Can an agent replace Superhuman?
A fast email client on top of Gmail or Outlook, sold on keyboard shortcuts, triage speed and AI drafting.
Yes. Superhuman sells speed at a task you should be doing less of. An agent triages, drafts and archives inside plain Gmail; the €30 a month bought keystrokes, not the mail. Your email was never in Superhuman anyway.
- Indicative spend
- €150/mo
- What it actually costs
- €30/user/mo, no cheaper tier
- Verdict
- The product was the labour. An agent and somewhere to put the data covers it.
What the agent takes over
Every job this product exists to perform, with our verdict on each. Follow one through for the step-by-step breakdown.
- Admin and back officeMostly. The inbox triage, the filing, the chasing, the scheduling, the form-filling — an agent does the great majority of what a competent assistant does. What it lacks is knowing which of your relationships need care.MOSTLY
- SalesHalf, and the halves are unequal. An agent does the research, the outreach, the follow-up and the admin — roughly two-thirds of a salesperson’s week. It does not do discovery, negotiation, or the part where someone decides to trust you.HALF
Why it does not survive
None. The mail lives in Gmail; Superhuman rents you speed at labour an agent now performs.
What you would still need it for
- The keyboard feel, if you genuinely process hundreds of mails by hand every day
What replaces it
- An agent triaging, drafting and archiving in the account itself
- Spend the €30 on model usage instead
The brief
What you would tell an agent to take over from Superhuman, assembled from the jobs above.
I want to cancel Superhuman. It currently does: A fast email client on top of Gmail or Outlook, sold on keyboard shortcuts, triage speed and AI drafting. Take over this work: - Admin and back office — MOSTLY. Mostly. The inbox triage, the filing, the chasing, the scheduling, the form-filling — an agent does the great majority of what a competent assistant does. What it lacks is knowing which of your relationships need care. - Sales — HALF. Half, and the halves are unequal. An agent does the research, the outreach, the follow-up and the admin — roughly two-thirds of a salesperson’s week. It does not do discovery, negotiation, or the part where someone decides to trust you. Do not take over: - The keyboard feel, if you genuinely process hundreds of mails by hand every day These stay with me across all of it: - Sensitive communication - Anything that spends money - Deciding what matters this week - Discovery conversations - Negotiation - Pricing exceptions - Any relationship worth more than the deal in front of you Before we start, tell me: which of these you cannot do with the access I can actually give you, and what would break if this ran unattended for a month. — brief built at cananagentdo.com/superhuman
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Replace Superhuman
That is €150 a month back, and one fewer login. The work is connecting an agent to the systems Superhuman was sitting between.
Build the replacementPrices are indicative list rates for a small team and change often — check yours before cancelling anything.