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Gmail
New email in Gmail
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Anthropic
Triage the email with Claude
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Anthropic
Draft a reply with Claude
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pan_tool
Review the draft in Gmail
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Gmail
Send reply via Gmail
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Notion
Log it to your daily inbox digest in Notion
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Automate email triage

Claude reads every email and decides what it needs from you — a reply, a task, a meeting, or the archive.

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Triaging your inbox by hand — deciding what needs a reply, what's a task, and what's just noise — eats the start of every day.

Relay.app triages the inbox for you, so sorting it never eats your morning again: Claude reads each new email in Gmail and decides what it needs — a reply gets drafted for your review, a follow-up becomes a task in Todoist with a due date, a scheduling request gets time options from your calendar, and the noise is archived.

Here's how it works, step by step

It runs on every new email that hits your inbox

  • A new message lands in your Gmail inbox and the workflow fires in seconds.
  • Relay.app reads the sender, subject, and full body so Claude has everything it needs to triage.
Don't use Gmail? This also runs from:

AI triages every email by what it needs from you

  • Claude sorts each email by the action it needs — a reply, a follow-up task, a scheduling response, or nothing at all.
  • It also pulls a one-line summary of what the sender wants and any deadline, so a real ask doesn't get buried under newsletters.
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Route each email to a reply, a task, or your calendar

  • Needs a reply: Claude drafts a response, you review it in Gmail, and it sends from your inbox.
  • Needs a follow-up: the action becomes a task in Todoist with a due date, so it doesn't get lost in the thread.
  • Needs scheduling: Relay.app checks your Google Calendar and drafts a reply with open time slots for you to approve.
  • FYI: the message is archived and labelled in Gmail — no action, no clutter. Click any tab above to see what runs.

Everything you triaged lands in a daily inbox digest

  • Every triaged email gets a line in your daily inbox log in Notion — what came in, what was done, and what's still waiting on you.
  • By the end of the day it's a single digest of what needed you, instead of re-scanning the whole inbox.
Keep your log elsewhere? Swap in:

Make it yours in Relay.app

Start from this template — describe what you want in plain English and Relay.app's copilot builds it for you, then swap any app, change the AI model, or tweak any step until it fits your team.

What is Relay.app?

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Describe what you want and Relay.app's AI builds the workflow for you. But if you like to tinker, you'll love using the visual editor. It's fast, opinionated, intuitive, and feels nothing like wiring diagrams.

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