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The AI rebuilt my 20 years of address history from my email

He needed his address history for a co-op application and had struggled to dig out leases from a decade or more back. The AI searched more than 20 years of his Gmail and built a spreadsheet listing his addresses back to 2006, with links to the emails behind each date and a flag on the dates that were only a guess.

How it works

  1. Connects the AI to his Gmail
  2. Gives it a prompt to search all mail from the start year to today for leases, move notices, security deposits, utility starts and stops, change of address confirmations and order shipping addresses
  3. Spark creates a spreadsheet with one row per address, newest first, with dates, a confidence note and links to the proof emails
  4. Spark flags any gap or overlap longer than one month

Why it’s worth knowing

Twenty years of moves were sitting in his own inbox. The agent pieced leases, deposits and utility emails into one dated list, and marked which dates were proof and which were only a guess.

Where it’s from

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

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