Proactive AI that finds and finishes work before you ask
Stop acting as the routing layer between AI and your actual work. Elvin is proactive AI that finds coordination work across your tools, handles the messy multi-step parts, and asks before taking action. It turns scattered context from messages, meetings, docs, and task tools into ready-to-approve drafts, follow-ups, updates, and next steps.
Who decided that AI gets to do the fun stuff while we remain the routing layer for work?
Hello Product Hunt! We’re Ellie and Vinay, the cofounders of Elvin.
We are busy people, creating Elvin for busy people
We built Elvin because we’re all overloaded. So far, AI is making it worse, not better. Every AI-generated message or newsletter becomes someone else’s noise, and that person still has to process it. And getting AI to help meant stopping to write a pile of prompts first.
Somewhere along the way, AI grabbed all the big, interesting work, and we got left as the routing layer. Sorting, chasing, following up. That felt backward.
If AI is so smart, it should figure out how it can help you, not the other way around.
So we built Elvin: a proactive personal agent that works ahead of you. It reads across your email, chat, and calendar, identifies what needs to be done, and gets started. It's as powerful as it is proactive. It does the big jobs, building documents and graphics, not just drafting emails (though it does that too).
If you’ve seen OpenClaw, you know proactive AI is real and can figure out how to do real tasks. Elvin is that, minus the hardware, the tokens, and the command line.
How Elvin works
🔍 Elvin finds tasks in your email and other tools (or you can message Elvin)
📋 Elvin creates plans for how to get the work done for you
✅ You just say yes, and off to the races! (Or tweak the plan)
⚡ Turn on Elvin’s pre-built skills for your job role or build your own
Elvin is multiplayer
🤝 Connect with your teammates
🤖 Even add your AI Agent friends like AI Software Engineer @Devin by Cognition
Elvin’s origin story
We like making powerful tools that are usable by everyone.
Back in 2018, I (Ellie) joined Slack and was immediately overwhelmed by the number of new messages and channels. I wondered when AI would be able to help me find what was most important for me to read, and could it generate a todo list based on information coming in from all of your messages and apps. In 2018, AI was not up to the task.
In 2025, Vinay and I realized that the technology was there to build a product that could not only find your most important work but also get it done for you with self-writing AI Agents.
Elvin is available on iPhone, Android, and the web. Free while it’s in beta. No waitlist. Big thanks to @Voicepanel and @CodeAnt AI for making Elvin possible!
Thanks for having a look!
✨ Ellie and Vinay
About Elvin on Product Hunt
“Proactive AI that finds and finishes work before you ask”
Elvin launched on Product Hunt on June 18th, 2026 and earned 197 upvotes and 21 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Stop acting as the routing layer between AI and your actual work. Elvin is proactive AI that finds coordination work across your tools, handles the messy multi-step parts, and asks before taking action. It turns scattered context from messages, meetings, docs, and task tools into ready-to-approve drafts, follow-ups, updates, and next steps.
On the analytics side, Elvin competes within Productivity, Task Management and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Elvin performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Elvin?
Elvin was hunted by Ben Lang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Elvin including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ben Lang
Who decided that AI gets to do the fun stuff while we remain the routing layer for work?
Hello Product Hunt! We’re Ellie and Vinay, the cofounders of Elvin.
We are busy people, creating Elvin for busy people
We built Elvin because we’re all overloaded. So far, AI is making it worse, not better. Every AI-generated message or newsletter becomes someone else’s noise, and that person still has to process it. And getting AI to help meant stopping to write a pile of prompts first.
Somewhere along the way, AI grabbed all the big, interesting work, and we got left as the routing layer. Sorting, chasing, following up. That felt backward.
If AI is so smart, it should figure out how it can help you, not the other way around.
So we built Elvin: a proactive personal agent that works ahead of you. It reads across your email, chat, and calendar, identifies what needs to be done, and gets started. It's as powerful as it is proactive. It does the big jobs, building documents and graphics, not just drafting emails (though it does that too).
If you’ve seen OpenClaw, you know proactive AI is real and can figure out how to do real tasks. Elvin is that, minus the hardware, the tokens, and the command line.
How Elvin works
🔍 Elvin finds tasks in your email and other tools (or you can message Elvin)
📋 Elvin creates plans for how to get the work done for you
✅ You just say yes, and off to the races! (Or tweak the plan)
⚡ Turn on Elvin’s pre-built skills for your job role or build your own
Elvin is multiplayer
🤝 Connect with your teammates
🤖 Even add your AI Agent friends like AI Software Engineer @Devin by Cognition
Elvin’s origin story
We like making powerful tools that are usable by everyone.
Back in 2018, I (Ellie) joined Slack and was immediately overwhelmed by the number of new messages and channels. I wondered when AI would be able to help me find what was most important for me to read, and could it generate a todo list based on information coming in from all of your messages and apps. In 2018, AI was not up to the task.
In 2025, Vinay and I realized that the technology was there to build a product that could not only find your most important work but also get it done for you with self-writing AI Agents.
Elvin is available on iPhone, Android, and the web. Free while it’s in beta. No waitlist. Big thanks to @Voicepanel and @CodeAnt AI for making Elvin possible!
Thanks for having a look!
✨ Ellie and Vinay