About Talking Unicorn
Talking Unicorn is a small, independent email service. We host private mail infrastructure on your own domain so you can step out of the surveillance economy without giving up your inbox.
What we actually do
We run a mail server. A real one — Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, the same software that powers most of the deliverable email on the internet. We don't scan your messages to sell you things, we don't train ad-targeting models on what you write, and we don't share your data with anyone you didn't put in the To line.
On top of that we layer AI tools that you control: an inbox that sorts itself by what needs your attention, voice dictation for replies, a follow-up tracker that nudges you when someone hasn't written back, and a vault for saving important emails as PDFs. Everything runs in our infrastructure, on models we operate. If you turn a feature off, it stops doing anything.
Why we started
Mail is the longest-running piece of personal infrastructure most people have. Your address is older than your phone number, older than your LinkedIn, older than the company you currently work for. It carries twenty years of conversations and ten years of receipts. Renting that from a company whose business model is selling ads against it has always felt like a bad trade.
We wanted an inbox that worked for us instead of for advertisers, and when we couldn't find one priced reasonably for normal people (most private-mail hosts price like enterprise services), we built it.
Who runs it
Talking Unicorn is operated by Talking Unicorn Inc., a Florida corporation. We're a small, independent team — not VC-backed. We don't have product roadmaps shaped by quarterly growth meetings. Our customers are the only people we have to satisfy.
If you want to know more about who specifically is on the other end of your support email, write to hello@talkingunicorn.email. We'll tell you.
What you can expect from us
- We won't read your mail.
- We won't sell your data. We don't have a "data" to sell.
- We won't break our pricing. If you sign up at today's rate, your renewal is at that same rate for as long as you stay subscribed. If we raise prices for new customers, you stay grandfathered at the price you signed up at.
- We'll keep your mail working. If we ever shut down, we'll give you at least 90 days' notice and a clean export of everything.
- We'll answer your email. Slowly sometimes, since we're small — but always personally, never by bot.
What we expect from you
Pay your bill. Don't send spam. Don't use the service to harass anyone. Don't try to evade our abuse-prevention systems. Read the Acceptable Use Policy — it's short and reasonable.
Contact
- General questions: hello@talkingunicorn.email
- Support: support@talkingunicorn.email
- Abuse reports: abuse@talkingunicorn.email
- Press: press@talkingunicorn.email
We try to respond within one business day. If we're slower than that, write again — sometimes mail gets buried even on a mail-shop's own inbox.