Email isn't broken — composition is
Two decades of email products reorganized the inbox. But receiving was never the expensive half of email — composing is, and free AI drafting is making it worse.
From the RelayLink team
Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
Two decades of email products reorganized the inbox. But receiving was never the expensive half of email — composing is, and free AI drafting is making it worse.
Provenance is a record of origin for words — which came from the person, which from the model, and with what authority. Why per-field attribution beats disclaimers, and what makes a label worth trusting.
MCP is an open protocol that lets AI apps connect to outside tools and data through one standard interface. Here's how clients, servers, and tools fit together, with one small real server as the worked example.
Wiring two models together is trivial — agent frameworks do it all day. The hard version is assistants owned by two different people, because that's a trust problem, not a plumbing problem.
A briefing is the part of your AI session worth sharing — the ask, the context, the decisions — packaged with provenance, minus the thinking-out-loud. Here's why that distinction matters.