WhatsApp and Gmail Had a Baby, it’s Called: Spike

Every growing company knows that a unified communication platform is a prerequisite to success. From closing deals, business transactions, to regular updates, team alignment is paramount to achieving targeted goals. For the past several years, leaders have been scouring for efficient communication tools and hacks to make the streamlining of workspace mail and messaging seamless and effective. Platforms like Gmail and WhatsApp are among some of the most popular for organizations. While there’s a degree of inconvenience in platform-switching from answering emails to messaging via chat apps, the idea of multi-modal communication has become a norm that users simply need to navigate their way through.

With remote work setups rising due to the recent pandemic, a flawless organizational communication model has never been more important. With employees spread out in different locations, the binding thread that holds an organization together heavily relies on these messaging tools. What’s more, with digital opportunities sprouting left and right, the need to respond efficiently and urgently could make or break business growth.

While Gmail and WhatsApp offer tremendous benefits, one startup still saw the void of their lack of synchronization, collaboration, and connection, leading to wasted productivity hours. Spike, the first collaborative email platform, offers the power of email with the simplicity of chat. Imagine WhatsApp and Gmail having a baby: it’s the all-in-one communication tool that’s set to revolutionize the future of communication.

The World’s First Conversational Email App

Spike allows users to chat in a conversational email just like they do on WhatsApp. More often than not, email threads are clunky, confusing, and cluttered, making it difficult to track important and urgent messages with repetitive and unnecessary signatures, headers, and stiff formalities. Spike lets users go straight to the point with no-nonsense conversations. Simply put, the functionality of traditional email no longer cuts it. Modern business communication should be straightforward and cut-to-the-chase. The huge amount of time that can be saved from the tedious cycle of greetings, signatures, and window time for a response makes a vast difference in productivity.

Some of Spike’s cutting-edge features include:

Priority email inbox - Declutters users’ inboxes with irrelevant and obsolete emails without deleting, creating a folder, or tagging messages.

Groups/collaborative inbox - This simple and functional collaboration tool helps teams plan, manage and execute in real time all together.

Video meetings - Users can save time by instantaneously jumping onto video meetings without switching apps or contexts.

Online notes - Spike enables users to jot down notes, add to-dos, and set reminders without switching between emails, messengers, and docs.

Tasks/to-do list - Juggling tasks and answering emails are time-consuming for any employee. Spike allows them to execute all these activities in one platform, from task notifications to management – all in real time.

Voice messages - Spike’s highly-beneficial WhatsApp feature. It allows users to make quick voice notes for fast, personal, and nuanced messaging.

Supersearch - Manual scroll search is obsolete. Spike’s advanced email search allows users to filter by person, tag, keyword, or file.

Calendar - Spike optimizes smarter scheduling and better time management by syncing all of a user’s calendars together.

File management - Spike provides users with an advanced preview feature inside the messages, which makes finding the right file fast and easy without downloading it.

Is it Better than Gmail?

Gmail is a classic, and the insurmountable benefits and hacks it offers to multiple global industries are unparalleled. But as the rapid pace of the digital world further advances, Gmail is slowly becoming a flawed tool with gaps that could be bridged. Spike is simply Gmail ver 2.0. What’s more, it has a read indicator that allows users to see if their email has been seen by the receiver without third-party software. Through this, follow-ups are made easier, and the urgency of messages is emphasized.

To put it in perspective:

Source: Spike

Spike is about to expand its platform to take their solutions to greater heights and further enhance the future of workspace communications. This expansion is set to be announced in the next several weeks.