How Nora works

The loop

1. You forward an email thread to your private Nora address, with a command code on the first line (or plain English).
2. Nora reads the thread and prepares the right output — a reply draft, a summary, an analysis, or a report.
3. Nora replies to you (never to anyone else) with a short receipt plus a copy-ready block you can paste straight into your email client.
4. You send it — or reply to Nora with a tweak to get a revised draft.

The receipt

Every reply leads with the clean, copy-ready draft between two markers, so copying it is effortless and none of Nora's notes leak into what you send. Below it, a short receipt tells you:

• Read as: what Nora understood you to want
• Status: nothing was sent — this is a draft
• How to revise: reply with a change
• Heads up: anything to double-check before sending

The revise loop

Reply to a draft with a change ("make it warmer", "shorter", "mention Tuesday") and Nora returns a new draft on the same thread. Summaries and analyses are one-shot; replies and reports can be revised.

The guardrail

Nora's entire design is "drafts, you send." There is no path for Nora to send an email to a recipient or to book/schedule anything — that's enforced in how it's built, not a preference you can toggle. Codes that ask for autonomous actions are recognized and politely declined.

Authenticity & privacy

• Nora only acts on mail from you — it checks the sender against a registry and the message's authentication before doing anything; anything else is ignored.
• Forwarded content is processed by an AI service (Claude) to prepare your draft.
• Nora is a single-tenant, self-hostable service — see the project repository to run your own.