# Sodaroad > Sodaroad is a modern inbox with a native chat layer and agents built in. Claim an address, bring your Gmail if you want it, sort mail into channels, and let agents draft, triage and reply — with every action shown and approved. Sodaroad is an email product: claim an address like you@sodaroad.com, talk to other Sodaroad users in native conversations, email everyone else, sort mail into deterministic channels, and assign agents to channels to triage, draft and reply with approval. Chat, mail and channels are free; agents are billed at cost from $10 a month. ## Pages - [Sodaroad — the inbox that talks back](https://www.sodaroad.com): Homepage: what Sodaroad is, the product demos, pricing summary and FAQs. - [Product overview](https://www.sodaroad.com/product): Chat, mail, agents and channels in one inbox. - [Chat](https://www.sodaroad.com/product/chat): Native conversations between Sodaroad addresses, with polls, unsend and an email bridge for everyone else. - [Mail](https://www.sodaroad.com/product/mail): A fast inbox at your own address, with Gmail as an optional backwards-compatibility layer. - [Agents](https://www.sodaroad.com/product/agents): Agents that triage, draft and reply on the channels you assign them to, with every run shown. - [Channels](https://www.sodaroad.com/product/channels): Deterministic lanes for your mail, authored with AI help and run without it. - [Pricing](https://www.sodaroad.com/pricing): Free for chat and mail. Paid plans buy agent compute at cost. - [Customers](https://www.sodaroad.com/customers): How teams use Sodaroad. - [Compare](https://www.sodaroad.com/compare): Sodaroad against Gmail, Superhuman and Slack. - [Security](https://www.sodaroad.com/security): Encryption at rest, a locked OAuth scope set, and the responsible-disclosure policy. - [About](https://www.sodaroad.com/about): Who builds Sodaroad and why. - [Blog](https://www.sodaroad.com/blog): Writing about email, agents and building Sodaroad. - [Changelog](https://www.sodaroad.com/changelog): What shipped, by date. - [Help center](https://www.sodaroad.com/help): Answers to the questions people ask before and after signing up. - [Managing and deleting your data](https://www.sodaroad.com/help/manage-and-delete): What Sodaroad stores, how to export it, how to delete it. - [Contact](https://www.sodaroad.com/contact): How to reach the team. - [Privacy Policy](https://www.sodaroad.com/privacy): What Sodaroad collects, how it is used and how long it is kept. - [Terms of Service](https://www.sodaroad.com/terms): The terms that govern use of Sodaroad. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Sodaroad? Sodaroad is an inbox with a chat layer and agents built in. You claim an address like you@sodaroad.com, talk to other Sodaroad users in real conversations, email everyone else, and assign agents to channels of your mail to triage, draft and reply with your approval. ### Do I need to give up Gmail? No. A Sodaroad address works on its own, and you can connect Gmail so your existing mail lands in the same place. Sodaroad reads and sends through Gmail's API; nothing is moved or copied anywhere it does not belong, and you can disconnect at any time. ### What do the agents actually do? An agent is assigned to one or more channels of your mail. It reads what arrives there, drafts the reply you were going to write, files what should be filed, and shows you every run. Nothing goes out under your name without your approval unless you explicitly grant that permission. ### Is Sodaroad free? Chat, mail, channels and sorting are free. Paid plans start at $10 a month and buy agent compute at cost: a dollar of plan is a dollar of model usage, and the ledger shows every cent. ### Is my mail encrypted? Yes. Message bodies, previews, attachments and OAuth tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they reach the database, with keys that never live alongside the data. Sodaroad does not train models on your mail and does not sell or share it. ### Can people without Sodaroad talk to me? Yes. Anyone with an email address can email your Sodaroad address, and anyone you add to a chat takes part by email from their own inbox. They see a clean email; you see a conversation. ## Contact - Email: hello@sodaroad.com - Security reports: security@sodaroad.com (policy at https://www.sodaroad.com/security)