Clients tell you what they owe you in prose, halfway down a reply, with two names and one date in it. Here is what it looks like when something pulls the asks out for you.
Hi, thanks for the call this morning.
I will dig out the 2025 year-end file this week. Karim has the lease agreements, I am copying him in.
The Q4 bank statements sit with our bookkeeper and she is back on the 22nd.
Could you confirm what is still open at your end? The accounts need to be filed before the AGM on 14 October.
Paste the thread, get the asks, with who owes each one
Not only the last message. Half the commitments in a document conversation are made three replies up and never repeated.
A flat list of asks with an owner and a date wherever the email gave one. Where it did not, the field stays empty instead of being guessed.
Send it back as a confirmation, drop it into your tracker, or hand it to whoever is chasing. The prose has done its job by then.
Hi, thanks for the call this morning.
I will dig out the 2025 year-end file this week. Karim has the lease agreements, I am copying him in here.
The Q4 bank statements sit with our bookkeeper and she is back on the 22nd.
We also still owe you the director's loan schedule, although I was fairly sure we sent that over in March. Could you confirm what is still open at your end?
One thing to flag: the accounts need to be filed before the AGM on 14 October.
Two of those six are the interesting ones. The loan schedule is a disagreement rather than a request, so another reminder will not move it. The fifth line is an ask pointed back at you, which is the one that usually gets missed because it does not look like work.
If you handle a handful of these a month, the tool on its own is enough. Pidgy earns its place when the same thing happens forty times a week and you are the only one keeping score.
It works on text you paste. A request list sitting inside a PDF or a spreadsheet comes back empty, because the tool never saw it.
Do not paste material you would not put through a third-party tool. Strip names and figures first, or build the list by hand and skip this step.
For a PBC list or a due diligence index, the authoritative list comes from your own template. The email is an amendment to it, not the source of it.
Anything agreed on a call and never put in writing is invisible here. That is an argument for confirming calls by email, which is a habit rather than a tool.
of the workweek goes to reading and answering email, before any of the work inside it gets done.
McKinsey Global Instituteof the working day goes to coordination about work: chasing updates, hunting documents, confirming status.
Asana Anatomy of Workto get back to what you were doing after a single inbox interruption.
Mark et al., UC IrvineYes. No account, no card, ten runs a day. Nothing you paste is stored. It is one of eleven free tools built by Pidgy, the AI email assistant by Alkmist.
No. The tool works on its own and always will. Pidgy is what you add when you want the same thing happening to every email as it arrives, rather than to the one thread you remembered to paste.
Treat it as you would any third-party tool. For routine document chasing it is fine. For privileged or commercially sensitive threads, remove names and figures first, or build the list by hand. If your firm has a policy on external AI tools, that policy applies here.
Partly. The authoritative list for regulated work comes from your own template, not from a client email. Where it helps is the traffic around that list: the reply that adds four items, moves two dates and hands one thing to a third party. Those amendments are what get lost.
They come back with the date field empty rather than filled with a guess. That is deliberate. An invented deadline in a request list is worse than a missing one, because it looks like something the client agreed to.
Pidgy reads all of them, ranks what matters, turns the asks into tasks and chases what is slipping. Nothing ever sends without you.
