One line about what you need to say, three drafts back in different registers. Pick the one that fits and edit from there.
chase the Devos invoice, three weeks past due, we want the work to continueDear Mr Devos, invoice 2026-0418 remains outstanding as of today. Could you confirm a payment date so we can keep the current phase running.
Hi Tom, quick one on invoice 2026-0418, it is still showing unpaid at our end. Any idea when it might go out? Happy to resend it.
Tom, invoice 2026-0418 is three weeks overdue. We need a payment date this week to keep going.
One line in, three registers out
What you need, who it is for, and any hard fact that has to appear. Bullet fragments are fine, it is not reading for style.
The same message at three distances. Seeing them side by side is usually what tells you which one the relationship can take.
Take the one that fits, change the parts only you know about, send it from your own mail. Nothing leaves anywhere on its own.
turn down the Hendriks project, no capacity until March, want to stay on good terms, offer to recommend someone
Turning work down is the case where the draft helps most, because the hard part is not the words. It is getting to the answer in sentence one instead of sentence five.
Anything the relationship depends on has to go in the brief. The tool cannot see the four emails before this one.
Not from one line. It gets the register right and the fingerprints wrong, which is what the edit pass is for.
Notice periods, liability, termination. Get the words from whoever carries the risk.
of the workweek goes to reading and answering email, before any of the work inside it gets done.
McKinsey Global Institutea week on email for the heaviest email users, on top of everything else the job asks of them.
Microsoft Work Trend IndexThe tool writes from a line. Pidgy writes from your sent folder, which is the difference between a competent draft and one that sounds like you.
Yes. No account, no card, ten runs a day. Nothing you paste is stored.
Because register is the decision, not the wording. Seeing professional next to direct tells you quickly which one the relationship can take.
Say so in the brief. Warmer, shorter, more formal, apologetic, firm. It works on the instruction the same way it works on the content.
No. It writes text on a page. Copy what you want and send it from your own mail client.
Pidgy drafts every reply in your inbox, in your register, before you open the thread. Nothing ever sends without you.
