AgentMail-style products give agents brand-new, programmable mailboxes to send/receive from. Sortd takes the opposite tack: layer the work model over the team's existing Gmail — no new inbox for the team to adopt, no migration.
| Agent-native mailbox | Sortd | |
|---|---|---|
| Inbox | A new mailbox for the agent | The team's existing Gmail |
| Adoption | Route mail to the new address | Connect Sortd; nothing changes for the team |
| Team state | Per-agent | Shared boards, assignments, ownership |
| AI | Bring your own | Built-in classification as labels |
| Human-in-the-loop | Varies | Drafts-for-review by default; agents never send |
For fully autonomous machine-to-machine mail, an agent-native mailbox fits. For helping a human team run the email they already get, Sortd is the layer.