Web studios

The build is done. The About page is not.

Pidgy is an AI email assistant for web studios. It sorts the studio inbox before you open it, counts the days on every piece of content and every approval a client owes, drafts the reminder in your words, and turns the change requests buried in a feedback email into work the team can see.

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Gmail and OutlookYou click sendEU data residency

Today 4 of 13 done

Good morning.

Tuesday, 10 November

6 waiting on you·23 waiting on clients·Two launches this month

FocusWaitingProjects
HLClient wants to go live Friday, About page copy still missing1dLaunch Friday
GRProduct photos, still not delivered21dHolds the shop
DVDNS access received, schedule the switch1dReturned
MTClient asked what the hosting includes2dReply
66 replies drafted · 13 stale follow-ups · 227 to triage

Illustrative data from no real studio

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

The site is finished. The client is not.

The build was signed off in October. What did not arrive is the About page copy, the product photos, the privacy text from their lawyer, and the DNS access. Each asked for, each mentioned again, each holding the launch.

It is that nothing in the studio counts the days a client has had a request. When the launch slips, the record of whose delay it was is a scroll through sent items.

Pidgy does not build the site.

Four things it does before you have opened anything.

NLFramework release: what changedNewsletter
HSYour hosting invoice is readyNotification
About page copy still missing, launch Friday ~5mLaunch FridayHelder Living
Product photos, still not delivered ~3m21 days waitingHolds the shop
RNCMS release notes 3.4Notification
WBWebinar: accessibility auditsNewsletter

You only see what matters

Two hundred and thirty a day, and the ones that matter are the ones with a launch behind them.

GroenrijkProduct photos, asked twice21dFollow up
Helder LivingAbout page copy8dFollow up
Mertens TandartsenPrivacy text from their lawyer3dToo soon
Follow up · GroenrijkDrafted

Dear Bart, a short reminder about the product photos for the shop. The build is ready and waiting on them. If the shoot is not happening, send me the ones from your old site and we go live with those.

SendReady when you are

Follow-ups sorted for you

Which client owes which content, how many days, and the reminder already written in your words. You press send.

HLFrom Sanne VermeulenHelder Living · yesterday

Feedback on the staging site

Looks great. Three small things: the logo is too small in the header, the contact form should go to info@ instead of my address, and can you add a newsletter sign-up to the footer before we go live Friday?

Enlarge the header logo
Add a newsletter sign-up to the footerBefore FridaySanne VermeulenHelder Living
Route the contact form to info@
DNS access received

Emails become tasks

Three small things in a feedback email become three tasks, each with the deadline and the client attached, and none of them lost in the thread.

HLFeedback, staging siteClient feedback
GRProduct photos, 3 of 40Client content
DVDNS access detailsAccess
MTSigned proposal, redesignContract
INInvoice, milestone 2Invoice
NLFramework releaseNewsletter

Emails categorised for you

Client feedback, client content, access details, contracts, invoices, releases. Labelled on arrival, so the DNS details are one click, not a search.

Illustrative data from no real studio

And then the rest of the day.

Five more things Pidgy does between an email landing and the site going live.

  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 client asked.

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    Reply to Sanne Vermeulen

    “Can we add a blog before launch? My brother says every site needs one.” Sanne Vermeulen, this morning

    Three likely answers click one

    Launch first, blog after
    Ask what it is for
    Scope it honestly
    Write it yourselfAlways available
    Selected draft Edit

    Dear Sanne, yes, and I would launch Friday without it and add it in the two weeks after. A blog with no posts on launch day looks worse than no blog, and it gives you time to write two.

    SendYou press it
  2. For your client

    A list, not a login.

    Clients get a link to their own missing content and open approvals, which they can finish from a phone.

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    Helder Living, before Friday2 open
    About page copyA Word document is fineUpload
    Team photosThree, landscapeUpload
    Logo filesReceived
    DNS accessReceived
  3. Projects

    And it adds up to a picture.

    Every site becomes a project: what content has arrived, what has not, what feedback is open, and the launch date.

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    Projects, created for you

    Groenrijk, shop5 open
    Helder Living, launchYou

    AI summary

    Build complete. Open: About page copy 8 days outstanding, three feedback items from yesterday, DNS switch to schedule. Launch Friday.

    85%Ready

    Timeline

    DNS access received
    About page copy requested

    Tasks

    Footer sign-upTV
    Chase About copySV
    Mertens Tandartsen3 open
  4. Plan mode

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

    You drag one into the other, and a week with two launches in it looks that way on Monday.

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    Plan mode click a task

    Unscheduled

    Newsletter sign-up in the footer1h
    Route the contact form10m
    Enlarge the header logo15m

    Wednesday

    Stand-up
    Drop a task here
    Groenrijk, shop review
    Drop a task here
    Client call, Mertens
    Wednesday has two free hours. Three tasks want them.
  5. Ask Pidgy

    Or just ask it.

    “What is Helder Living still waiting on from us?” is a question you answer today by reading forty messages.

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    Ask Pidgy

    What is Helder Living still waiting on from us?

    Pidgy

    Three items from yesterday's feedback, and one from us to them:

    About page copy · Helder LivingYou asked 2 November · 8 days, no replyOpen
    TVTine is the developer on this site. Hand her the feedback items?Delegate
    Ask anything about your mailbox

Illustrative data from no real studio

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 studios ask

What does it cost?+

Per mailbox, monthly, published when we open to everyone. The first group is free. Asking for a place costs nothing and connects nothing.

Does it replace our project board?+

It replaces the part nobody keeps up to date: what the client was asked for, when, and whether it came back. The board, the repo and the staging site stay where they are.

Does it touch the sites we build?+

No. It reads your mailbox and nothing else. It does not log into a CMS, a host or a repository, and it has no credentials to any of them.

Will it sound like us?+

It learns your phrasing from how you already write, per person. Every draft is yours to change and nothing goes without you.

Does it work in Dutch and French?+

Yes. It reads mixed language mailboxes and drafts in the language of the thread.

Is client content used to train a model?+

No. Processing happens in the EU, scoped to the mailboxes you connect, under a data processing agreement we sign.

A first group, chosen by hand.

Pidgy opens to a small number of studios before anyone else, and we pick them ourselves. If building sites is your trade, tell us and we will be in touch.

Email only, nothing else askedAsking connects no mailboxWe reply either way