Use Cases

What agents actually do
with a real inbox.

Seven scenarios. Each one turns email into business work: faster replies, fewer missed follow-ups, cleaner records, and control where a human still matters.

01

The Follow-Up Agent

An inbound email needs a response — and if you don't hear back, a second, and a third. The agent handles the whole chain, writing each message for the specific conversation.

So leads and client requests do not go cold while everyone is busy doing the work.

How it works

01

Agent reads the inbound email and decides a follow-up sequence is warranted for this contact.

02

It creates an ad-hoc enrollment with custom prompts — referencing the specific ask, the timeline mentioned, the tone of the conversation. Not a template. Written for this email.

03

Steps fire on schedule: day 0, day 3, day 7. Each message is generated at send time using the original context snapshot.

04

Contact replies — sequence exits automatically. No stale follow-up goes out after a conversation has already started.

Conversations keep moving without manual chasing. You see the reply, booked call, or closed loop — not the sequence of reminders it took to get there.

02

Triage Without a Human

Every email classified, routed, and acknowledged — before you open your laptop. The agent applies the same judgment every time.

So repeated questions, low-priority mail, and obvious routing work stop stealing the first hour of the day.

How it works

01

Email arrives. Phishing detection runs immediately — suspicious signals are flagged before anything else happens.

02

Workflow rules evaluate the message: who sent it, what it's about, how it matches configured conditions. Labels applied, thread routed to the right inbox.

03

An AI condition evaluates whether the email needs an immediate reply. If yes, a draft is prepared and held for review — not sent.

04

Priority score computed. High-priority messages surface in the agenda. Everything else is handled quietly.

The important messages surface first. Everything routine is acknowledged, labeled, routed, or held for review before it becomes a human bottleneck.

03

Relationship-Aware Outreach

Before the agent reaches out, it checks what it already knows. The message references real history — not merge fields.

So outreach does not sound like another automated campaign from a system that forgot the customer.

How it works

01

Agent queries the relationship graph: last contact date, interaction frequency, topics discussed, connection strength.

02

It reads the contact's enrichment data — AI-generated digest of what this person cares about, based on your actual history with them.

03

Message composed with that context embedded — the prompt instructs the LLM to reference specific shared history. Not "Hi {{first_name}}, hope you're well."

04

If the contact doesn't respond, a sequence picks up — each step still aware of what was said before.

Every reply, note, and prior exchange becomes working context. Outreach sounds informed because the inbox remembers the relationship.

04

Human-in-the-Loop AI

The agent does the work. You decide what goes out. Built-in approval mechanics — not bolted on after the fact.

So automation can move quickly without putting pricing, promises, tone, or reputation on autopilot.

How it works

01

Agent token is issued with requires_approval on email:send. Any send the agent attempts is automatically held.

02

Agent reads inbound email, runs an AI workflow, and generates a reply. The reply is queued as a held action — not sent.

03

You receive a task in your agenda: "Action needed — reply ready for review." Open the approval queue, read the draft, approve or reject.

04

Approved — message sends immediately. Rejected — discarded, agent moves on. Everything logged either way.

The agent drafts and prepares the work. A human approves the moments that carry risk. Speed goes up without giving away control.

05

Team Inbox, One Contact Graph

Multiple agents, one tenant. Contacts, context, and conversation history shared across the whole team.

So customers, vendors, and leads do not have to re-explain themselves every time the owner, agent, or assignee changes.

How it works

01

Inbound email to a shared address fans out to every team inbox via a distribution list. All agents see it.

02

Thread assigned to the most relevant agent. Internal notes visible to the team, invisible to the sender.

03

Contact shared across inboxes — overlap detection shows which team members already have a relationship with this person and how strong it is.

04

New team member added — the onboarding flow surfaces their top contacts automatically, seeded from existing team relationships.

The business keeps its memory even as work moves between people and agents. New participants start with context, not a blank thread.

06

The Agent That Remembers the Inbox

When the agent answers, drafts, or escalates, it can retrieve the history around the work: emails, attachments, files, contacts, labels, and audit events.

So answers are grounded in what actually happened, not a prompt pasted into a disconnected chatbot.

How it works

01

A new message arrives with a question, request, attachment, or exception. The agent identifies what context it needs before it responds.

02

It retrieves relevant thread history, contact details, prior files, extracted fields, labels, and recent activity from the inbox record.

03

The draft, answer, or escalation is generated with citations to the operational context the inbox already holds.

04

If confidence is low or the action is sensitive, the agent routes it to a human with the supporting context attached.

The inbox becomes the retrieval layer for delegated work. Agents answer from the record, and humans review with the evidence already assembled.

07

Your Data, Your Region

AI features that respect tenant configuration, consent, and regional controls.

So delegated work has the controls a real business will ask for before it depends on an agent.

How it works

01

When you sign up, your tenant is assigned a region for stored workspace data. AI processing follows the tenant's enabled configuration and consent state.

02

AI features run only when enabled. We don't train general-purpose models on customer content, and retention behavior should be configured before launch for the tenant's selected provider path.

03

Every action your agent takes is written to an immutable audit log — who did what, when, to which resource. Searchable and exportable.

04

LLM consent is managed per-tenant and reversible. Revoking it stops all AI features immediately and removes stored AI-generated content. Data deletion requests are processed end-to-end via the API.

The audit trail, residency controls, and deletion tools your legal team will ask for are already there.

Focused guides

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Problems

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Missed email follow-ups

Why follow-up falls through when open loops live in a person's inbox and memory.

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Manual email intake

How inbound email becomes manual copy-paste work and where the handoff should live.

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Ungoverned AI replies

Why AI email replies need scoped authority, approval paths, and an audit record.

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Shared inbox AI agents

Why shared inboxes blur ownership once software starts acting alongside people.

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Brittle routing scripts

Why forwarding scripts break down when email needs state, authority, approvals, and records.

Workflows

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Email approval workflow

How delegated replies and risky email actions wait for a human yes before execution.

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Email to task automation

Why tasks created from email should keep the thread, files, sender, and audit trail attached.

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Email attachment intake

How files that arrive by email stay tied to the message, workflow, approval, and record.

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Client email follow-up system

How client follow-up stays moving without depending on memory or a personal inbox.

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Vendor email management

How vendor mail, invoices, documents, missing details, follow-ups, and approvals stay trackable.

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AI email agent governance

How separate inboxes, scopes, approvals, and audit trails make agent email work governable.

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Email workflow audit trail

Why delegated email work needs a record of the message, action, approval, and outcome.

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Shared mailbox automation

When automating a shared mailbox needs clearer ownership, rules, approvals, and records.

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Customer email intake

How customer mail gets classified and routed before every message becomes a queue item.

Agent infrastructure

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AI agent email address

Why an AI agent should receive and send from its own address instead of borrowing yours.

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Existing email stack

How Gent works alongside Gmail, Outlook, forwarding tools, routing services, and help desks.

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AI agent using your inbox

Why agents should not borrow a human mailbox, identity, sent folder, or reputation.

Use cases

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Email follow-up agent

How sequences, missed-reply signals, and contact history keep leads and client threads moving.

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AI email triage

How labels, rules, AI checks, webhooks, and approvals sort inbound mail before it becomes a bottleneck.

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Agency client inboxes

How agencies keep client addresses, domains, context, approvals, and records separated while managing many inboxes.

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Vendor and invoice intake

How invoices, vendor requests, files, missing details, approvals, and follow-ups become inbox-owned work.

Automation and control

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Inbox-to-workflow automation

How inbound email starts tasks, labels, files, webhooks, approvals, and event-driven handoffs.

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Email routing for AI agents

How inbound mail reaches the agent, workflow, or human path that should own the next step.

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Human-in-the-loop email agent

How scoped tokens, approval queues, and audit history keep delegated email work under human authority.

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