We've worked with enough operators in Whakatāne to know that the brief that arrives in our inbox is rarely the brief that ends up shipped. The first thing we do on any AI email triage project is sit with your team for a day before we propose anything.
Bay of Plenty · Applied AI
AI inbox manager, built for businesses operating in Whakatāne.
What AI email triage actually does
Inbox gets the AI treatment – drafts replies, files quotes, escalates the urgent, and snoozes the noise. Your team starts the day at zero, not 200 unread.
- 01 Drafts replies in your tone, ready to send
- 02 Auto-files attachments to the right job folder
- 03 Detects complaints and pings the right person
- 04 Weekly digest of what was handled while you slept
Built on: Claude Gmail API Microsoft Graph Vercel
Bay of Plenty
The Whakatāne context, plainly.
- Eastern Bay of Plenty runs on horticulture, aquaculture, and Māori-led enterprise – AI here works when it respects relationships first.
- Kiwifruit, aquaculture, marine tourism, and a strong iwi economy. AI tools that work offline and bilingually find their home here.
We work with teams across Whakatāne: Whakatāne · Ōhope · Kawerau · Edgecumbe · Murupara · Ōpōtiki.
Talk to us about this →How we build AI email triage for a Whakatāne team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Whakatāne business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI inbox manager.
Talk to usThe outcome for Whakatāne teams
If we build the right slice first, Whakatāne teams feel the difference inside the first month. Inbox time cut from 2 hours/day to under 30 minutes.
Not your typical AI agency.
Honest about what AI can and cannot do
Ships the one workflow that pays for itself
Hours given back, never the size of the invoice
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
Questions
FAQ
How long does AI email triage take to ship for Whakatāne businesses?
We aim for a working pilot inside 4-6 weeks – narrow scope, real Whakatāne businesses data, measurable outcome. From there it's another 6-8 weeks of hardening before you'd consider it production. Full rollouts (multiple sites, multiple teams) typically land in 3-4 months.
How do you price AI email triage engagements?
Fixed-scope pilots first, then either project pricing or a small monthly retainer for the ongoing work. No long lock-ins, no 18-month black-box deals. Most Whakatāne businesses are surprised how small the first cheque is.
Anyone else in this space using AI email triage?
Plenty. Inbox time cut from 2 hours/day to under 30 minutes. The interesting question is rarely "does it work" – it's "is your team ready to use the output." That's what we'd scope on the call.
Who owns the code and the model setup?
You do, on delivery. We deploy AI email triage into your own cloud account where possible, with the model setup, prompts, evals and integration code all checked into a repo you own. Claude sits in your account too – we don't operate it from ours.
Get in touch
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Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it — no obligation.