Email forensics for professionals

FROM
INBOX
TO INSIGHT

The magnet that finds the needle in the haystack. Email is still the lowest common denominator — messy, fragmented, and frustrating to navigate. MailBraid changes that.

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Free for 30 days · No credit card · Windows 10/11 · Outlook required
10–30×
Faster than
manual search
30 sec
To analyse
5,000 emails
100%
Local — nothing
leaves your machine
Braided river channels converging into clarity
THE
PROBLEM

Finding the answer the old way means opening Outlook, scrolling back through hundreds of emails, cross-referencing replies, trying to remember which folder you filed things in. It takes hour if not days — and you still might miss something.

Real work and decisions still happen in email, yet inboxes are messy, fragmented, and frustrating to navigate. MailBraid transforms this under-leveraged dataset into actionable insight by structuring, cleaning, and visualising communication history. It reads your Outlook mailbox, builds a structured index, and gives you a fast, clean way to search and reconstruct the history of any project, relationship, or decision — in seconds.

MailBraid is the magnet that finds
the needle in the haystack.
The product

THREE VIEWS.
COMPLETE PICTURE.

MailBraid main search interface
Search — threads, people, attachments, content
MailBraid thread reconstruction
Threads — reconstructed conversations with actor analysis
MailBraid actors view
Actors — who drove decisions, who observed
MailBraid attachment version tracking
Attachments — every document version, every hand it passed through
Getting started

INSTALL.
INDEX. SEARCH.

01
Install on Windows
Download and run the installer. MailBraid connects directly to your local Outlook data file. Setup takes under 15 minutes. Requires Windows 10 or 11 with Microsoft Outlook.
02
Index your mailbox
MailBraid scans your email metadata and builds a local index. Depending on mailbox size this takes between 30 seconds and a few minutes. Everything stays on your machine.
03
Search everything
Search by name, company, subject, attachment, or any term. Threads reconstruct instantly. Refresh daily with one click to stay current. Results in under a second.
See it working

WATCH MAILBRAID
IN ACTION.

Product Overview — 3 min
Index a mailbox, run a search, reconstruct a thread. End to end in under three minutes.
Thread Reconstruction & Actor Analysis — 2 min
How MailBraid rebuilds conversations and maps who drove decisions versus who just observed.
Document Version Tracking — 2 min
Every version of every document, every hand it passed through — automatically surfaced.
What people are saying

IT PAYS FOR ITSELF
THE FIRST TIME YOU USE IT.

You won't need to use this every day — but when you need to (and you will!) — it pays for itself the first time you use it.
Early user — professional services
Invaluable in tracing the evolution of a long running issue on my project.
Early user — project management
It’s great — I used it as a handover summary from my project.
Early user — programme management
Privacy

RUNS LOCALLY.
METADATA,
NOT MAILBOXES.
NOTHING LEAVES
YOUR COMPUTER.

MailBraid analyses email structure and metadata — subjects, participants, dates, attachments. No email content is transmitted. No cloud. No subscription dependency. The index is encrypted at rest on your machine.

100% local processing
All analysis runs on your machine. No internet connection required after installation.
Index encrypted at rest
The local index file is encrypted — not readable natively. Your data is protected.
Metadata, not mailboxes
MailBraid analyses email structure — not a full copy of your mailbox or its attachments.
Built by auditors and programme managers
Chain of custody matters. Tamper-proof detection means you can trust what MailBraid tells you.
30-day free trial — v1.4.3

DOWNLOAD.
TRY FREE.

30 days. Every feature. No credit card.

Download Free Trial — v1.4.3
Free for 30 days · Windows 10/11 · Microsoft Outlook required · No credit card
Questions? sales@mailbraid.com · Privacy policy
Documentation

USER GUIDES.

PDF
Quick Reference — v1.4.3
Single-page cheat sheet. All key actions, search tips, tab-by-tab reference, and troubleshooting at a glance.
↓ Download Quick Reference
PDF
Detailed User Guide — v1.4.3
Complete guide covering installation, first run, indexing, searching, the three views, and privacy.
↓ Download User Guide
PDF
Reports User Reference — v1.4
Reference guide for MailBraid’s reporting features — Audit Trail, Project Brief, Relationship Intelligence.
↓ Download Reports Reference
PDF
MailBraid vs AI — One Pager
A concise comparison of MailBraid and AI-based email tools. Understand where MailBraid fits and why it matters.
↓ Download One Pager