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Triage the inbox. You still send the email.

Sort, summarize, draft. No auto-reply to customers from a consumer model. For people who live in a queue.

What you will learn

  • ✓Summarize a thread into a decision
  • ✓Draft a reply from notes, not from invented tone-of-the-brand
  • ✓Keep send in your client

Inbox automation that sends without you is how you get a polite wrong answer at scale.

Aside. The robot does not get your badge. Your manager still reads the email with your name on it.

Three safe moves

  1. Summarize a long thread: decision, owners, dates mentioned
  2. Draft from your bullets
  3. Label (if your client allows): needs me / waiting / FYI

Packet

Summarize this thread for me.

List: decision needed, who owes what, dates that appear in the text.

Then draft a reply I can edit.

Do not add meetings, discounts, or apologies I did not authorize.

THREAD:

[paste — redact names if the channel is consumer]

You are done when

One thread left your inbox with a reply you read.

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