DataCat
The chief of staff that never sleeps.
Datadog keeps your platform running. DataCat keeps you running.
The Problem
Hundreds of Slack messages. Dozens of emails. Back-to-back meetings with no context. Important commitments falling through the cracks. Sound familiar?
500+
messages a day
Across Slack, email, and messages. The important ones are buried.
12
meetings daily
Back-to-back with no prep time and no context on what happened since.
3
things forgotten
Commitments that slipped. Delegations nobody tracked. Promises unkept.
How It Works
Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, iCloud, iMessage — unified into a single stream. No manual entry. No copy-pasting between apps.
Who matters to you. What topics are hot. What to surface and what to ignore. Esme adapts from your real engagement — not settings pages.
Morning briefings. Pre-meeting context. Evening summaries. Urgent escalations. The right information at the right time.
Inbox Intelligence
Esme reads every email, knows what matters, and tracks action items across email, Slack, and meetings. When you reply, she automatically closes the loop — no manual tracking required.
Q3 Pipeline Review — updated deck attached
Re: Architecture decision — event sourcing
[datacat/core] PR #847: Fix auth token refresh
FY27 budget kickoff — can we move to Tuesday?
Esme's Take
“Sarah flagged the EMEA shortfall — this ties to your board prep Thursday”
Action Items
Review Sarah's pipeline deck
✉ You replied with feedback at 10:15 AM
Get architecture recommendation from David
💬 David responded via email — option B
Approve vendor MSA changes
✉ Waiting on legal review
Send board prep to CFO
📅 Due Thursday — deck is 80% done
Draft Ready
Esme learned your reply style from 2,847 sent emails.
To: Lisa Martinez
Tuesday 2pm works. I'll send the pre-read Monday evening. Can you share the updated headcount numbers before then?
Voice Interface
Full-duplex conversation with low-latency streaming. Like having your EA on a call whenever you need her — not a voice command interface, an actual conversation.
Esme, what do I need to know before my 2pm with the CFO?
Three things. First, Lisa moved the FY27 budget kickoff to Tuesday — she needs your headcount numbers. Second, the EMEA pipeline is down 12% from Sarah's latest deck. Third, David's team is recommending event sourcing for the platform rewrite — that has budget implications you'll want to flag.
Perfect. Can you draft a pre-read with those three points?
Done. I've shared it with the CFO's EA and cc'd you. I also added the pipeline chart from Sarah's deck — it tells the story faster than text. Want me to schedule 15 minutes for you to review it before the meeting?
Knowledge Base
Esme builds a rich, structured knowledge base from everything that flows through your day — emails, Slack, meetings, documents. Projects, people, initiatives, domains — each gets a living document with current status, timeline, key decisions, open questions, and tensions. You never create or update a page. It just appears.
At night, Esme dreams — reorganizing memory, polishing, combining, splitting, archiving, and deduplicating. Topics connect to each other automatically: projects link to people, initiatives link to domains, and the whole graph stays current without you touching it.
Waiting for night cycle
147
Topics
23
Updated
8
Archived
Every document auto-generates from real conversations and data. You never write a page — Esme creates, updates, and links them for you.
Every Topic Includes
Select a topic — Document
Click a node in the graph to explore its document
Topic Types
Organizational Oversight
Esme tracks every initiative across your organization — who owns it, where it stands, what's at risk, and what needs your attention. No status meetings required.
Platform Rewrite
Architecture decision pending — blocking v2.4 launch
Platform Rewrite
At RiskArchitecture decision pending — blocking v2.4 launch
FY27 Budget
CFO review round 1 complete, EMEA revision in progress
FY27 Budget
On TrackCFO review round 1 complete, EMEA revision in progress
EMEA Expansion
Pipeline down 12% — revised targets due Friday
EMEA Expansion
At RiskPipeline down 12% — revised targets due Friday
Series C Prep
Data room 80% complete, deck in final review
Series C Prep
On TrackData room 80% complete, deck in final review
Engineering Hiring
3 of 8 roles filled — no senior SRE candidates in pipeline
Engineering Hiring
Behind3 of 8 roles filled — no senior SRE candidates in pipeline
Product Launch v2.4
Waiting on platform team for API changes
Product Launch v2.4
BlockedWaiting on platform team for API changes
SOC 2 Compliance
Audit scheduled March 10, all controls mapped
SOC 2 Compliance
On TrackAudit scheduled March 10, all controls mapped
Esme's Weekly Briefing
“Two things need you this week. The platform rewrite is blocking Rachel's v2.4 launch — David's team needs the architecture decision by Wednesday or the release slips to April. And engineering hiring is falling behind: Mike has no senior SRE candidates in pipeline. Should I set up time with the recruiter to discuss broadening the search?”
Capabilities
Morning prep, evening review, pre-meeting context. The right information surfaces at exactly the right time — without you asking.
Conflicts, reschedules, prep time — Esme manages your calendar proactively. She resolves double-bookings, protects focus blocks, and makes sure you're never blindsided.
“Can you get me that by Friday?” Esme hears it, tracks it across Slack and email, and nudges you when it's overdue.
Need a competitive analysis or a deep-dive on a vendor? Esme researches thoroughly, synthesizes findings, and delivers a structured brief.
From board prep to team updates — Esme drafts decks from your real data, conversations, and knowledge base. Always on brand — she knows your company's guidelines.
Focus, deep work, busyness, mood — measured from real behavioral data across your tools, not self-reported surveys.
Remembers your preferences, tracks your commitments, and consolidates overnight. A memory that reorganizes itself while you sleep.
Every week, Esme shows you where your time actually went — which topics, projects, and people consumed your attention, and what moved forward.
Not A Chatbot
Esme isn't a sycophantic AI that says “Great question!” to everything. She's direct, opinionated, and occasionally funny. Like a chief of staff who's been with you for years.
“That meeting could have been an email. I drafted one for you.”
“Your VP pinged about Project Atlas — sounds urgent. Want me to pull context?”
“You told Sarah you'd review that doc by Thursday. It's Wednesday.”
“You've got 20 minutes before your next call. Good window to clear those two Slack threads.”
Personal Metrics
Five dimensions of productivity, measured from real behavioral data across your tools. No journals. No self-assessments. Just signal.
Focus
+8% this week
Output
+3% this week
Deep Work
-5% this week
Mood
+12% this week
Busyness
+2% this week
Esme's Daily Read
“Strong focus recovery this week — your context-switching dropped 30% after Tuesday's calendar cleanup. Deep work took a hit from the board prep, but mood is trending up. Consider protecting Thursday morning for that architecture review.”
Computed every 15 minutes from Slack, email, calendar, and task data. No new tracking tools required — Esme uses what you already have.
Built For Leaders
CTOs, VPs, founders — anyone juggling dozens of projects, hundreds of people, and thousands of messages. Esme was built for the kind of person whose brain is always running at capacity.
Work and personal, Slack and iCloud, meetings and messages — one assistant sees it all.
Tell Esme what she missed or what didn't matter. She adjusts. Permanently.
No training on your conversations. Ever. Sensitive classification runs on local models. Cloud or on-prem — you choose.
No dashboards to configure, no rules to write. Esme figures it out from how you actually work.
Security
Esme sees the most sensitive parts of your work life — your messages, your calendar, your email. We built the security model around that responsibility, not as an afterthought.
Your conversations, messages, and documents are never used to train models. Not ours. Not anyone's. Period.
AES-256 at rest. TLS 1.3 in transit. Database credentials rotated automatically. Secrets never touch disk unencrypted.
Message urgency and sensitivity scoring runs on local models — your raw messages never leave your infrastructure for triage.
Every DataCat instance is fully isolated — dedicated database, dedicated compute, dedicated encryption keys. No shared infrastructure.
Esme requests only the OAuth scopes it needs — read-only where possible. You control exactly which integrations are active.
Every LLM call, tool invocation, and data access is logged. Full observability into what Esme did and why — nothing is a black box.
No data is ever sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any third-party AI provider.
Every deployment option runs models within your security boundary.
Cloud
We host and operate your dedicated Esme instance. Single-tenant infrastructure, automatic updates, encrypted backups, and 24/7 monitoring. You get the full experience without managing servers.
Your Cloud
Deploy Esme into your own AWS, Azure, or GCP account. All processing stays within your cloud boundary — nothing phones home. You maintain full network control while we provide the software and support.
On-Premise
Run Esme entirely within your own network. Full control over data residency, network policies, and access. Ideal for organizations with strict compliance requirements.
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