Vol. I — № 001

EmcognitoWebMail

2026

For the portfolio entrepreneur

The inbox for one person
running many businesses.

You are one reader. You are also a studio, a practice, a small publication, and the LLC that holds them together. Every other email client asks you to pick which one you are today. Emcognito WebMail asks, instead, which domain this letter is addressed to — and colours it in the margin so you already know.

When you reply, the From is chosen for you. No browser profiles, no four Gmail tabs, no mental mode-switching. Just the right self, on every letter, automatically.

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This is for you if you are —

I · The problem

One person, many hats.

You have — admit it — four Chrome profiles for your four email addresses. One inbox per business. One tab set per life. Each notification is a reminder that the email app was built for one of you.

“The inbox has always been designed for a single self. Yours isn't.”

II · The idea

One reading view, every address.

Every address you own arrives in the same inbox, tagged in the margin with a colour that's stable per-domain. When a letter from a customer at hello@studio.yours arrives, it wears the studio's stripe; when you reply, the From is already set to hello@studio.yours. You didn't have to pick.

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    Add a domain in minutes. Four DNS records — MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC. The wizard shows each as a copy-paste card; we watch for them to resolve and flip the domain to verified.
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    Every letter wears a stripe. Consistent colour per domain — in the inbox list, in the letter view, on the reply banner.
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    Replies pick the right self. The From is derived from the address the original was sent to. Override in the compose window if you must; most days you won't.

Demo · A morning in the inbox

Four letters, before nine.

III · Against the incumbents

Built around multi-identity.

Every other client treats the inbox as single-self and bolts aliases on as a setting. Emcognito WebMail starts from the opposite direction.

Everyone else

  • Gmailaliases buried in settings
  • Google Workspacebilled per user, × every domain
  • Fastmailseparate inbox per identity
  • ProtonMailaliases are a footnote
  • Superhumana faster keyboard, still one self

Emcognito WebMail

  • ·Inbox is multi-persona by design
  • ·Per-domain colour stripe, everywhere
  • ·Reply From auto-selected to the received address
  • ·One flat price, unlimited domains
  • ·Custom domains in under ten minutes
  • ·Magic-link sign-in; no passwords

See the head-to-head takes · vs. Gmail aliases · vs. Workspace · vs. Fastmail

III½ · Under the hood

Built for the letter that has to arrive.

Emcognito WebMail isn't a skin over a public SMTP relay. Every domain you bind gets its own signature, its own verification posture, and its own reputation.

Per-domain DKIM
RSA-2048, generated the moment you add a domain. The private half is Fernet-encrypted at rest; the signature a recipient verifies is the one that belongs to that domain.
SPF · DMARC
The wizard writes both. DMARC starts at p=quarantine with aggregate reports routed to us — so the policy is strict from day one, not a someday-to-do.
Amazon SES outbound
Production sending via SendRawEmail. Threading headers (In-Reply-To, References) set so Gmail & Outlook fold your replies into the original thread.
Bounces caught at the edge
SNS notifications mark dead addresses before a second letter goes out. Your sender reputation doesn't drift because a contact's mailbox shut down six months ago.
Magic-link auth
No password to leak. Links are one-time, fifteen-minute, and bound to the address they were issued to. Sessions are httpOnly refresh-token cookies.
Thirty days of hesitation
Trashed letters are recoverable for a month. A rash archive on Tuesday isn't a permanent loss by Friday.

IV · Subscription

Two ways to keep writing.

Fourteen days on the house, then pick a cadence. No charge during the trial; cancel anytime from the Stripe billing portal.

Monthly

$3.50/mo

Billed monthly. No commitment.

Annual

$2.99/mo— two months gratis

$35.88 once a year. Cancel anytime.

Included with either cadence

  • ·As many names as you like. Bring every domain you own; the sidebar holds them all without ceremony.
  • ·A signature per letter, not per app. Each outbound message is DKIM-signed in its own domain's hand.
  • ·Sign in by letter. A one-time link to the address you already check — no password to remember.
  • ·30 days of hesitation. Letters moved to trash stay recoverable for a month; attachments up to 15 MiB; replies arrive threaded.
  • ·Bad addresses quietly caught. Bounces and complaints drop at the edge so your sender reputation never drifts.
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V · Questions before the first letter

Answers, plainly.

01How is this different from Gmail aliases?
Gmail can send as one of a handful of aliases, but everything still arrives at one identity and threads together under a single From. Emcognito treats each domain as a first-class self: stable color, auto-selected reply From, per-domain DKIM, no per-alias caps.
02I run three businesses. Do I pay for three seats?
No. You are one person; you pay for one seat. $3.50 / month monthly, $2.99 / month on the annual plan — flat, regardless of how many domains, identities, or businesses ride on top.
03Can I bring domains I already own?
Yes — that's the point. Add any domain you control, paste four DNS records, and the wizard watches for them to resolve. Most domains are verified and sending mail inside ten minutes.
04Is my outbound mail DKIM-signed per domain?
Yes. Each domain gets its own RSA-2048 DKIM key, private half Fernet-encrypted at rest. The signature your recipients verify is the one that belongs to the domain the letter came from — not a shared signer.
05What happens if I cancel?
You stop being charged. Letters you've already received remain yours — export them any time. Magic-link sign-in keeps working through the end of the paid period. Nothing is held hostage.
06Is there a free trial?
Fourteen days, card on file but not charged. Cancel before the trial ends and you aren't billed a cent.

More at the full FAQ · the field manual

Open the first letter

Start correspondence.

Sign in with any email; add one of your own domains from the sidebar; watch letters start to arrive with their own stripes. You can always go back to browser profiles. You won't want to.

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