Case study
An AI inbox agent for a Dubai billionaire
The head of a family office worth $1.6 billion was spending the first and longest part of every day in an inbox. The system now reads each thread on arrival, decides what it is, drafts the reply in his own voice, and puts one brief on top of the pile. He approves. He does not compose.
- Result
- 11 hrs/week returned
- Also
- Inbox handled end to end
- Client
- $1.6B family office, Dubai
- Year
- 2026
The problem
Volume was the obvious problem, but it was not the real one. Assistants could already sort mail. What they could not do was draft a reply that sounded like him, which meant every message of consequence still waited for him personally. The queue was not a triage problem. It was a writing problem.
What we built
- Sorting by what a message is actually asking for, not by the words in it, so a quiet email that needs a decision does not end up under a loud one that does not.
- Replies written from his own sent mail, matched to how he writes to that particular kind of sender.
- A held approval step. Nothing sends itself. Auto-send was the one thing this account could not risk.
- A single daily brief: what needs a decision today, what was handled without him.
- Escalation rules for the senders who always cut the queue.
The result
- 11 hours a week given back to him.
- The inbox stopped being the first and longest task of the day.
- Drafts are approved rather than written, which is a different job and a much shorter one.
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