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Find the conversations that need you.

Catch up on connected messages, identify inquiries awaiting attention, and prepare replies using your company’s recorded information.

Why you need this: Without it, finding who is waiting on a reply means opening every inbox and chat in turn. Here the catch-up reads your connected messages and prepares drafts, and you send each reply yourself.

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Catch up across connected services.

Messages arrive in many places, and something important is easy to miss. Bring supported email and chat information into one working view. Read summaries alongside the original context when you need to check a detail.

See who may need a reply.

Not every message needs you, and the ones that do should not get buried. Use the inquiry scanner and reply queue to identify conversations worth reviewing. Separate work waiting for your attention from drafts ready for the next step.

Prepare a reply with the business facts available.

A fast reply is only useful if it is right about names, prices, and commitments. Give your AI access to the relevant company information when preparing a response. Check names, commitments, prices, and unresolved questions before using it.

Keep a record of the conversation.

A reply you sent last month is easy to forget when the customer writes again. Save useful summaries and record completed replies so later work can draw on the history. Information from an incoming message should remain attributable to its sender rather than automatically becoming an approved company fact.

Try asking

Find customer inquiries that appear to need a response. Draft replies using our documented service information, and flag anything that requires my decision.

How the standard reply workflow works

A set order for catching up keeps replies from depending on who remembers.

  1. Connect a supported inbox or messaging source.
  2. Review the catch-up summary and inquiries.
  3. Inspect or revise a proposed reply.
  4. Copy and send the approved wording through your usual account.
  5. Keep the response status and company record up to date.

Questions

Will it reply without me?

The standard catch-up connections are read-only, and the reply workflow prepares drafts for manual sending. Additional configured tools may have different permissions; inspect them separately.

Do I need Beeper?

Beeper is one option for supported chat networks. Email and other supported connections have their own setup requirements.

Are all my accounts connected automatically?

No. Choose and authorize the services you want to use. Availability depends on the connection and your provider account.

What if an incoming message contains instructions for the AI?

External messages should be treated as source material, not authorization to change records or take actions. Review unexpected requests and check the controls of the workflow processing them.

Put your business knowledge to work.

Create your company workspace, connect your AI, and prepare your first result for review.

Your download has started. One more step on a Mac.

Apple has not notarized Alacrán, because that needs a paid Apple Developer account. Until you do this once, macOS may block the app, often with the message "Alacrán is damaged and can't be opened". It is not damaged.

  1. Install. Open the downloaded .dmg and drag Alacrán into Applications.
  2. Run this in Terminal, once. It clears the quarantine flag macOS puts on downloaded files. Use it only on the app you downloaded from this site or the official releases page.
    xattr -cr "/Applications/Alacran.app"
  3. Open Alacrán from Applications.

You only need this for the first install. Updates inside the app do not need it. Prefer to read more? Read the setup guide.