Julie Desk, Your Virtual Personal Assistant

Furthermore, all of this takes place via email, using human-friendly language, as if Julie is a real person.

This isn’t the first virtual assistant application of its kind. A service called x.ai is in limited beta and their site is accepting emails to be added to a waiting list. And Clara Labs is available now, albeit at a higher cost (Julie Desk is $60 a month, Clara is between $300 and $500, and x.ai hasn’t announced pricing yet).

I find this concept to be very compelling. The idea of cc’ing an email address and having it automatically respond and get to work automatically is awesome. I was even able to get my mom to start using Square Cash which works similarly, except used to send people money.

Email is far from dead.