Nobody wants another app.
Frondesk started as a tool we built for ourselves: one phone number that could read the inbox, move the meeting, find the file - without opening five tabs to do it. It worked well enough that we kept going.
The problem, plainly
Modern life is administered. Email, calendar, files, contacts, the systems behind your projects - each one solved its own slice beautifully, and left you to be the integration layer. The tab-switching, the "let me find that," the copying of one app's answer into another app's box: that's a human doing routing work that software should be doing.
The industry's usual answer is another app - another icon, another login, another inbox to check. We think that's the wrong direction. The number of places you have to look should go down, not up.
Why a phone number, of all things
We picked the least glamorous interface on purpose. A text thread works on every phone ever made. It needs no install, no tutorial, no onboarding tour. You've been using it your whole adult life, and it's already where you handle things that matter.
So Frondesk lives behind one number. You text it the way you'd text a person - "move my 3pm to Thursday," "any emails from the landlord?" - and behind the number a concierge routes the request to the right connection, does the work, and answers in the same thread. Each connection is its own sealed desk: your Gmail desk can't see your Outlook desk, and no desk can see anyone else's anything.
The lines we don't cross
Some decisions are structural, not policy. Your password never exists on our side - connections happen on Google's or Microsoft's own consent screens, and Frondesk holds only a token you can revoke. Which account a message may act on is decided by verified signals, never by what a sender types. And the business is the service itself: we don't sell data, we don't build advertising profiles, and mobile numbers and messaging consent are never shared with anyone for marketing. If a front desk isn't worth paying for on its own merits, it doesn't deserve to exist.
The long version of all this is in our Privacy Policy and Terms - written in plain English, because policies you can't read are policies you can't hold us to.
Who's behind it
Frondesk is designed, built, and operated by Runaway Studios Inc., a small software company in Chicago that has been shipping software since 2012. Frondesk is built the way a small shop builds: slowly where it matters, security decisions before feature decisions, and a beta kept deliberately small while early users shape it.
If you have a question, privacy@frondesk.ai reaches us - and a person, not a ticket queue, answers.