Prio is an AI chief of staff (Executive Assistant) for founders. One chat to manage your inbox, calendar, tasks, and contacts across Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, and Drive. Every action; emails, meetings, follow-ups are going through an approval queue. nothing executes without your OK. Over time, Prio learns from your approvals and starts automating routine actions automatically. High-stakes decisions always stay in your hands. EU hosted, GDPR native.
Hey everyone, I'm Fred. 51, solo founder, bootstrapped, building from the Netherlands.
Prio is an AI chief of staff for founders. One chat to manage your inbox, calendar, tasks, contacts, and follow-ups across Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Drive, and LinkedIn.
The core idea: nothing executes without your approval. The AI drafts emails, schedules meetings, triages your inbox, processes invoices. But every action goes through an approval queue first. You review, edit if needed, approve.
Here's where it gets interesting. Every approval and every rejection is a training signal. Over time, Prio learns which actions you always approve without edits and starts automating those. Routine stuff gets handled. High-stakes decisions stay in your hands. You're not giving up control, you're teaching the system how you work.
I built this because I wanted an assistant that earns trust instead of assuming it. EU hosted, GDPR native, because European founders deserve tools built for them, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Would love your feedback. Happy to answer anything about the Vercel tech;
Next.js
AI SDK
Workflow SDK
Chat SDK
Streamdown AI
or the approach.
Looks great! I’m actually going to try this, seriously what really caught me is that it’s realistic. Not just "jumping straight" into full automation where I constantly have to fix things manually, but instead starting with a learning phase first and only then gradually taking actions automatically.
Does it read emails? + Is it safe in terms of reading that written email communication?
Rad job @fredvanrijswijk, love the fact that LinkedIn inbox is also connected. Follow-ups and replies are so easy to miss. Does it somehow identify unimportant emails and screen through them?
About Prio on Product Hunt
“Your AI chief of staff for email, calendar, and tasks”
Prio launched on Product Hunt on April 17th, 2026 and earned 75 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #35 on the daily leaderboard. Prio is an AI chief of staff (Executive Assistant) for founders. One chat to manage your inbox, calendar, tasks, and contacts across Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, and Drive. Every action; emails, meetings, follow-ups are going through an approval queue. nothing executes without your OK. Over time, Prio learns from your approvals and starts automating routine actions automatically. High-stakes decisions always stay in your hands. EU hosted, GDPR native.
Prio was featured in Artificial Intelligence (466.3k followers), Virtual Assistants (16.1k followers) and Vercel Day (4 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 88.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Prio?
Prio was hunted by Fred van Rijswijk. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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