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Pidgy is an AI email assistant for school offices and student administrations. It sorts the inbox before you open it, counts the days on every form a parent has not returned and every reply a student is still waiting for, drafts the answer in your words, and turns what a teacher promised in a thread into work the office can see.

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Today 4 of 16 done

Good morning.

Monday, 14 September

7 waiting on you·38 waiting on parents·Trip consent closes Friday

FocusWaiting
MVParent asking why the absence was not excused, second email1dReply window
3BTrip consent forms, 11 still missing9dCloses Friday
TMTeacher sent the exam timetable, publish it1dReturned
STStudent asked about the enrolment deadline2dReply
77 replies drafted · 14 stale follow-ups · 263 to triage

Illustrative data from no real school

A working week, on average

EmailThe actual work
120+

business emails a day, per person. Perhaps six change what you do.

Radicati Group, Email Statistics Report
23 min

to get back to what you were doing after one interruption.

Mark, Gudith and Klocke, UC Irvine, 2008
28%

of the working week goes to email, before any real work is opened.

McKinsey Global Institute, The social economy, 2012

Three audiences, one address, and all of them are waiting.

A parent writes about an absence. A teacher forwards a question about the trip. A student asks when enrolment closes and copies in their mother. Each one writes to the same office address, and each one expects an answer by tonight.

It is that nothing counts the days on a consent form, or on the medical certificate a parent promised, or on the question a student asked before a deadline that does not move. Two hundred and sixty a day in September, and the one that goes wrong is the one a parent remembers.

Pidgy does not teach.

Four things it does before you have opened anything.

NLTeaching tips newsletter, this weekNewsletter
SWYour school platform: weekly digestNotification
Parent asking why the absence was not excused ~10mSecond emailVermeersch, class 3B
Trip consent forms, 11 still missing ~5m9 days waitingCloses Friday
RNRelease notes: timetable moduleNotification
WBWebinar: digital wellbeing in schoolsNewsletter

You only see what matters

Two hundred and sixty a day in September, and the ones that matter are the ones with a parent or a deadline behind them.

Parents, class 3BTrip consent forms, 11 missing9dFollow up
VermeerschMedical certificate for last week6dFollow up
Mr ClaesConfirm the exam room booking2dToo soon
Follow up · Parents, class 3BDrafted

Dear parents, a short reminder about the consent form for the trip to Ghent on 26 September. We need it back by Friday to confirm the coach. A reply to this email with your child's name and yes is enough.

SendReady when you are

Follow-ups sorted for you

Which parent owes which form, which teacher owes which confirmation, how many days, and the reminder already written in your words. You press send.

LVFrom Lies VermeerschParent, class 3B · yesterday evening

Absence last Thursday, and the trip

Sorry for the late reply. The doctor's note is attached. Also, can Noor still join the trip if we pay the deposit this week? I saw the deadline is Friday. She would be very sad to miss it.

Publish the exam timetable
Confirm whether Noor can still join the trip with a late depositBefore FridayLies VermeerschClass 3B
Chase the 11 consent forms
Medical certificate received

Emails become tasks

Who is asking, what for, and by when, lifted out of a parent's evening email and put on the list with the deadline and the class attached.

LVMedical certificate, Noor V.Parent document
3BConsent form, trip to GhentConsent
TMExam timetable, first termStaff
STEnrolment question, deadlineStudent
MNMinistry circular, absencesOfficial
NLTeaching tipsNewsletter

Emails categorised for you

Parent documents, consent forms, staff, student questions, official circulars, newsletters. Labelled on arrival, so the medical certificate is one click, not a search.

Illustrative data from no real school

And then the rest of the day.

Four more things Pidgy does between an email landing and the term ending.

  1. Replies

    Three ways to answer it. Or your own words.

    Every thread that needs a reply gets three, and they are the three things you would most plausibly say back given what the parent or the student asked.

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    Reply to Lies Vermeersch

    “Can Noor still join the trip if we pay the deposit this week? I saw the deadline is Friday.” Lies Vermeersch, yesterday evening

    Three likely answers click one

    Yes, with the form by Friday
    Check with the teacher first
    Explain the coach cut-off
    Write it yourselfAlways available
    Selected draft Edit

    Dear Mrs Vermeersch, yes. If the signed consent form and the deposit are with us by Friday, Noor is on the list. Reply to this email with your yes and bring the form to the office; the deposit can go by transfer.

    SendYou press it
  2. Contacts

    You already know who never answers. Now you can prove it.

    Every parent, teacher and student becomes a contact, with how long they usually take, how often they opened the conversation, and what is still outstanding. When a parent says nobody told them, the record of who wrote when is already there.

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    LV
    Lies VermeerschParent, Noor in class 3B
    Usually replies in5 days
    Answered first3 of 7
    Open with her2

    Who replied first

    LVAbsence last Thursday, and the trip13 Sep
    YouMedical certificate, reminder8 Sep
    YouWelcome to the school year1 Sep
  3. Ask Pidgy

    Or just ask it.

    “Which parents in 3B have not returned the consent form?” is a question the office answers today by counting paper. Pidgy answers it with the threads, and notices when the class teacher usually handles that family.

    Start for free →

    Ask Pidgy

    Which parents in 3B have not returned the consent form?

    Pidgy

    Eleven of twenty-four. The ones who have not opened the email at all:

    Consent form, trip to Ghent · class 3BSent 5 September · 9 days, 11 no replyOpen
    PCMr Claes is the class teacher. Hand him the reminder?Delegate
    Ask anything about your mailbox→
  4. Plan mode

    Your day on one side, the work on the other.

    You drag one into the other, and a week with report cards, a trip and a parents' evening in it looks that way on Monday.

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    Plan mode click a task

    Unscheduled

    Chase the 11 consent forms10m
    Noor and the late deposit5m
    Publish the exam timetable20m

    Wednesday

    Staff briefing
    Drop a task here
    Parent meeting, Vermeersch
    Drop a task here
    Enrolment desk
    Wednesday has two free hours. Three tasks want them.

Illustrative data from no real school

Before you let anything near a client mailbox.

You click send

Pidgy drafts. It has no permission to send on your behalf, and there is no setting that grants one.

Hosted in the EU

Data residency in the EU, scoped per mailbox, DPA on request. Export or purge whenever you want.

It never deletes

Nothing is archived, moved, marked read or thrown away. Your mailbox is exactly where you left it.

Never trains on you

Correspondence builds your lists and your drafts. It is never used to train a model, ours or anyone else's.

Questions school offices ask

What does it cost?+

Free to start, and no credit card is asked for. Paid plans are per mailbox, monthly, and you can see them before you connect anything.

This is data about children. Is that allowed?+

That is the right first question. Processing happens in the EU, scoped to the mailboxes you connect, under a data processing agreement we sign with the school. Mail is never used to train a model. We put our sub-processors and the model provider in writing so your data protection officer can review it before anything is connected.

Does it see Smartschool or our student platform?+

No, by design. Pidgy reads the office mailbox and nothing else. Grades, attendance and the platform messages are invisible to it. It helps with the part that still lands in the mailbox: parents, external contacts and everything that arrives as an attachment.

Can teachers use it on their own mailbox?+

Each person connects their own mailbox and sees their own lists. A teacher sees the parents who wrote to them; the office sees the office address. Nobody sees anyone else's mail. Pidgy never widens access.

Does it answer parents by itself?+

No. It drafts, you send. There is no send permission and no setting that grants one. With a parent, that is exactly the point.

Does it work in Dutch, French and English?+

Yes. It reads mixed language mailboxes and drafts in the language of the thread, which for a school with international families is all three.

Start for free. No credit card needed.

Connect the office mailbox you already use and see it sorted this afternoon. Nothing is sent without you.

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