Trigger AI Agents with Email: The Ultimate Workflow

Email: The Input Interface for AI

Emails are unstructured text. AI Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding unstructured text. It's a match made in heaven.

By connecting Email to AI Agent, you can build incredible workflows:

• Auto-Draft Responses: An agent reads the email, checks your calendar/docs, and drafts a perfect reply.
• Data Extraction: An agent extracts dates, amounts, and entities from complex email threads.
• Sentiment Analysis: Analyze incoming customer emails and flag angry ones for human review.

Architecture

1. Ingest: MailHook receives the email and converts it to JSON.
2. Process: Send the JSON payload to your AI agent (hosted on Vercel, Railway, or locally).
3. Think: The agent (using OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude, etc.) processes the text field of the email.
4. Act: The agent triggers another API (send Slack message, update DB) or sends an email back.

Example: Meeting Scheduler Agent

Imagine an email arrives: "Can we meet next Tuesday at 2pm?"

1. MailHook sends webhooks to your Agent.
2. Agent reads text.
3. Agent checks Google Calendar API.
4. Agent sees 2pm is free.
5. Agent replies (via API): "Yes, booked for Tuesday."

This isn't sci-fi. It's just a webhook away.