Shortwave vs Seventh Sense

Shortwave is an AI email client built by former Google engineers that wraps Gmail with inbox organization tools and an agent you can prompt to search, write, schedule, and filter mail. It runs on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows and syncs with Gmail accounts. The app positions itself as a spiritual successor to Google Inbox, with bundles, splits, and keyboard shortcuts at the center of daily triage.

Most Gmail add-ons bolt on one feature. Shortwave treats the whole inbox as a workflow surface: you triage with bundles and todos first, then ask the agent to draft replies, run natural language search across years of mail, or spin up filters written in plain English. That combo of Inbox-style organization plus a prompt-driven assistant sets it apart from Superhuman-style speed clients and basic AI summarizers.

Sales reps, founders, and support leads use it to split high-priority threads, track read receipts, and share live threads with teammates without pasting screenshots into Slack. Teams on Gmail who miss Inbox bundles or want calendar-aware scheduling from inside mail tend to stick with it once they adopt the Shortwave Method triage flow.

Seventh Sense is an email performance layer for HubSpot and Marketo that schedules each message to the individual contact's best open time. It connects to your existing marketing automation stack and adds send-time optimization, audience recycling, campaign orchestration caps, and deliverability insights without replacing your ESP.

Most send-time tools pick one window for the whole list. Seventh Sense profiles each contact, suppresses worn-out subscribers, and coordinates sends across campaigns so you stop colliding with your own emails. The Business plan includes all four AI capabilities, unlimited users, and engagement profiles written back to HubSpot CRM records.

Seventh Sense has served HubSpot and Marketo customers since 2014 and reports 500M+ personalized emails orchestrated monthly. Marketing teams at financial, energy, consulting, and pharma brands use it when batch-and-blast fatigue is hurting inbox placement.