Sort shared inbox emails to the right Slack channel with AI

AI reads each shared-inbox email and posts a summary to the matching sales, support, or billing Slack channel.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; runs once per each new email in inbox.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Email AutomationMessaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
GmailOpenAISlackGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Your team shares one inbox for sales, support, and billing, and someone has to read every email just to figure out where it belongs. That manual triage takes time every morning and things get missed when the inbox gets busy.

Who it fits

A small team that shares one inbox for sales, support, and billing inquiries.

How it works

  1. The system checks the shared Gmail inbox for new emails every minute
  2. AI reads each email and classifies it as sales, support, billing, or spam
  3. It writes a short summary and assigns a priority level
  4. The right Slack channel gets notified with the summary and priority
  5. Every email is logged to a Google Sheet with its category and priority
What you get

The right team alerted for every email

Every email in your shared inbox gets sorted and summarized into the right sales, support, or billing Slack channel.

What you get

A Slack notification in the correct channel for every real email, plus a spreadsheet log of everything that came in.

What you need

A Gmail account, an OpenAI API key, a Slack workspace, and Google Sheets.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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