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Use Vesence in Outlook

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Vesence in Outlook helps you check, improve, shorten, and track changes in email drafts.

Use it before sending important emails, when polishing a draft, or when you want a reviewer to see what changed in an email.

Before sending an email

Use Vesence before sending when you want to check:

  • Whether the email is clear, complete, and professional
  • Whether the subject line, recipients, and attachments are right
  • Whether the email matches the thread, attached files, or prior instructions
  • Whether the message should be shorter, firmer, friendlier, or more polished
  • Whether visible tracked-style edits are needed before approval

Vesence can prepare or revise drafts, but the user decides whether to send.

What Vesence can use in Outlook

In Outlook, Vesence works with the email, thread, draft, attachment, or calendar context you are using.

It can use the current draft, the current email thread, attachments, mailbox search results, and related context where access is available.

Drafts, sends, folder changes, and calendar actions remain under user review or approval where required.

Workspace in Outlook

The Outlook add-in includes a workspace where you can add documents and other materials as context for Vesence.

Use the workspace when Vesence should consider another document, such as a term sheet, precedent, prior version, template, styleguide, or supporting material.

See: Vesence Workspace for more information.

Actions in Outlook

Check

Check is a built-in prompt for reviewing an email before it is sent.

Press Check when you want Vesence to catch issues in the email itself, the recipient list, attachments, subject line, or consistency with the thread or attachments.

Check can cover:

  • Language & Grammar — wording, grammar, tone, clarity, typos, and professionalism
  • Recipients — missing recipients, unnecessary recipients, or To/Cc/Bcc issues
  • Attachments — missing attachments, wrong attachments, outdated files, or files mentioned but not attached
  • Subject Line — vague, missing, or inconsistent subject lines
  • Consistency — mismatched dates, names, document titles, amounts, references, or statements

You can also ask with prompts such as:

  • "Check this email before I send it."
  • "Check whether the right attachments are included."
  • "Check the recipient list and subject line."
  • "Check whether the email is consistent with the attached document."

To run a Check

Show steps
  1. Open or reply to the email you want to review so the draft is in front of you.
  2. Press Check in the suggested prompts above the chat.
  3. Read Vesence's findings, reported inline in the chat — there is no separate results screen in Outlook.
  4. Fix what you agree with — wording, recipients, attachments, subject line, or consistency with the thread — then send.

Improve

Improve is a built-in prompt for rewriting or polishing an email draft while keeping the message's meaning.

Press Improve when the draft is mostly right but needs clearer language, better tone, stronger structure, or a more professional style.

It can help with polishing wording, improving tone, making the structure easier to follow, making the email more complete, and aligning the message with the user's writing style where available.

You can also ask with prompts such as:

  • "Improve this email and keep the same message."
  • "Make this more professional."
  • "Improve the structure and clarity."
  • "Make this sound firm but polite."

Concise

Concise is a built-in prompt for shortening an email draft while preserving the key message.

Press Concise when an email is too long, repetitive, or indirect.

It can help with removing unnecessary wording, making the message more direct, keeping only the key points, shortening long explanations, and making the email easier to read.

You can also ask with prompts such as:

  • "Make this email more concise."
  • "Shorten this while keeping the key message."
  • "Remove unnecessary wording."
  • "Make this easier to read quickly."

Start Recording Tracked Changes

Use Start Recording Tracked Changes when you want to make manual edits to an email draft with Vesence tracked changes.

It lets reviewers see exactly what changed before the email is accepted, rejected, or sent. While recording is active, edits to the draft are shown as visible changes rather than silently replacing the original wording.

Useful when:

  • A partner or colleague wants to review the exact wording changes before approving the email.
  • You are revising a sensitive email and want a clear record of what was changed.
  • You want to compare the original draft against your manual edits before sending.
  • You are collaborating on a draft and need changes to stay visible until they are accepted or rejected.

To record tracked changes

Show steps
  1. Open or reply to the email you want to edit.
  2. Press Record tracked changes in the top bar of the add-in to start recording.
  3. Make your edits, or ask Vesence to. Each change now shows as a visible tracked change rather than silently replacing the original wording.
  4. Share the draft for review — a reviewer can see exactly what changed.
  5. Accept or reject each change until the wording is final.
  6. Press the button again to stop recording, then send the email.

Vesence in Outlook Calendar

Vesence can help with calendar work in Outlook when you need to plan meetings, check availability, prepare invites, or understand what is already scheduled.

Use Vesence in Outlook Calendar when scheduling should take account of your calendar, your colleagues' availability, other attendees, email context, or meeting materials.

What Vesence can do

  • Check your calendar for availability
  • Find suitable meeting times based on the requested date, time range, duration, and attendees
  • Draft and send calendar invitations without leaving the email thread
  • Add or update meeting titles, attendees, locations, online meeting details, agenda text, and attachments where available
  • Summarize calendar events, meeting details, and upcoming commitments
  • Use email thread context to prepare a meeting invite or suggest next steps
  • Help identify scheduling conflicts or missing meeting information
  • View colleagues' availability when scheduling a meeting

Calendar actions remain under user review or approval where required. Vesence can prepare the invite or proposed changes, but the user decides what is sent or updated.

See the calendar view

When you open the calendar, Vesence shows a Pick slots view. Expand the steps below to explore it — select any control to see what it does — with a walkthrough for proposing meeting times.

To pick meeting slots

Show steps

Pick slots

June 2026
Calendar Visibility:
Selected Timeslots:
Jun 19, 11:30 AM (1h)
  1. From the email draft, open Calendar in the top bar of the add-in to open the Pick slots view.
  2. Choose whose calendars to see. Toggle your own events and your colleagues' busy times so you can find a slot that works for everyone.
  3. Drag across the grid to select one or more time slots. Selected times are listed underneath.
  4. Either drop the times into the chat with Add to chat — so you can ask Vesence to propose them in an email — or have Vesence prepare an invite with Create invite.
  5. Review the proposed email or invite. Nothing is sent until you approve it.

Manage attachments

Use Manage attachments when you want to review or update the files attached to an email before sending it.

Vesence can help add attachments, remove attachments, rename attachments, and change the order of attachments.

This is useful when the email mentions specific files, when several versions are attached, or when attachments should appear in a clear order for the recipient.

Example prompts:

  • "Add the latest version of the agreement as an attachment."
  • "Remove the outdated attachment before sending."
  • "Rename the attachments so the file names are clear."
  • "Put the attachments in the order they are mentioned in the email."

See the add-in

This is the Outlook compose pane. Select any control to learn what it does.

A
To
JMJordan Mills
CcALAnders Lund
SubjectSeries A — revised term sheet
PDFTerm Sheet v3.pdf248 KB

Hi Jordan,

Thanks for the call earlier. I've attached the revised term sheet reflecting the points we discussed — the updated valuation, the amended option pool, and the new closing date of 30 June.

Could you review the liquidation preference in section 4 and confirm it matches your understanding? I'd like to get this in front of the board before the end of the week.

Happy to jump on another call if that's easier. Let me know what works.

Best,

Erik

Draft savedInbox — Erik Lindgren
Vesence

Example workflows

Pre-send email check

Example prompts:

  • "Check this email before sending."
  • "Does the email mention any attachment that is missing?"
  • "Are the dates and document names consistent?"

Improve an email draft

Example prompts:

  • "Improve this email but keep it friendly."
  • "Make this more polished and professional."
  • "Make this clearer for a client."

Shorten a long email

Example prompts:

  • "Make this more concise."
  • "Cut this down to the key points."
  • "Shorten the background section."

Review changes before sending

Example prompts:

  • "Review the changes before I send this."
  • "Revise this with visible edits."
  • "Show what changed before I send it."

Summarize thread context

Example prompts:

  • "What has been decided and what is still open?"
  • "Summarize this thread for a partner."
  • "List the action items and owners."

Tips and limits

  • Ask Vesence to use the current thread when you want thread-specific drafting or checking.
  • Specify the audience: client, counterparty, internal team, partner, or assistant.
  • Tell Vesence the tone: formal, concise, friendly, firm, or neutral.
  • Say whether to reply to the sender only or reply all.
  • Ask Vesence to list assumptions or missing information before drafting sensitive messages.
  • Vesence may need permission to read mailbox content, calendar information, or attachments.
  • Folder, mailbox, calendar, or send-related actions may require user approval.
  • Check recipient lists carefully, especially for reply-all and forwarded messages.