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Escalate an AI email agent's thread to a human

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4 Jul
Intake insurance claims with an email agent

<p>Most "AI for insurance" demos point a model at a claims handler's mailbox and call it triage. That's fine until you realize the agent is squatting in a human's inbox, racing

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29 Aug
Shadow-test a new AI email agent on live threads with Nylas

<p>You have an email agent that works in a test inbox. It classifies a support request, pulls the relevant context, and drafts a plausible reply. The risky next step is turning it

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22 Jun
Keep your AI agent's email replies in the right thread

<p>An AI agent sends an email, a reply lands three hours later, and the agent has to answer two questions before it can do anything useful: which conversation is this, and what

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1 Jul
Handle community abuse reports with an email agent

<p>Community report inboxes are calm right up until they aren't. A scammer posts a phishing link, someone screenshots it, and within ninety seconds you have forty messages — all

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22 Jun
Give your AI agent a real email address on your own domain

<p>Most "AI agent that emails for you" demos point a language model at a human's Gmail inbox over OAuth. That works until the agent needs its own identity: an address people reply

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13 Jul
Audit-log every email your AI agent sends

<p>When an autonomous agent gets an email address of its own, the first question your security team asks isn't "can it send mail?" It's "can you prove, six months from now,

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14 Jun
Agent-to-Agent Communication Over Email

<p>Your procurement agent needs three quotes for a hardware order. The vendor on the other side runs a sales agent that answers pricing questions automatically. Neither team has

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14 Jun
Track Email Opens From Your Agent's Outreach

<p>You built an outreach agent, it sent 80 follow-ups this week, and you have no idea what happened to any of them. Did the prospect open the message? Click the demo link? Is the

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