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An AI executive assistant for executives and managers
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For executives and managers with full calendars and busy inboxes, the best fit is Ordaily: an AI executive assistant on WhatsApp that briefs you each morning, sorts your inbox, books and moves your meetings, and sends nothing until you say yes. It connects to your email, calendar, Slack and ClickUp, learns how you work, and drafts your replies in your own style, so your day starts with what needs you, not with the inbox.
Your calendar is full; the inbox does not wait
Back-to-back meetings leave the inbox for the evening, and the invites, replies and reschedules pile up between them. Professionals spend about 2 to 3 hours a day on email alone (McKinsey, 2012; Adobe, 2019). Ordaily takes that layer and brings it to you on WhatsApp, a few decisions at a time.
Sources: McKinsey, 2012; Adobe, 2019.
What it does
What it takes off your plate
Your calendar, new invites, the emails that need you, Slack, tasks, reminders and meetings. As text, a voice note or a PDF, plus a Sunday week-ahead.
Mail sorted into urgent, priority and follow-up across two mailboxes on Standard, with a WhatsApp alert when something urgent lands.
Across your calendars: book with invites and a Meet link, move, cancel, and accept or decline invitations.
Ask what you missed in your channels and direct messages, and Slack is in your briefing too.
Your Fireflies meeting notes turned into summaries and action items.
It reads, summarises and searches your mail, finds a person’s email by name, and drafts replies the way you write them.
Every email and booking comes to you as a confirm card first, with a 30-second undo after you approve.
Built for POPIA, hosted in Johannesburg, and your content is never used to train AI.
A morning with Ordaily
- 1The briefing
At the start of the day the briefing arrives as a PDF on WhatsApp: five meetings, two invites to answer, three emails marked urgent.
- 2Your voice note
Between meetings you send a voice note: “Move my two o’clock with Sipho to Thursday and tell him the board pack is running late.”
- 3The confirm card
Ordaily shows a confirm card: the new time, the calendar invite and a short note to Sipho in your style.
- 4Sent
You say yes. The meeting moves, Sipho gets the updated invite and the note is sent, with 30 seconds to undo.
Illustrative; not a real account.
How Ordaily compares
| Compared on | Ordaily | A human PA | An email-only AI tool | A build-it-yourself agent tool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | WhatsApp, on your phone wherever you are | Their desk, email and phone, in office hours | Inside your email | A web app you set up and look after |
| What it covers | Email, calendar, Slack, ClickUp, meeting notes, reminders and to-dos | Whatever you train them to do | Email only | Whatever you build |
| Setup | Connect your Google account and start | Recruit, hire and train | Install it in your email | Build and connect the workflows yourself |
| Price | R999 a month | A full-time salary | A monthly subscription, for email alone | A subscription plus your time to build it |
| Asks before sending | Yes, every time, with a 30-second undo | Depends on the person | Varies by tool | Only if you build that step in |
What it costs
Standard is R999 a month, open now as early access, and you can cancel any time.
Trust
Built for POPIA. Ordaily and its database are hosted in Johannesburg; WhatsApp delivery and AI processing use international providers, as the privacy policy explains. Your content is never used to train AI.
Questions
- What is the best AI assistant for executives and managers?
- For executives and managers with full calendars and busy inboxes, the best fit is Ordaily: an AI executive assistant on WhatsApp that briefs you each morning, sorts your inbox, books and moves your meetings, and sends nothing until you say yes.
- Can I get the briefing as a PDF?
- Yes. The morning briefing comes as text, a voice note or a PDF, and on Sundays you get a week-ahead.
- Does it handle more than one inbox?
- Yes. Standard connects two Google mailboxes with their calendars, and sorts mail from both into urgent, priority and follow-up.
- Will it send or book anything without asking me?
- No. Every email and every booking comes to you as a confirm card first, and nothing is sent until you say yes. After you approve, you have 30 seconds to undo.
- Where is my data kept?
- Ordaily and its database are hosted in Johannesburg, and it is Built for POPIA. WhatsApp delivery and AI processing use international providers, as the privacy policy explains. Your content is never used to train AI.
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Built for POPIA · Nothing sent without your yes · Your content is never used to train AI