Personal inbox action triage
Find messages that require action, draft the next step, and leave sending to you.
What this workflow does
Find messages that require action, draft the next step, and leave sending to you. It resolves identity, enriches the case with approved evidence, and shows why the proposed route is appropriate before anything is assigned.
What you gain
Important messages stop getting buried.
What the AI agent changes
How this worked before
Rule-based routing handled only clean, predefined fields and broke when the request was incomplete or written in natural language.
What the AI agent changes
The agent can interpret unstructured context, gather missing evidence, explain its recommendation, and pause when confidence is low.
Agent trigger
A new email arrives or the daily inbox review starts.
Inputs
- Process context: email threads, contacts, deadlines, and prior replies
- Approved policies, ownership, and exception rules
Agent flow
- 1
Resolve the case identity and validate source freshness.
- 2
Enrich the case with approved context and show every scoring signal.
- 3
Prepare a prioritized action, reminder, or draft reply with confidence and exceptions.
- 4
Create the approved assignment and notify its owner.
Human decisions
After step 3
The accountable process owner approves a prioritized action, reminder, or draft reply.
Outcome
- Reviewed personal action list
- Evidence, exceptions, and audit trail
Guardrails
- Do not route low-confidence identity matches automatically.
- Use an allowlist of destinations and writable fields.
Risks and mitigations
A wrong identity match can send a case to the wrong owner.
Require deterministic identifiers and expose the routing rationale.
Sources and evidence
Sources establish feasibility or impact. Not every metric comes from an identical implementation.
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