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Superhuman makes you faster at email. Central gets you out of it.
Get your hours back. Inbox handled, meetings captured, CRM updated. Without living in your keyboard.
Never miss another call.
Speed vs. removal.
Superhuman is the fastest email client ever built. The keyboard shortcuts are unmatched. The AI features are genuinely well-designed. If your bottleneck is email speed, Superhuman is the answer.
If your bottleneck is email itself, you need something different. Superhuman speeds up the same workflow. You still read, decide, and reply. Central removes you from the loop. A meeting request becomes a calendar invite. A client email becomes a CRM update and a drafted reply in your voice. You come back to find outcomes, not a queue.
Faster is still you doing the work.
Superhuman's AI is reactive. It helps when you decide to engage. It does not proactively triage, create tasks, update your CRM, or write meeting notes. You still process every email. You just do it faster. CRM integrations require the Business plan at $40/month. There is no meeting notes feature. And at $30 to $40/user/month, costs compound fast for teams.
What this means in practice:
AI assists when you open and engage; nothing happens before you do
No calendar integration: meeting emails require manual booking
No task extraction: action items stay in email until you move them
CRM requires the Business plan at $40/month, not the $30 Starter
No meeting notes or action item extraction
At $30 to $40/user/month, a 5-person team pays $150 to $200/month for a faster email client
Your inbox knows your business.
Central connects to your CRM, your Slack, and the same knowledge base your front desk runs on. It acts before you open anything. You come back to find things handled.
Every signal that comes in becomes an action taken.
What this means in practice:
A prospect emails at 11pm. Reply drafted in your voice, follow-up task added. You approve in 30 seconds.
A call ends. Notes written, action items assigned, CRM synced. Waiting when you wake up.
A thread goes quiet. Chase queued automatically. One click to send.
Your daily briefing lands. Three things need a decision. Everything else is done.
What each product actually does
Feature
AI model
Calendar integration
Tasks created from email
CRM integration
Meeting notes and action items
Drafts without prompting
Daily briefing
Ask Central included
Unified inbox (multiple accounts)
Pricing
Free trial
Superhuman
Reactive (helps you go faster)
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Business plan only ($40/month)
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Requires you to open and engage
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$30/month Starter; $40/month Business
✓ 7 days
Central
Proactive (acts before you open)
✓ Meeting requests become invites
✓ Automatic
✓ All plans
✓ Automatic
✓ Queued in your voice
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Confirm from Central pricing page
✓ 10 days
Five minutes. No shortcuts to learn.
Connect your inbox, calendar, and CRM and Central starts acting on your email. No onboarding session. No keyboard shortcuts to memorize. Most people notice the difference the first morning.
Don't take our word for it
"Superhuman made me genuinely fast at email. But fast at email is still email. I added Central and the next morning there were tasks waiting, a meeting on my calendar, and my CRM updated. I hadn't been in my inbox at all."
Ethan Walker
Marketing Manager, BrightWave Digital
"Superhuman made me genuinely fast at email. But fast at email is still email. I added Central and the next morning there were tasks waiting, a meeting on my calendar, and my CRM updated. I hadn't been in my inbox at all."
Ethan Walker
Marketing Manager, BrightWave Digital
"Superhuman made me genuinely fast at email. But fast at email is still email. I added Central and the next morning there were tasks waiting, a meeting on my calendar, and my CRM updated. I hadn't been in my inbox at all."
Ethan Walker
Marketing Manager, BrightWave Digital