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Your Personal AI Assistant.
Delivered to an Inbox You Already Know.

Messages, voice calls, and rich content — in an interface your mum could use.

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10:42 AM
Sidedesk Agent
Revenue Report Q4
10:38 AM
Sidedesk Agent
Build Pipeline: 87% complete
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Sidedesk Agent
server.py - Code Review
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Sidedesk Agent
Good morning! Here's your...
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Sidedesk Agent
Deployment Successful
Revenue Report Q4
From: Sidedesk Agent   10:42 AM
Hi Sebastian,
Here's the Q4 revenue breakdown you asked for:
SourceRevenueChange
App Store$4,280+12%
Subscriptions$2,150+8%
Services$1,800-3%
Build pipeline progress:
87% complete
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What Sidedesk Delivers To Your Inbox

✉ Messages
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Your AI assistant's messages appear like emails — with a sender, subject line, and timestamp. Read them when you want, reply when you're ready.

Sidedesk Agent - Revenue Report Q4
Sidedesk Agent - Build Pipeline: 87%
Sidedesk Agent - Good morning!
Sidedesk Agent - Deploy Successful
Sidedesk Agent - Weekly Summary

Unread messages appear bold with a blue marker, just like Outlook.

☎ Voice Calls
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Have a real voice conversation with your AI. Click Call, speak naturally, and it responds. No typing required.

☎ Voice Call
02:34
Transcript:
You: What's the status of the deploy?
Agent: The deploy completed at 10:15. All 25 apps passed review.

Works on desktop and mobile. WebRTC — no phone number needed.

☰ Rich Content
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Tables, code blocks, progress bars — not just plain text. Your assistant sends structured data you can actually read.

TaskStatus
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TestRunning
DeployPending
1 def deploy():
2   status = check_all()
3   return push(status)
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Who Sidedesk Is For

For Your Mum and Dad

They already know how to use email. They already know what an inbox is. Sidedesk puts AI in that familiar container — no new apps to learn, no chatbot interfaces to figure out.

  • Reads and looks like Outlook — because it is Outlook
  • Messages arrive like emails, not ephemeral chats
  • Voice calls work like a phone — just click and talk
  • Nothing to configure, nothing to prompt

For Developers

Your AI agent already runs autonomously. But where do its reports go? Sidedesk gives it a proper outbox — push tables, code, progress bars, and voice updates to an inbox you actually check.

  • REST API: /desk/push for structured cards
  • WebSocket for real-time updates
  • SQLite persistence — messages survive restarts
  • LiveKit WebRTC voice — call your agent from anywhere

For Anyone Tired of Flat Design

Flat design made everything look the same. You can't tell a button from a label, a link from a heading. Sidedesk brings back the clarity of 2003: buttons look like buttons, windows look like windows.

  • 3D borders — you can tell what's clickable
  • Gradients that communicate hierarchy
  • Tahoma 11px — dense, readable, fast
  • An aesthetic the internet is desperately missing

How It Works

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Your AI Works
Your AI agent runs in the background — researching, building, deploying. Whenever it has something to tell you, it pushes a message.
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Messages Arrive
Tables, code blocks, progress updates, voice call requests — they all appear in your inbox as emails with a familiar From/Subject/Date layout.
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You Read and Reply
Open, read, reply — on your own time. Start a voice call if you need to talk it through. Everything is saved, searchable, and persistent.

What People Are Saying

"I showed my dad a ChatGPT window and he closed it. I showed him Sidedesk and he said 'oh, it's like my work email.' He's been using it every day for a month."
— Early beta tester

Nostalgia Isn't Retro. It's Ergonomic.

Frutiger Aero is trending for a reason. Thirty million TikTok views, Apple shipping "Liquid Glass," 73% of Gen Z campaigns referencing Y2K aesthetics. People don't just miss skeuomorphic design — they perform better with it.

Research shows older users complete tasks significantly faster with interfaces that use visual metaphors they recognise — beveled buttons, window frames, folder icons. These aren't decorations. They're affordances.

Sidedesk isn't cosplaying as 2003. It's using 2003's design language because it actually works — for your parents, for power users, and for everyone who's sick of guessing whether that grey rectangle is a button or a label.


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