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!
The proactive part is exactly what I'd want and also what I'd be most nervous about. How much does it act on its own versus check with me first?
Congrats on the launch! Read through Ellie's answers on the approve-the-plan model — really thoughtful, and the "reading is free, approve before acting" split is the right shape.
The one edge I'd be curious about is the recurring pre-approved skills. Per-task approval is well covered here — but once a recurring skill runs on a pre-approved plan, that's where the autonomy quietly lives, and the risk isn't the plan, it's drift:
the context shifts underneath a plan that was approved weeks ago, and it keeps executing confidently against the old
assumption. Do the recurring skills re-check themselves against current context before each run, or flag when what they're
about to do diverges from the original approved intent? That's usually where "set and forget" automations end up burning
someone.
Either way, flipping AI from routing-layer to proactive is the right direction — nicely done. 👏
The idea of having a proactive AI teammate is interesting. I'm curious… what's the biggest behavior change you've seen from users once Elvin starts taking initiative instead of waiting for prompts?
2018 Ellie would be proud. This is exactly what I've been waiting for—AI that finds the work for me instead of making more work. Just downloaded.
I like the idea that Elvin looks for the coordination work first instead of waiting for a perfect prompt. Emails, meetings, docs, and task tools are exactly where the messy “someone needs to follow up on this” work usually lives.
The approval step also feels important. For anything involving teammates, clients, or important decisions, I would want the agent to prepare the work, but not silently act without me.
Curious how Elvin decides what is worth surfacing. Does it learn from what users approve, ignore, or edit over time?
Love the idea of AI that works ahead of you rather than waiting to be asked. How does Elvin handle situations where it gets context wrong and takes the wrong next step — is there an easy way to course-correct?
Really love the way you’ve flipped the script here—AI shouldn’t just add more noise, it should actually lighten the load. Elvin feels like a step toward that future, where the agent proactively takes on the heavy lifting instead of leaving us stuck in the routing layer. Curious—what’s been the most surprising task you’ve seen Elvin handle so far?
The proactive angle is compelling. Most AI tools still wait for a prompt, which keeps humans as the workflow router. How does Elvin decide when to start work on its own versus when to pause and ask for confirmation? That boundary feels like the difference between an assistant and a real work agent.
Have you guys considered the possibility of two Elvins collaborating when their users are working together while keeping each user's context completely separate?
For example, if User A and User B have an important planning meeting coming up, their Elvins could coordinate data gathering and preparation on both sides, with each user authorizing what they're willing to share and what actions to take. The goal would be to automate the groundwork on both ends and surface the best possible outcome for the meeting.
One Elvin could request data or trigger an action on the other side, which would then prompt the other user for approval before anything happens.
Nice idea. How does Elvin decide what counts as coordination work worth surfacing versus noise it should ignore?
Hey Ellie! It sound amazing cause sometimes I feel I'd take most of AI if someone else is telling what to do. Becomes a bottleneck usually, so I'm sure founders gonna love this. Wish you all the best!
That line about us becoming the routing layer hits way to close to home, ty guys for saving us from our own tools🫡
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 205 upvotes and 25 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.
Elvin was featured in Productivity (654.1k followers), Task Management (84.1k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (471.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 250.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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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