An agent took a man's email from 90 minutes a day to 8

A man was spending 90 minutes a day on email. An AI agent was set up to read, sort and draft replies to every routine message. He now approves the drafts in 8 minutes, saving 82 minutes a day.

82 minsaved

How it works

The agent reads every routine message
It sorts the messages
It drafts replies
The man approves the drafts in 8 minutes a day

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent reads and drafts everything routine, and the man's whole email job is now 8 minutes of approvals.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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