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RAG for Your Inbox: Retrieval Over an Email Corpus
Email is the hardest RAG target there is — threads, quotes, and recency all conspire against you. Here's how to design inbox retrieval that's actually accurate.
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How to Evaluate an AI Agent Before You Let It Touch Your Inbox
A practical evaluation framework — task success, tool-call accuracy, hallucination rate, and recoverability — for deciding whether an agent is safe near your email and calendar.
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Zero-Trust for AI Agents: Scoping Permissions in Your Stack
Treat every agent action as untrusted by default. Here's how to build permission boundaries around inbox, files, and calendar instead of handing out blanket access.
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Agentic AI vs AI Agents: Why the Distinction Matters
A single-task AI agent and a goal-directed agentic system are not the same thing. Here's the capability boundary, and what each is actually good for.
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RAG for Inboxes: Grounding Email Replies in Real Context
Email is a messy, threaded corpus. Good retrieval design — thread chunking, dedup, recency weighting — decides whether AI replies are trustworthy.
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The Inbox Is the Real Agent Benchmark
Email is the hardest test for an AI agent: ambiguous intent, irreversible actions, and real trust. Here's why most demos quietly avoid it.
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The Inbox Is the Hardest Agent Problem in Productivity
Email looks routine, but it's the toughest environment for autonomy: ambiguous intent, irreversible sends, and tangled threading state. Here's what reliable inbox automation really takes.
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Inbox Zero Is Obsolete: Triage for an Agent-Run Inbox
When agents read and draft your email, success isn't an empty inbox — it's well-designed triage rules, escalation thresholds, and approval boundaries.
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Why Your Inbox Is the Best RAG Corpus You Already Own
Email threads encode decisions, commitments, and relationships better than any wiki — making your inbox the highest-signal grounding source for an AI assistant.
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How to Evaluate an AI Agent That Touches Your Inbox
Benchmark scores won't tell you if an email agent is safe to trust. Here's a practical eval harness built on task completion and harm metrics.
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Evaluating AI Agents on Multi-Step Office Tasks
Single-turn benchmarks miss what matters. Here's a practical eval harness for agents that move data across email, docs, sheets, and calendar.
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The Hidden Cost of Context Windows in Agent Workflows
A quantitative look at how context window limits quietly degrade agent performance on email threading and document synthesis—and what to do about it.
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