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Introducing +beya: Your Digital Employee, Now in Gmail

Meet +beya — summon Beya inside any Gmail thread with your own +beya address. No new app. CC and go.

Laptop open to an email inbox on a desk

Most AI tools ask you to open another tab. +beya shows up in the inbox you already live in.

If you run a brand, you already know the truth: the real work happens in email. Customer questions. Supplier threads. Shopify issues. Ops follow-ups. The same conversations that used to wait for you to open a dashboard, copy context into ChatGPT, and paste an answer back.

+beya flips that. You summon Beya by putting your own address with a tiny tag — you+beya@yourdomain.com — on the email. Gmail delivers it to your inbox like normal. Beya reads the thread, jumps in, and works from there.

No new app. No new habit. Just CC and go.

What +beya actually is

+beya is Beya's email agent. It lives inside your connected Gmail account and joins threads when you invite it.

That invitation is intentional on purpose. Beya does not read your entire mailbox and chime in uninvited. You decide when it enters a conversation — the same way you'd loop in a teammate.

Once it's on a thread, it can:

  • Answer questions using your connected business systems
  • Draft and send replies in the thread
  • Help you connect tools like Shopify when you ask
  • Keep context on the conversation so follow-ups stay useful

You stay in Gmail. Beya works beside you.

How the summon works

Gmail already supports plus-addressing. If your email is alex@brand.com, then alex+beya@brand.com still lands in the same inbox.

+beya uses that built-in behavior as the summon signal:

  1. Connect Gmail to Beya (one-time setup)
  2. Save the "Beya" contact it creates for you — or just remember your +beya address
  3. CC or To your name+beya@… address on any thread where you want help
  4. Beya picks it up, reacts so you know it saw the message, and replies in-thread

That is the whole product motion. If you can CC someone, you can use +beya.

Why this matters for operators

Founders and ecommerce teams do not have a shortage of AI chat windows. They have a shortage of presence where the work already is.

Email is where customers ask about orders. Where vendors negotiate lead times. Where your team forwards "can you check this?" at 9pm. Every hop out of that thread costs context, time, and momentum.

+beya keeps the loop short:

  • The customer stays on the same thread
  • Your systems stay connected behind the scenes
  • You do not have to re-explain the situation in another product

It feels less like "using an AI tool" and more like having an employee who finally joined the email chain.

What a first day with +beya looks like

Morning: A customer asks about a delayed order. You CC your +beya address and write "can you look this up?" Beya pulls context from your connected store and drafts a clear reply in the thread.

Afternoon: You need Shopify connected. You email yourself (or reply on a +beya thread): "I want to connect Shopify." Beya sends a secure connect link. You authorize. Done.

Evening: A long supplier thread needs a concise next step. You summon Beya again. It catches up and helps you move the conversation forward without opening five tabs.

The pattern is the same every time: invite, ask, stay in Gmail.

Getting started

  1. Go to usebeya.com/start/plus-beya
  2. Create your account and connect Gmail
  3. Copy your personal +beya address from the success screen
  4. Send a quick "hi" to that address — or CC it on a real thread

If you already use Beya on the web, +beya is the same teammate, now reachable from the inbox.

A note on trust

+beya is summoned, not ambient. You choose the threads. You can revoke Gmail access anytime. Replies come from your connected mailbox so the conversation stays yours — with Beya acting as the digital employee on the thread.

That design is intentional. An AI that lives in email should earn every invite.

Try it

Your inbox already runs the business. Now it can run with a teammate inside it.

Get started with +beya →