Macro is the all-in-one workspace that combines email, messages, docs, tasks, code, agents, calls, and CRM. With team-level memory, you can query your entire workspace and never lose context.
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Macro is the all-in-one workspace that combines email, messages, docs, tasks, code, agents, calls, and CRM. With team-level memory, you can query your entire workspace and never lose context.
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Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Jacob, the founder and CEO of Macro (macro.com) - an open source, all-in-one workspace.
In our last startup, we ran on Slack + Linear + Notion + Superhuman + 17 other tools. All of these are fine individually but as we scaled it became chaotic to manage, and information was everywhere.
We built Macro to replace siloed apps and put them all into a unified workspace with shared AI memory.
Already Macro has:
Email inspired by Superhuman, with better AI for triaging ("Signal vs. Noise")
Notion-like documents with fast CRDT's instead of last-write-wins, @linked to everything
Messaging, like Slack, but more focused for deep work
Linear-like tasks but deeply integrated with channels, auto-created and auto-assigned
Video calls with Google Meet performance that are transcribed and added to your team
A unified brain for all of this, in one place, and much more
We've also chosen to be open source in order to keep customizability at the core of our company. You can check out the repo here https://github.com/macro-inc/macro and see what we're building in the Pull Requests tab.
Macro is an ambitious project. But that's also what makes it so useful and fun to work on.
Give it a try: https://macro.com/
The unified surface demos well, but the hard part is team memory respecting permissions at retrieval time. If I query 'the workspace' and the answer lives in a doc or DM I'm not on, does retrieval enforce ACLs per chunk, or is the index shared and you filter after? We built agent memory over mixed-permission sources and the lesson was that access control has to live inside retrieval, not the prompt, or the model will happily quote something the user was never allowed to see. Being open source makes that auditable, which is a real plus.
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@dipankar_sarkar Yea, there's no right answer and it's a hard problem. From a design perspective there's a couple options (i) let some LLM decide (ii) manually grant permissions at runtime (iii) the agent inherits permissions of some human. Four our case, at least for now, we've chosen ~3:the access control inherits from the user that launched the agent or that referenced them in the channel. This works pretty well and hasn't let to any embarrassments yet, since your agent is restricted to accessg things you have access to, it generally matches users' expectations and fails understandably.
Huge shoutout for going open source with this 👏 @jacob_beckerman qq Is there a native desktop app with global shortcuts for quick capture, or is everything running out of the browser for now?
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@vikramp7470 Thanks Vikram - we believe the successor to legacy SaaS will be an open, modular, extensible workspace. I also believe most startups die from apathy: the most important thing you have to do as a founder is make a dent in the universe. If we succeed in improving things for users, I'm confident this is a great business as well. And over time as Macro matures, it will be silly to use proprietary closed-source SaaS when there's a unified and open alternative.
Right now there's a mobile app that's native with Tauri, which we will also use to make the Mac and Windows apps eventually. For now it's browser-only on desktop - would this be a top priority for you? Personally I prefer email in a desktop app, so I see the use caee, but since Arc browser I'm mostly using we versions of apps, except sometimes Figma for local fonts.
How does the team-level memory actually work across all those different tools, especially for things like email threads from a few months back that I barely remember starting?
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@zehra6lwq Recall (in the sense of precision and recall) is a problem for all AI systems, and humans too ;). One of the biggest benefits of having all your workspace in one database (Macro) not spread across a bunch of apps is the unified memory aiding in recall. Macro's Unified Search tool available to the agent allows it to search through all content types, rather than having to execute multiple MCP calls, dedup resonses, order chronologically, then make more calls to further investigate. Of course, our approach saves cost (tokens) and time (tokens, again) but it also improves performance on these types of queries.
Shared memory is the hook here, but the trust boundary feels just as important. Can teams choose which channels, docs, or calls get added to agent memory, or is everything in the workspace queryable by default?
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@novamaker01 Great question. We have what we call Channel based permissions permissions (see https://docs.macro.com/product/channels) which means whenever you something in a channel is is auto-shared with participants. Compare that to, say, Notion + Slack or GDocs + Slack, where you need to also remember to manually share your link with everyone in the channel. Then, the memory system is built from your permissions because all Macro agents inherit your permissions; so memory includes all channels you're a part of, all email accounts connected, external services via MCP, and the text content of all channels, including Macro Calls aka standups/huddles spawned from those channels!
As I'm writing this, I'm realizing how important permissions is for building team-level memory. TBH we don't think about this much internally as we use Macro because it "just works". But yes, it would be a lot harder otherwise because you have no centralized permissions controller.
The shared memory part is the bit I’m most curious about. Feels like a lot of tools are getting better at storing more context, but more context is not always the same as useful context. How does Macro decide what is actually worth remembering? Is it mostly things I tell it to save, or does it start picking up patterns from how I work over time?
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@tobiasfleischer What is worth remembering? That's a good research topic! Probably, whatever is salient, especially in light of future requests you expect the user to make. For us, right now, it depends highly on what you connect and who you're working with. My memory system is mostly filled with biographical details, history of the company (Macro), and what things I prefer and don't in AI responses, who I work with and what they're the technical owners for, and some quite personal information about my partner and pets (picked up from my connected personal email) and family.
(if you want to know what Macro knows about you so far, you can ask for it's memory dumb - after using it for a few months mine is super impressive)
replacing 17 tools with one app is the pitch every all-in-one workspace makes, and it usually means each individual piece ends up 80% as good as the dedicated tool it replaced. what's actually best in class here vs just "good enough to not need Slack anymore" - email triage, docs, or something else
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@omri_ben_shoham1 I agree that historically you've had to choose between Let's run trough some comps of who's tried and why I think it went wrong. It's important to note that all of these attempts were pre-coding agents, so a reasonable answer to "why now" is "this problem [rebuilding the workspace] literally just became tractable". Of course, we started building Macro before coding agents, but they've allowed us to make progress on our roadmap much faster and expand our ambitious to more blocks.
Notion chose the wrong level of abstraction. Markdown docs and databases are super flexible but they're not as as good as purpose-built products. We ran our last company on it but had to migrate CRM and Tasks off of it as we scaled, leaving Notion hollowed out. Also, Notion really isn't an all-in-one, it's docs/notes/wikis and now agents. They just unshipped Notion Mail. They don't have calls, channels or mail. Their calendar is a different app that they acquired. So I think it's fair to say they're backing off the "all-in-one" pitch to focus on agents.
ClickUp figured out that most F500 teams can't discern slop from quality, and that sales matters more than product for that market. So they rapidly built an okay product with that market and layered sales and marketing. They never won with taste-makers and startups. They're super closed source, and not even as friendly as Notion when it comes to dev extensibility. But they were the only game in town for the all-in-one pitch. But still, to my knowledge, no email client integrated? That's an important part because it's where customer requests come in and it's the main comms channel for sales, customer support, etc.
Coda was like Notion but expanded a bit too quickly IMO whereas Notion stayed focused on docs, wikis and tasks for longer. Coda never won the mindshare that Notion got with solo users (and then lost to Obsidian a few years later, as they enshitified and moved upmarket).
Quip was a great mid-2010s attempt at this from Brett Taylor. I've asked a few people why this didn't go as planned and I'm not so sure why. They did spreadsheets, unlike Notion, and channels and it was pretty sleek. It got adopted by some big companies. Perhaps it was mismanaged by SFDC, I'm not sure. It had a very different vibe than Macro IIRC, it wasn't as good as the standalone tools, it was more of a light version of docs, spreadsheets, etc.
TL;DR: Macro is the only tool that doesn't make you choose. You get (i) best-in-class blocks (notes, email, etc.) as well as full integration across the suite. Coding agents are what make building this feasible.
See https://macro.com/posts/ for some more info about how we've designed Macro and how it compares to what came before it, and how those tools inspired/informed us!
@omri_ben_shoham1 @jacob_beckerman I've lived in.. evernote to one note to Notion, gmail, outlook and now superhuman, between those and all the new latest AI iterations (I have no resistance to changing what I use, just resistance to even more client bifurcation and having to look everywhere) I have multiple email addresses in superhuman and still can't get them all in (for a single pro user). Additionally I'm constantly revisiting the gmail interface as I simply don't feel like I saw everything or that I even know where superhuman has put it. I've tried playing with the Notion AI as well. To date I haven't found a reasonable CRM (to the point that even hubspot suggested attio as I'm a sole user, not a team. If the outlook logins come online will a single "User" instance, be able to handle a multiplicity of emails/notion style projects and import the previous notion data as well as integrations for all my google drive info that's older but still very useful? These are the worries I have each time I see a new shiny item. It feels closest to what I want and need, but at this point I'm so gun-shy due to everyone's "We have all the things".. but it's really.. "we will when we get it all running.. which will be..." then they sort of trail off... I hope you can do it and pull it all together as well as run good instances for mobile (iOS AND Android). For those of use that have to use and run all the things, it's still such a mess. I can't wait to use it to assist my tiny adhd addled brain in being slightly more unified in my operations. Thanks! Here's to it all happening!