Inbox Triage

Founders spend hours drowning in email: inbound leads, active deal questions, user bugs, partner inquiries, and cold noise. inbox-triage digests a batch of incoming messages, cuts the noise, surfaces what matters, and gives you instant response drafts.

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When to Invoke

• You open your inbox in the morning and have 15-30 unread messages.
• You paste a raw export, thread snippets, or CRM inquiries into the chat.
• You need a fast overview: "What requires my attention right now vs what can wait?"

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The Triage Tiers

Each message is classified into one of 4 priority tiers:

1. 🔴 P0: Active Deal & Customer Blockers (Act in < 2 Hours):
   • High-value prospect blocked on a question or contract.
   • Paying customer experiencing an outage or critical workflow failure.
2. 🟡 P1: Hot Inbound Leads & Warm Intros (Act Today):
   • Qualified prospect asking for pricing, demo, or access.
   • Intro from an investor, advisor, or trusted founder.
3. 🟢 P2: Non-Critical Questions & Feedback (Batch This Week):
   • Feature requests, general questions, candidate applications.
4. ⚪ P3: Noise & Low-Priority (Archive / No-Op):
   • Cold pitches from vendors, automated newsletters, spam.

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The Deliverable Structure

When invoked on a batch of messages, inbox-triage outputs:

### 📬 Inbox Executive Summary (N Threads Triaged)
- **Urgent Action Items**: X threads
- **Warm Pipeline**: Y threads
- **Routine / Noise**: Z threads

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### 🔴 High-Priority Action Items (P0 / P1)

#### 1. [Alex Rivera @ FinTech Co] — Enterprise SSO blocker
- **Context**: Evaluating Team plan, needs to know if Okta SAML is supported before procurement deadline on Friday.
- **Urgency**: Deal-critical ($24k ARR pipeline).
- **Suggested Action**: Reply immediately confirming SAML support and offer setup assistance.
- **Draft Reply**:
  > Hey Alex,
  >
  > Yes, Okta SAML 2.0 is fully supported on the Team plan. You can configure it directly under Settings → Security → SSO in about 5 minutes.
  >
  > Here's our setup guide: [link]. Let me know if you hit any snags or want my team to jump on a quick call with your IT admin to verify the claims.
  >
  > Best,
  > Fabio

#### 2. [Elena Rostova] — Intro from Marc
- **Context**: Founder of fast-growing e-commerce brand looking to switch from Competitor X.
- **Urgency**: Warm introduction, high buyer intent.
- **Suggested Action**: Acknowledge intro, offer concise pitch + calendar link.
- **Draft Reply**:
  > Hey Elena,
  >
  > Great to connect (thanks Marc!).
  >
  > We built fstack specifically to solve the sync latency problems you're seeing on Competitor X. Our webhooks trigger in <200ms with 99.99% uptime.
  >
  > Would love to show you how it works—feel free to grab any open slot here: [link].
  >
  > Cheers,
  > Fabio

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### 🟡 Routine Queue (P2)
- **Thread 3**: [Feature Request] Add dark mode export (Log to product board, reply with standard appreciation).
- **Thread 4**: [Candidate] Senior Backend Engineer resume (Review portfolio).

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### ⚪ Noise Filtered (P3)
- 4 vendor outreach emails (Outsourced SEO agency, offshore dev shop, lead list sellers) → Ignored.