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AI email agent
In one sentence
An AI email agent is an AI agent that manages a mailbox: it reads incoming messages, sorts and prioritises them, sets aside suspicious ones, drafts or sends replies using the business's own information and logs every conversation in the CRM.
Also known as: email agent · AI agent for email · AI email assistant · AI email agents
Email is still where quotes, invoices and detailed complaints arrive. It’s also the noisiest channel: automated notifications, newsletters, spam and phishing attempts. An AI email agent separates what matters from the rest and gets the reply started.
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An agent that sorts and answers your email
From €39/mo + VAT
It sorts the inbox by priority and drafts replies with context.
See the email agentWhat is an AI email agent?
It’s an AI agent connected to one or more mailboxes. Unlike the classic rules in your mail client, which depend on exact words, the agent understands the message using a language model. It knows that “could you send me March’s invoice?” and “I need last month’s invoice” are asking for the same thing.
With that understanding it does three jobs: it sorts the mailbox, it replies or drafts the reply, and it logs each conversation where the team can follow it.
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UTIO Email
- Add-on for any voice or WhatsApp plan
- 2 mailboxes and 2,000 emails a month
- Standalone email: from €89/mo
From €39/mo + VAT
See the email agentHow it works
- Read and group. Messages from the same conversation are gathered into threads.
- Classify. Using text classification, it decides whether it’s a sales enquiry, a support issue, an invoice or something automated, and gives it a priority.
- Set aside. Suspicious or irrelevant emails go into quarantine before they waste anyone’s time.
- Draft. It writes a reply in your tone, using your knowledge base or the CRM.
- Log. The email lands on the contact’s record, with an owner and a next step.
Like any language model, it can make mistakes or invent a detail. So autonomy is granted one type of email at a time, not all at once.
Example
An accountancy practice in Belfast receives dozens of client emails a day: invoices as attachments, tax questions, bank notices. The agent groups the threads, flags as urgent the letters from the tax authority that clients forward on, and quarantines emails pretending to be from a bank. For questions about deadlines, it drafts a reply based on the practice’s filing calendar; the accountant checks it and sends it. Complex tax questions go to each client’s own accountant.
AI email agents at UTIO
UTIO’s email agent reads your mail, sorts it into threads, quarantines the suspicious, drafts replies in your tone and files everything in the CRM, with an owner, a status and a next step. You decide how much it does alone: no AI, ask first, draft or automatic.
Most customers add it as a €39/mo module on a voice or WhatsApp plan, with 2 mailboxes and 2,000 emails a month and no setup. Without a base plan, there’s standalone email at €89/mo with 3 mailboxes and 3,000 emails, and Email Enterprise at €249/mo with no limits.
Frequently asked questions
Can AI reply to my emails automatically?
Yes, but it's best done in stages. Usually the agent drafts replies and a person reviews and sends them. Once its answers are reliable for a given type of email, such as opening hours or order status, you let it send those on its own.
How is an AI email agent different from an email filter or rule?
A rule applies a fixed condition: if the subject contains a word, move the email to a folder. An agent understands the content even when it's phrased differently, sets the priority, writes a reply and acts in other tools, such as the CRM.
Is it safe to give an AI agent access to my email?
That depends on the provider. Ask where the data is stored, whether they sign a GDPR-compliant data processing agreement and what permissions they need on the mailbox. And start with little autonomy, so you can check its work before it sends anything.
Related terms
- Text classification
Text classification is the AI task of automatically assigning one or more categories to a piece of text, such as an email or a message: type of request, topic, priority or language. It's the basis for sorting, prioritising and routing work.
- AI CRM
An AI CRM is customer relationship management software in which artificial intelligence logs conversations on its own, updates contact records and deals, suggests the next step and ranks contacts by priority, instead of relying on the team to type everything in.
- AI agent
An AI agent is a system that uses a language model to understand a request, decide which steps to take and carry them out with real tools, such as your calendar or CRM, until the task is done rather than just replying.
- Shared inbox
A shared inbox is a workspace where a whole team handles the conversations from one channel, such as the company WhatsApp or email address, with an owner assigned to each one so nobody replies twice and no message goes unanswered.
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