ShippedProductivity AI
// build study

Inbox Zero

AI email triage that gets you to inbox zero by lunch — smart lanes, drafted replies, and a daily debrief.

Client:Productivity SaaS team (NDA)
Duration8 weeks
ScopeFrontend MVP for a productivity team's internal use

// Five lanes, one-click drafts, inbox zero by lunch

// the numbers

Figures from the engagement, shared under NDA.

We publish them unchanged and can’t break them down any further here. The reference build you can open runs entirely on sample data.

~22 minInbox load
6/dayAuto-handled
01In brief

If you read one part of this page, read these 3 lines.

  • AI lanes — To-do, Awaiting reply, FYI, Newsletter, Promotional
  • One-click drafted replies with tone presets and inline citations
  • Daily debrief with sent/received/drafted trends and auto-handled audit
02Overview

What it does — and which part of it we built.

Classifies every incoming email into AI lanes (To-do, Awaiting reply, FYI, Newsletter, Promotional), drafts replies in your tone, and gives you a one-screen debrief at the end of the day. Pause anytime.

03The screens

Every screen here is from the reference build, not the client’s system.

The captions say what you are looking at. Every name and record on them is sample data.

04Outcomes

What the engagement left the client with.

  • Average inbox-zero time pulled forward to before lunch
  • 6 emails per day handled fully autonomously per user
  • Daily debrief replaces the manual end-of-day inbox sweep
05How it is built

The stack was picked per constraint, not per house habit.

4 technologies across 1 layers — the shape of the stack follows the problem.

Frontend & Mobile
Next.jsTailwindFramer MotionTypeScript
Every feature in the build (5)
  • AI lanes: To-do, Awaiting reply, FYI, Newsletter, Promotional
  • One-click drafted replies with tone presets
  • Inline citations: why each draft says what it says
  • Daily debrief with sent/received/drafted trends
  • Auto-archive with full audit trail
// see for yourself

Don’t take our word for it — it is running in the frame below.

This is the same page the provenance block links to: our reference build for Inbox Zero, with its own look, copy and motion. Scroll inside it, or open it full-screen.

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