AI chief of staff
Your AI chief of staff.It does the follow-through. You make the calls.
Bumblebee is an AI executive assistant for founders, CXOs and the people who run their teams. It reads your inbox and calendar, gets you ready for meetings, remembers what everyone promised, and turns a sentence into a deck or a finished errand. Nothing goes out in your name unless you have said yes to it.
Bumblebee is in a closed alpha. Sign in with your email; if you are not invited yet, you join the waitlist and we write when a place opens.
What it does
What can I hand over?
The work a good chief of staff does: the inbox, the meetings on either side, the documents, the errands. Most people start with their inbox or tomorrow's meetings.
AI chief of staff
Hand over ongoing work, like the board or your inbox, and it keeps at it between conversations.
See howAI email assistant
Tells you what needs you, drafts replies in your style and clears out the newsletters, with your OK.
See howAI meeting prep
A short brief about 30 minutes before each meeting: who is coming, what is open, what to have ready.
See howAI meeting follow-up
Drafts the recap when a meeting ends, keeps track of every promise, and nudges when replies stall.
See howMorning brief
Your day on one card each morning, plus routines and reminders that run on your schedule.
See howDecks, documents and sheets
Ask for a deck, a one-pager or a spreadsheet in a sentence and get a finished file back.
See howErrands on the web
It uses websites for you, hands you the sign-ins and payments, and asks before it submits anything.
See howTalk to it
Tap the mic and delegate out loud. What you say lands in the same conversation as everything you type.
See howMemory you can see
It remembers your people, projects and promises, and shows you where every fact came from.
See how
How it works
How does Bumblebee work?
You talk to it in one long conversation, by typing or by voice, on whatever device is in your hand. It connects to your Google account, does the work in the background, and comes back to that same conversation with results, questions and anything that needs your OK.
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Sign in and name it
Pick a name, a face and a voice for your assistant, then tell it what you're working on. Setup takes about five minutes.
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Connect Google
Give it your Gmail, calendar and contacts, and a place in your Drive to save what it makes. Within minutes it has read the last 30 days and can tell you what's waiting on you.
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Hand things over
Ask in plain words. Longer jobs run in the background while you keep talking, and each result comes back as a reply to the message that asked for it.
Trust
Does it send anything without asking?
Not unless you tell it to. Out of the box, every email, calendar change, unsubscribe and web form waits on an approval card that shows exactly what will happen. You can approve a whole plan at once, edit it first, or say no, and a send can be undone for ten seconds. If you would rather it got on with one kind of thing, such as answering meeting invitations, you can add a rule in Settings. It then goes ahead within that rule and shows you what it did, but it still asks whenever an email or a web page shaped what it is about to do.
It never sees your passwords
When a website wants you to sign in, you type into a secure form that goes straight to the site. Codes work the same way, and paying is always yours to do.
You can read its memory
A Memory page lists what it knows about you and where each fact came from. Correct anything, forget anything, or pause it for a while.
Emails can't give it orders
Whatever an email, web page or document says, your assistant reads it as information. It acts on what you ask and nothing else.
Quiet unless it matters
Things that can wait are held for your morning brief. It keeps to your quiet hours and only interrupts when something needs you.
Every device
Where can I use it?
In a web browser on your laptop or phone, today. It installs to your home screen like an app, and you can talk to it out loud in the web app. Phone apps, a desktop app and a speaker are coming, and they'll all open onto the same conversation.
Web app
AvailableEverything Bumblebee does, in any modern browser.
On your phone
AvailableAdd it to your home screen from the browser and turn on notifications.
Voice
AvailableTap the mic in the web app and talk. Cut in whenever you like.
Speaker
In developmentA desk speaker that answers in two sentences and puts the details in your app.
iPhone and Android apps
PlannedLock-screen approvals and a widget for your day.
Desktop app
PlannedA shortcut to ask from anywhere on your computer.
Who it's for
Who is Bumblebee for?
Senior people with a full calendar and a fuller inbox, who already delegate to people and have no wish to set up software. If you'd hand it to a great executive assistant, you can hand it to Bumblebee.
Founders and CXOs
Back-to-back meetings and a couple of hundred emails a day. It tells you what needs you, drafts the replies you'd write, and makes sure nothing you promised slips.
VPs and directors
You run a function and report up. It chases your team and partners, builds the weekly report or deck, and sums up what happened.
Managers who keep things moving
Status updates, reminders, chasing people for answers, keeping documents in order. The parts of the job that eat an afternoon.
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Questions people ask
What is Bumblebee?
Bumblebee is an AI chief of staff: one assistant you talk to in a single ongoing conversation, by typing or by voice. It connects to your Google account, keeps track of your work over days and weeks, and does the follow-through, asking for your approval before anything goes out unless you have set a rule that lets it go ahead.
How is it different from a chatbot?
A chatbot waits for a question. Bumblebee takes on work that lasts: it notices replies you owe, has a brief ready before your meetings, runs routines on a schedule and comes back with results. It's connected to your mail and calendar, it remembers your people and projects, and there is one conversation instead of a pile of chats.
Can it send email for me?
Yes, once you approve. It drafts replies in your style and saves them in your Gmail Drafts. When you say send, a card shows every email in full, you can untick any of them, and you have ten seconds to undo. You can also add a rule in Settings that lets it send one narrow kind of email without asking.
Does it work with Outlook or Microsoft 365?
Not yet. Today it connects to Google: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and Google Drive for saving the files it makes. Microsoft support is on the list, without a date.
How do I get access?
Sign in at app.askbumblebee.com with your email address. If you've been invited, you're in straight away. If not, you join the waitlist and we'll email you when a place opens.
How much does it cost?
Bumblebee is in a closed alpha and pricing has not been published. Write to hello@askbumblebee.com if you want to know more.
Who makes Bumblebee?
BA Tools makes Bumblebee. You can reach the team at hello@askbumblebee.com.
Hand it the first thing on your list.
Sign in, give your assistant a name and tell it what you're working on. It takes about five minutes.
Bumblebee is in a closed alpha. Sign in with your email; if you are not invited yet, you join the waitlist and we write when a place opens.