The Email Invasion Crisis

Your inbox has been hijacked. Every day, dozens of low-value emails compete for your attention, forcing you to waste precious time sorting through noise instead of focusing on what matters.

The Hidden Tax of Email Overload

The average professional now spends over 3 hours daily managing emails, with each interruption costing 23 minutes of lost focus.

Daily inbox interruptions~120 emails
Useless emails86%
Truly important emailsOnly 14%

Email time for a 8-Hour Workday

28%of workday
Email
Management (2.2h)
Productive
Work (5.8h)

Email Attention Justification

14%justify attention
Justified
Attention
Not Justified
(86%)

86% of your email time (and about 24% of your workday) is wasted on messages that don't deserve your immediate attention.

The Real Cost of Email Overload

I am...

As an independent professional or business owner/manager, every hour spent on email management is money directly out of your pocket. Foxgate helps you reclaim billable hours and maximize your revenue by eliminating low-value email interactions.

Increased billable time
Direct bottom-line impact
Company-wide impact
Financial Impact of email time
$3,000
1 employee

For one employee, with a monthly salary of $3,000 (~$150/day) you are spending in email time:

Daily cost:
$58
Monthly cost (20 workdays):
$1,160
Yearly cost (240 workdays):
$13,920

Nearly $13,920 per year and per employee just for opening some emails!

Wasted Time

On average, 28% of your workday (2.6 hours) is spent processing emails, and 86% of these emails are not important.

With 86% of your 2.6 hours (2.2 hours) spent on low-value emails:

Per day:2.2 hours
Per week:11 hours
Per month:44 hours
Per year:528 hours (22 days)
What researches says

According to McKinsey & Company research, employees spend an average of 28% of their workday managing emails, which represents approximately 2.6 hours daily. Radicati Group's 2016 study found that only 14% of received emails are truly critical.

Based on Radicati Group's findings, 86% of email time is considered wasted on non-critical emails, equivalent to 2.2h daily that could be redirected to higher-value tasks.

A 2015 study by American Psychological Association (APA) showed that constant interruptions can reduce productivity by 20-40%, with email notifications being a major source of distraction. Additional research by RescueTime (2017) found that workers check their emails every 6 minutes on average, resulting in significant attention fragmentation.

Research by Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) in 2018 confirms that each email interruption requires an average of 25 minutes to fully regain concentration, up from 23 minutes in her earlier 2008 study. This context switching penalty significantly reduces daily productive time.

Personal Life Impact

2.6 hours daily is equivalent to:

1

15.5 hours per week — almost 2 full workdays

2

62 hours per month — more than a full week of vacation

3

744 hours per year — a full month of your life

By filtering your emails better, you gain back a week of freedom every month.

What You Could Do Instead
💪
Hit the gym 3x per week
🍿
Watch an entire Netflix series
🚀
Launch a side project
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Quality time with family
📚
Read 2 books per month
✈️
Plan your next vacation
🧘
Daily 30min meditation
🎓
Learn a new skill
Productivity Transformation

Recovering 86% of these 2.6 hours would dramatically transform your productivity:

Current productive time:5.4h daily
Potential productive time:7.7h daily
+53% Productivity Boost

By eliminating email waste, your productive hours would increase from 5.4 to 7.7 hours per day — that's like having 1.6 extra workdays every week!

...But you should also consider the time you loose with your brain trying to focus back on your work

Focus Disruption

Research shows it takes 20-25 minutes to regain deep focus after an interruption.

Even brief interruptions are costly

Even checking a quick email costs 5-10 minutes of recovery time.

Frequent email checking

The average professional checks email every 10-15 minutes, creating ~15 interruptions daily.

Lost focus time calculation

15 interruptions × 10 minutes recovery = 2.5 additional hours lost every day.

Lost Focus Cost
Context switching:23 minutes per interruption
Lost focus time:2.5h daily
Financial Impact (for unefficient working time)

With your salary of $3,000/month:

Daily loss:
$103
Monthly loss:
$2,060
Yearly loss:
$24,720
Productivity Invoice
Issued to: Professional
Date: Annual Statement

LOST PRODUCTIVITY STATEMENT

ITEMDAILY RATE
Email Time
2.7 hours × $18.75/hr
$50.63
Lost Focus Time
2.5 hours × $18.75/hr
$46.88
Context Switching
15 interruptions × $0.35 each
$5.25
Daily Subtotal
$103
Monthly Total (20 workdays)
$2,060
ANNUAL TOTAL
up to $24,720
For a $3,000/month salary

~50% of your workday productivity wasted

This invoice is presented to demonstrate the actual cost of email overload.

Foxgate helps you reduce this cost by up to 80%.

...This money is the equivalent of...

Your annual loss of $0 is the equivalent of:

💻
MacBook Pro$1,900 each
📱
iPhone 16 Pro Max$1,500 each
✈️
Business class flights$3,000 each
🏝️
Luxury vacations$5,000 each
🚘
Car lease payments$600 /month
👔
Premium office setup$2,500 each
🏢
Office rent$1,200 each
🎓
Team trainings$800 /month

By using Foxgate, you could make sur most of this money is used for productive time... instead of using it for reading non important emails, or letting these emails take your focus.

Your New Email Shield

How Foxgate Works

Foxgate provides you with a separate gateway email address (yourname@foxgate.io) that you use instead of your personal email whenever you sign up for services online.

The Problem

You give your real email address directly to websites, services, and social platforms:

Websites track your behavior
Marketing emails flood your inbox
Lead bots harvest your address

Result: Your inbox is overrun with noise, your privacy is compromised, and your attention is constantly disrupted.

The Solution

You use your Foxgate email address instead:

yourname@foxgate.io
AI filters marketing emails
Your real email stays protected

Result: Break the lead bot cycle, reclaim your privacy, and only allow important emails to reach your real inbox.

How It Works
Use your Foxgate email

Provide yourname@foxgate.io for all your online signups

AI analyzes emails

Our AI determines the importance of each email

Important (14%)

Forwarded to your real inbox

Non-urgent (86%)

Organized in Foxgate

Key Benefits

Complete Control

You decide who gets your real email address. Everyone else only ever sees your Foxgate address.

AI Protection

Our intelligent system identifies truly important messages and only forwards those to your primary inbox.

Enhanced Privacy

Your real contact information stays private, dramatically reducing unwanted outreach and marketing spam.

The Two Biggest Email Threats

Marketing Barrage

Your inbox has become a marketing battleground, with brands fighting for your attention. Nearly 50% of all emails are promotional with no real value.

The Marketing Impact:
1

The typical professional wastes 1.5 hours weekly just managing promotional emails

2

Every marketing email contains tracking pixels that monitor when, where, and how you open it

3

Each marketing email consumes 5-15 seconds of your attention, even just to delete

Lead Bot Invasion

Publishing your email on LinkedIn, your website, or social profiles exposes you to automated scraping by lead generation bots that harvest your information without consent.

The Lead Bot Cycle
Public Profile
Scraping Bot
Lead Database
Your Inbox
  1. 1

    Bots scrape your email from public profiles and websites

  2. 2

    Your email is added to prospect databases

  3. 3

    These databases are sold between marketing companies

  4. 4

    Each sale multiplies your exposure exponentially

  5. 5

    You receive progressively more unsolicited sales emails

Professionals with public emails see a 40% increase in unsolicited emails every 6 months as their address propagates through sales databases.

Take back control of your digital identity

Stop giving out your real email address. With Foxgate's protected gateway email, you can interact online without exposing your primary inbox to endless marketing and spam.

Get Your Protected Email Address