AI-First Engineering

Save 40-50% on every email interaction

Pontius strips the bloat from email output. Less HTML, less whitespace, less noise — more signal. Your AI processes emails faster and cheaper.

This is what AI-first design looks like in practice. We didn't just build commands for AI — we optimized every byte of output.

Raw emails are wasteful

Email clients pack messages with tracking pixels, nested tables, inline styles, excessive whitespace, and legacy HTML. Feed that to an AI and you're burning tokens on garbage.

  • Marketing emails with 10KB of HTML for 50 words of text
  • Reply chains with 15 levels of quoted text
  • Signatures repeated dozens of times in a thread
  • Invisible tracking pixels and metadata

Raw email HTML (simplified)

<html>
  <body>
    <table width="100%" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <td style="font-family:Arial;
                font-size:14px;color:#333;">
                Hi, I need help.
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <img src="tracking.gif" width="1" />
  </body>
</html>

200+ characters to say "Hi, I need help."

Intelligent content extraction

Pontius processes every email before your AI sees it. We extract the actual content, strip the cruft, and deliver clean, compact text.

40-50% token reduction

Typical emails use 40-50% fewer tokens after processing. Complex HTML emails can see 70%+ savings.

Faster responses

Less input = faster processing. Your AI spends time thinking, not parsing HTML tables.

Lower costs

Every token saved is money saved. At scale, this adds up to significant cost reduction.

Better comprehension

Clean text means better AI understanding. No more confusion from HTML artifacts.

The difference in action

Same email, dramatically different token cost.

Raw email (typical)~2,400 tokens

HTML tables, inline CSS, tracking pixels, nested quotes, repeated signatures...

Pontius output~950 tokens

Clean text, clear structure, relevant content only

60% reduction in this example

What gets stripped

Pontius intelligently removes bloat while preserving the content that matters.

HTML markup

Tables, divs, spans, inline styles — gone

Tracking pixels

Invisible 1x1 images and tracking scripts removed

Excessive whitespace

Multiple blank lines collapsed to one

Repeated signatures

Signature blocks deduplicated in threads

Quote chains

Nested replies cleaned up and formatted clearly

Boilerplate

Legal footers and disclaimers trimmed

Clean output, every time

What your AI actually sees — clean, structured, token-efficient.

$ pontius read 37801
From: [email protected]
Subject: New ticket: Account access issue
Date: Jan 5, 2026
Reply-To: [email protected]

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Customer email: [email protected]
Issue: Can't activate license

Hi, I purchased a Pro license but the activation
isn't working. Can you help?

Thanks,
Alex

# Clean, compact output — no HTML bloat, no tracking pixels,
# no excessive whitespace. Just the content that matters.

No HTML tables. No tracking pixels. No repeated signatures. Just the content.

Why this gives you an edge

While others burn tokens on HTML garbage, your AI works faster and cheaper.

40-50%

Average token reduction per email

2x

Faster AI processing time

$$

Real savings on API costs

The compound effect

Process 100 emails in an inbox blitz, save 50% tokens on each — that's like getting 50 emails processed for free. Every session. Every day. Over time, this efficiency advantage compounds into a real competitive edge.

Part of AI-first design

Token efficiency isn't a bolt-on feature — it's core to how Pontius was built. Every command output, every email display, every piece of data is optimized for AI consumption. This is just one example.

Learn about AI-first design

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AI assistants are changing how everyone works. Early adopters will have a massive advantage. Get Pontius today — $99 once, yours forever.