Ada is Read AI's AI Executive Assistant, an in-email assistant that automates scheduling, answers questions about your meetings and work, and operates as a human-like assistant with guardrails and approval flows. Because Ada is built on the Read AI platform, it has direct access to your meeting transcripts, summaries, action items, and key decisions — making it uniquely able to help you recall what happened in past meetings and prepare for upcoming ones. Ada can also answer broader questions using connected knowledge sources via Ask Read (20+ integrations). Users interact with Ada by adding ada@read.ai to any email thread.
Who is Ada designed for?
Ada is designed for busy knowledge workers: executives, managers, and professionals who are inbox-dependent and frequently coordinate with coworkers and clients via email, and who have significant external meeting loads and spend 3–5 hours per week on scheduling and calendar management. Ada is free and available to all Read AI users.
How to start using Ada?
There are several ways to begin using Ada:
Email Ada directly: Send an email to ada@read.ai. If you don't have a Read AI account yet, Ada will prompt you to create one.
CC Ada on an email thread: Add ada@read.ai to any email thread where you want scheduling or question-answering help.
Via onboarding emails: You may receive proactive onboarding emails from Ada based on your meeting activity, with suggested prompts to try.
What can Ada do today?
Ada's core capabilities include:
Meeting scheduling: Handles end-to-end scheduling coordination via email threads, grounded in your calendar and preferences.
Meeting intelligence & preparation: Answers questions about past meetings using Read AI transcripts, summaries, and action items. Can also help you prepare for upcoming meetings by surfacing relevant context from prior conversations with the same participants, outstanding action items, and key decisions. This works for any meeting Read AI has captured; no additional setup required beyond having Read AI join your meetings.
General content queries / Answers via Ask Read: For users with Ask Read set up, Ada can also answer questions from a broader set of connected knowledge sources (email, chat, documents, CRM, storage — 20+ native integrations). This extends Ada's knowledge beyond meetings into your full work context.
Proactive suggestions: Calendar conflict detection, action extraction from meetings.
Scheduling preferences: You can set scheduling preferences in natural language (e.g., "I prefer morning meetings," "Don't book over my Friday focus time"), and Ada stores and uses them for future interactions. (NOTE: Preferences can only be respected by Ada when you're the one initiating a scheduling request. If you are not the original requestor but are on the thread, Ada will respect what you have set in your Smart Scheduler settings, but not your custom preferences.)
Email interactions: All interactions happen over email.
FAQs
What do I need to set up for Ada to work?
At minimum, you'll need a Read AI account. For scheduling, you'll need to have a connected calendar and Read Smart Scheduler (RSS) enabled so Ada can view and edit your calendar. For meeting intelligence & preparation and general content queries, you'll need Ask Read enabled.
What if I have a Read account, but I don't have a calendar connected?
Ada will prompt you to connect a calendar when you attempt a scheduling-related request. Specifically, you will be directed to the integrations/calendar settings page in the Read AI app.
What if I don't have a Read AI account at all?
If you email Ada directly or are on a thread with Ada, Ada will prompt you to create a Read AI account. Ada cannot perform scheduling tasks or answer questions for you without a Read account.
Do I need to be logged in to Read AI for Ada to work?
No. Ada operates over email. You don't need to be actively logged into the Read AI to interact with Ada.
I thought Ada was in the meetings taking notes. Is that true?
No. Ada is a separate product from the Read AI meeting bot. Ada operates over email and accesses meeting data that the Read AI meeting bot has already captured. Ada does not join meetings itself. The meeting bot and Ada work together — the bot captures the content, and Ada helps you act on it via email.
What can Ada NOT do today?
The following are not part of Ada's capabilities today (but may be someday):
Out of Office mode — Ada cannot fully respond on your behalf without sidebarring you. Therefore, you can CC Ada on your out-of-office auto-responder, but Ada will ask you for approval of responses rather than responding autonomously.
Employee resurrection / continuity mode — Asking questions of a former employee's "twin" is not supported.
Full inbox management — Ada is not a zero-inbox tool.
Slack or Teams integration — All interactions are email-only, but we're exploring support for Slack and Teams.