process it. And getting AI to help meant stopping to write a pile of prompts first.

Somewhere along the way, AI grabbed all the big, interesting work, and we got left as the routing layer. Sorting, chasing, following up. That felt backward.

If AI is so smart, it should figure out how it can help you, not the other way around.

So we built Elvin: a proactive personal agent that works ahead of you. It reads across your email, chat, and calendar, identifies what needs to be done, and gets started. It's as powerful as it is proactive. It does the big jobs, building documents and graphics, not just drafting emails (though it does that too).

If you’ve seen OpenClaw, you know proactive AI is real and can figure out how to do real tasks. Elvin is that, minus the hardware, the tokens, and the command line.

How Elvin works

🔍 Elvin finds tasks in your email and other tools (or you can message Elvin)

📋 Elvin creates plans for how to get the work done for you

✅ You just say yes, and off to the races! (Or tweak the plan)

⚡ Turn on Elvin’s pre-built skills for your job role or build your own

Elvin is multiplayer

🤝 Connect with your teammates

🤖 Even add your AI Agent friends like AI Software Engineer @Devin by Cognition

Elvin’s origin story

We like making powerful tools that are usable by everyone.

Back in 2018, I (Ellie) joined Slack and was immediately overwhelmed by the number of new messages and channels. I wondered when AI would be able to help me find what was most important for me to read, and could it generate a todo list based on information coming in from all of your messages and apps. In 2018, AI was not up to the task.

In 2025, Vinay and I realized that the technology was there to build a product that could not only find your most important work but also get it done for you with self-writing AI Agents.

Elvin is available on iPhone, Android, and the web. Free while it’s in beta. No waitlist. Big thanks to @Voicepanel and @CodeAnt AI for making Elvin possible!

Thanks for having a look!

✨ Ellie and Vinay