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Elvin
Proactive AI that finds and finishes work before you ask
285 followers
Proactive AI that finds and finishes work before you ask
285 followers
Stop acting as the routing layer between AI and your actual work. Elvin is proactive AI that finds coordination work across your tools, handles the messy multi-step parts, and asks before taking action. It turns scattered context from messages, meetings, docs, and task tools into ready-to-approve drafts, follow-ups, updates, and next steps.
Elvin
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
One X Sensor
Have you guys considered the possibility of two Elvins collaborating when their users are working together while keeping each user's context completely separate?
For example, if User A and User B have an important planning meeting coming up, their Elvins could coordinate data gathering and preparation on both sides, with each user authorizing what they're willing to share and what actions to take. The goal would be to automate the groundwork on both ends and surface the best possible outcome for the meeting.
One Elvin could request data or trigger an action on the other side, which would then prompt the other user for approval before anything happens.
Nice idea. How does Elvin decide what counts as coordination work worth surfacing versus noise it should ignore?
The proactive angle is compelling. Most AI tools still wait for a prompt, which keeps humans as the workflow router. How does Elvin decide when to start work on its own versus when to pause and ask for confirmation? That boundary feels like the difference between an assistant and a real work agent.
Love the idea of AI that works ahead of you rather than waiting to be asked. How does Elvin handle situations where it gets context wrong and takes the wrong next step — is there an easy way to course-correct?
Build Check
Hey Ellie! It sound amazing cause sometimes I feel I'd take most of AI if someone else is telling what to do. Becomes a bottleneck usually, so I'm sure founders gonna love this. Wish you all the best!
That line about us becoming the routing layer hits way to close to home, ty guys for saving us from our own tools🫡