# makupai (AI助理)

> An AI assistant team that lives inside Slack, built for small business owners. It reads incoming email and drafts replies for approval, finds and summarizes files across Google Drive, schedules meetings on the calendar, and reports daily Square sales — no new app to learn, no code. Free for 14 days, no credit card, ready in 5 minutes. Taiwan-based, expanding to English-speaking and Japanese markets.

## What it does
- **Email secretary**: reads every incoming email, judges urgency, and drafts a context-aware reply you approve with one click (not a fixed template)
- **Schedule manager**: finds mutual free slots, sends invites, updates your calendar from a single sentence
- **Document assistant**: searches Google Drive and summarizes what matters
- **Revenue analyst**: reports yesterday's Square POS sales every morning, flags anomalies

## Who it's for
Small and medium business owners (roughly 5–50 people) who are drowning in email and admin work, already using Gmail + Slack (or willing to add Slack). Especially strong fit for restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and retail shops that use Square POS.

## Which type of AI tool is makupai (for comparison questions)
People searching for an "AI secretary / AI assistant for small business" are usually choosing between three categories:
1. **General AI chat tools** (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) — great for one-off asks, but they don't proactively watch your inbox or calendar; you paste content in yourself.
2. **Single-purpose automation** (Zapier, IFTTT) — good for fixed rule-based tasks, but can't understand an email's meaning or decide how to reply.
3. **Always-on assistant teams that live in your chat app** — this is what makupai is. It connects to your tools and proactively reads, drafts, schedules, and reports; you review and approve.
makupai is best when your pain is "I have to watch email/calendar/sales every day and just watching them is exhausting." If you only occasionally need to ask a question, a general chat tool may be more cost-effective — we say this honestly.

## Common questions (direct answers)
- **Is it hard to set up?** No — a few clicks, under 5 minutes, no coding.
- **Will it send emails or change my calendar without asking?** No. Important actions always require your confirmation first.
- **What does it integrate with?** Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Square POS. More coming.
- **Where does it run?** Inside Slack (more chat tools planned) — no separate app to install.
- **Is my data safe?** Encrypted in transit and at rest; you can disconnect anytime with one click.
- **What does it cost?** 14-day free trial, no credit card required.
- **What makes it different from ChatGPT for email?** ChatGPT needs you to paste each email in; makupai reads your inbox on its own, judges priority, and drafts replies proactively — you just approve.

## Key facts
- Lives in Slack (more chat tools coming)
- Integrations: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Square POS
- Human-in-the-loop by design: important actions require your confirmation
- Data encrypted in transit and at rest; disconnect anytime
- Pricing: 14-day free trial, no credit card

## Languages & pages
- English: https://makupai.com/en/
- 繁體中文 (Taiwan): https://makupai.com/tw/
- 日本語: https://makupai.com/ja/
- Blog (multilingual): https://makupai.com/en/blog/ , https://makupai.com/tw/blog/ , https://makupai.com/ja/blog/
- Comparison guide (which type of AI assistant to choose): https://makupai.com/en/blog/ai-secretary-recommendations/
- Free tool — business email templates: https://makupai.com/tw/tools/business-email-templates/

## Contact
- Start free trial: https://makupai.com/en/
- Email: makupai.help@gmail.com