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Inbox Pilot · Applied AI

Your inbox is not the work.The decisions inside it are.

Inbox Pilot is a read-only AI attention layer for Gmail that identifies actions, deadlines, meetings and important decisions while filtering routine inbox noise.

INBOX PILOT / PRODUCT FILMREAD-ONLY SYSTEM
Cinematic product filmPublic-safe product overview

Synthetic or anonymized content only. No real Gmail content will appear here.

01 · The problem

Delivery and attention are different problems.

Email systems are optimized for delivery, not attention. Newsletters, receipts, interview invitations, invoice deadlines and security alerts all compete in essentially the same queue.

02 · The product idea

Inbox Pilot does not summarize every email.

“Does this actually need the user?”
Core product principle

Filter noise → surface what matters → prepare the next step → let the human decide.

03 · First failure / design lesson

AI prepares. Humans commit.

During the first prototype, an email asked: “Could we meet Tuesday at 14:00?” The first agent version drafted: “Tuesday at 14:00 works great for me.”

That was rejected because the AI had made a human decision.

04 · System

A controlled path from inbox signal to human attention.

  1. 01Gmail
  2. 02Normalize & sanitize
  3. 03Gemini structured triage
  4. 04Deterministic safety validation
  5. 05Calendar context
  6. 06Attention Queue
  7. 07Human review

05 · Guardrails

Useful AI needs explicit boundaries.

  • 01Gmail read-only
  • 02Calendar read-only
  • 03Structured model output
  • 04Runtime schema validation
  • 05Prompt-injection protection
  • 06No invented availability, deadlines or commitments
  • 07Write actions disabled server-side
  • 08Human-in-the-loop

06 · Engineering proof

A working prototype, tested against real integrations.

No production SaaS deployment is claimed.

System component

Google AI Studio

Agent behaviour prototyping and pressure testing

System component

Gemini

Structured email triage

System component

Codex

Engineering execution and regression work

System component

Google APIs

Gmail + Calendar read-only integration

  • 26 automated tests PASS
  • Typecheck PASS
  • Lint PASS
  • Production build PASS
  • Live Gmail PASS
  • Live Calendar PASS
  • Live Gemini PASS

07 · Benchmark

Suppression is measured separately from correctness.

Controlled demo20

synthetic emails

6

surfaced

70%

suppressed

Live inbox43

real inbox emails

3

surfaced

93%

suppressed from the primary queue

Current state: human validation in progress. These are triage and suppression results, not an accuracy claim.

08 · Privacy

Private by design.

Real Gmail content is processed for triage but should never appear in public portfolio assets. Public screenshots and video use synthetic, anonymized or safely obscured data.

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