Use Case

AI Executive Inbox Assistant with Email & WhatsApp

Automated executive inbox management uses AI to classify emails, match jobs, filter newsletters, schedule interviews, and send real-time WhatsApp alerts.

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Case Study
Email Assistant
Industry
AI
Platform
N8N
Type
AI Agent

Business Outcomes

Automated end-to-end triage of mixed-priority inbox content

Eliminated manual reading of full job postings for every lead

Accelerated response time on interview scheduling and strong job matches

Reduced newsletter noise reaching the user's attention

Enabled structured, searchable records of job matches and digests

Client Intro

Problem Statement

๐— ๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ-๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜…: Job opportunities, interview confirmations, newsletters, and general messages all arrived in the same feed with no built-in way to tell urgent items from noise.

๐—œ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ: Deciding whether a job posting was actually a good match required reading full postings every time, a judgment call that is slow and inconsistent when done manually.

๐——๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ-๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€: Interview scheduling emails and strong job matches often need same-day attention, but manual inbox checking introduces unpredictable delays.

๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ: Subscriptions and recurring senders clutter the inbox, and most contain nothing worth acting on, but skimming all of them still costs time daily.

๐—ก๐—ผ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ-๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: Job leads, matches, and newsletter content had no consistent home for tracking, meaning good opportunities could get lost after the first read.

๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜€: Email, messaging, and job page content lived in separate systems with no automatic bridge between them.

Solution Design

The agent was built around a single Gmail trigger, with AI judgment layered in at every point where a real decision needed to be made rather than a fixed rule.

๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ: A Gmail node fires on every new incoming email, starting the workflow in real time as messages arrive.

๐——๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป (๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฐ): An Extract Email Data step parses the raw email into structured fields the rest of the workflow can use.

๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: A "DM: Category Allocator" AI node, equipped with its own tool access, reads the email content and classifies it into a category such as job posting, interview scheduling, generic message, or newsletter. This is a genuine AI judgment call, not a keyword match.

๐—™๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฒ-๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: A JSON formatting step feeds a Route By Category router running in strict rules mode, which sends the email down one of four paths purely based on the AI's classification output.

๐—๐—ผ๐—ฏ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต (๐—”๐—œ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด): For job-related emails, the agent fetches the full job page, extracts the job description, and combines it with candidate context before a "DM: Job Matching" AI node, also with tool access, scores how well the role matches the user's profile.

๐—™๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: An Extract Score step pulls the numeric score, and a fixed rule checks whether it clears a match threshold, splitting into a high-match and low-match path.

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต (๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป): A "DM: Interview Scheduled" AI node reads interview-related emails and generates a real-time WhatsApp notification summarizing key details.

๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ (๐—”๐—œ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด): A "DM: Generic" AI node handles miscellaneous messages, while a separate skip-list check and a "DM: Important News" AI node filter newsletters, deciding which ones are worth logging as a digest versus silently skipped.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด (๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฐ): Every branch ends in either a Supabase insert for structured record-keeping or a WhatsApp notification for anything requiring immediate human attention.

Technology Stack

Orchestration: n8n workflow automation

Trigger and inbox: Gmail for real-time email monitoring

AI/LLM: Multiple AI decision nodes for classification, job matching, and newsletter filtering

Messaging: WhatsApp Business API for real-time alerts and notifications

Data: Supabase for structured logging of job matches, digests, and low-match records

Web data extraction: HTTP request and HTML content extraction for full job posting pages

Routing logic: Rules-based router driven by AI classification output

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