Opening your briefing
Munshi reads your WhatsApp, surfaces what actually needs you, drafts replies and chase-ups in your voice, and turns scheduling chatter into a calendar. Nothing to install — sign in, type a code into WhatsApp, and your first briefing arrives in minutes.
munshi · n. · clerk, secretary, scribe; the literate hand who keeps your books and writes your letters
Free during early access · limited seats · ready in ~3 minutes
Munshi is in early access. You can sign in and connect right now — no call, no installer, no card. Seats are limited while the service is free, so if you hit a "at capacity" message, leave your details and you'll hear back within a day.
One read with your first coffee: what kind of day it is, your top priorities with the stakes spelled out, who to chase — connected across every chat, not per-chat noise.
Tasks extracted automatically, with owners and real dates. People who've gone quiet on you get flagged — and a chase message in your voice is one tap away.
"Saturday 4 PM at Saraswati CHS" becomes an entry — with who it's with and why it matters. Thirty minutes before, Munshi sends you a prep note.
Talk to Munshi like a person: "push everything to Friday", "what's pending from Raul?", "drop the old deal tasks". It answers — and it acts, showing you exactly what it did.
Real UI, fictional names. This is what Munshi hands you instead of the scroll.
Good morning. Today is about the Saraswati site — Suresh confirmed the 11 AM visit but the revised elevation drawing still needs your sign-off, and Mehul has gone quiet on it for two days. The society AGM notice also landed: they've moved it to Sunday. Otherwise a manageable day.
One synthesis across every chat, ranked by stakes — with the buttons right there. Mark done, push a day, or draft the chase in your voice. Items you act on disappear.
Talk to it like a person. It answers from everything it knows — and acts, with a receipt for every change. It remembers what was agreed weeks ago, too.
Dates pulled from chat become entries with who and why. Thirty minutes before each one, a prep note lands on your phone: open items, numbers that may come up, what was last agreed.
The whole point of Munshi is to do something deeply personal — read your WhatsApp. So the privacy guarantees can't be a footnote. Here's exactly what we built and what we promise.
Every WhatsApp message body is encrypted with AES-256-GCM by your own bridge before it's stored, using a key generated just for your account. The database holds opaque ciphertext, isolated to your private namespace behind per-user security rules.
Your messages exist for one purpose: your own briefings. No analytics on content, no cross-user aggregation, no advertising, and nothing is ever used to train AI models. The only party that reads plaintext is Gemini, at the moment of summarisation — and Google doesn't train on that either.
Mark any chat as Hidden and the bridge drops it before storing, summarising, or logging. Your own assistant doesn't see those messages — they were never ingested in the first place.
One tap in the app severs the live WhatsApp link. Your bridge logs out, future messages stop flowing. Summaries you've already approved stay; the mirror stops.
One typed confirmation wipes every message, chat, task, event, and draft Munshi has ever stored for you. Permanent, immediate, no "deleted-but-still-recoverable" fine print.
Each user gets their own bridge process and their own data namespace. No cross-user aggregation, no shared inboxes, no analytics on your behaviour. Munshi is a service of one — yours.
Your messages exist for you, and only you. They are encrypted at rest with a key unique to your account, walled into your own namespace, and touched by exactly one process: the bridge that builds your briefings. No human reads them, nothing is mined or resold, and one tap deletes everything — permanently, immediately, no questions.
There is nothing to download and no computer to keep on. Munshi hosts your bridge; you just link WhatsApp to it — the same way you'd link WhatsApp Web, except you type a short code instead of scanning anything. All from the phone in your hand.
Open the Munshi app in your phone's browser and sign in with Google. Set your title and organisation once — that's the context Munshi uses to judge what matters to you.
Enter your WhatsApp number and tap Connect WhatsApp. An 8-character code appears. In WhatsApp: Settings → Linked Devices → Link a device → Link with phone number instead — type the code.
Your recent chats sync in, and within a couple of minutes the first briefing is ready — what needs you, who owes you what, and what's landing on your calendar. Add Munshi to your home screen and it behaves like any other app.
Munshi installs straight from the browser. Once added, it opens full-screen with its own icon, and can send you your morning brief as a notification.
iPhone (Safari): open hellomunshi.com/app.html → tap the Share button (square with ↑) → scroll → Add to Home Screen → Add.
Android (Chrome): open the app → tap the ⋮ menu → Add to Home screen (or the Install app banner when it appears) → Install.
Prefer to run everything on your own hardware? The bridge is open source and self-hostable — get in touch and we'll point you at the docs.