What Dustav is

Most consumer AI hands you a tool — a blank box that waits for a prompt and forgets you the moment the tab closes. Dustav is built differently: it's an email agent for a family or a small business. Connect your Gmail (or forward mail from any inbox) and Dustav reads it for you — turning the receipts, orders, and sign-ups you'd retype by hand into a typed table you can export, dropping the school dates and invites onto a shared calendar with reminders, and keeping the durable facts the household or shop runs on.

These docs are a manual first — how to actually use it — with a wing on how it's built for anyone curious enough to look.

An agent that reads your email

The heart of Dustav is the inbox. Connect your Gmail and a read-only daily read surfaces the emails worth acting on; you review them, and Dustav does the entry. Teach it an email rule — "every Square sign-up, save the student, the class, and the amount" — and every matching email files itself into a table you can search and export, no template to build. Not on Gmail? Forward anything to your private Dustav address from any provider, and it reads it the moment it lands.

The point isn't to chat — it's to do the work a busy household or shop never gets to. The data entry, the filing, the "put those three dates somewhere I'll see them" — done for you.

Calendar, notes, and facts

The dates Dustav reads out of your email — or that you just tell it, "dentist Thursday at 3" — land on a shared calendar with reminders. Snap a photo of a season's game times or a camp schedule and it reads every date on at once. The plans and lists you make together go into notes so they don't vanish into a transcript, and the standing facts — birthdays, who's who, which location — go into a facts knowledge base it remembers and you can correct. See the calendar, notes, and what Dustav remembers.

Dustav does all this as a plain, honest agent — a fixed name and mark, no persona to configure, no ceremony to sit through. It provisions instantly and gets to work. Getting started takes you from nothing to a working inbox and calendar.

One agent — the whole household or shop

Dustav doesn't have to be just yours. Set one up and everyone shares a single agent that knows the group it belongs to — each person with their own private chat, the agent keeping one shared calendar, one set of tables, and one set of facts. Another adult, or an assistant, joins by email invite as their own private account; whoever sets it up holds the controls. See one agent, the whole household.

And you can see all of it

Here's the part most AI won't show you: you can read exactly what the agent reads. The calendar, the tables it built from your email, the facts it's learned, its operating rules, the exact tools it can call, and the precise context it loads on every turn — all of it is visible in a built-in viewer we call the glass box.

No hidden prompt, no opaque vector store, no mystery weights deciding what the agent knows about you. If you want to know why the agent did something — or where a row in a table came from — you can go read the state that shaped it, and watch it change when you ask for a fix. That transparency is how a product that reads your email earns the trust to do so. Start with the glass box.

How these docs are laid out

Email is the core: connecting Gmail, email rules and tables, and forwarding. Using Dustav is the rest of the manual — getting started, the calendar, notes, what it remembers. Family covers the shared setup for a household or team. Trust & privacy is what we can and can't see, and how to trust it with your inbox. And Under the hood is the real technical detail — how the context is built, the cost math, the design decisions — for builders and the curious. Writing our safety posture and data-custody promises down isn't just good faith; it's accountable good faith — a stance you can read is one we can be held to.

New here? Start with getting started.