Triage and route customer complaint emails automatically with AI

Scans your inbox for complaints, scores how urgent each one is, and alerts the right team with a ready-to-send reply.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsEmail AutomationMessaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
GmailOpenAISlackGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Complaint emails get buried in a busy inbox, and by the time someone notices an upset customer, the moment to fix things has often passed. Reading every email to judge urgency and figure out who should handle it eats into time your team doesn't have.

Who it fits

A support team, customer success manager, or small business that can't afford to miss a complaint.

How it works

  1. Checks your Gmail inbox every minute for new messages
  2. Scans each one for complaint language and ignores everything else
  3. An AI model rates the urgency and identifies the right department
  4. It drafts a ready-to-send reply and a one-line summary
  5. It posts an alert to the right Slack channel and logs it to a Google Sheet
What you get

Complaints that reach the right person immediately

You get every customer complaint scored for urgency and routed to the right team with a reply ready to send.

What you get

An instant Slack alert with a draft reply for each complaint, plus a searchable log in Google Sheets.

What you need

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

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.

Let's Talk Strategy

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