How does this differentiate from a solution like AWS SES? (Which I assume AI Agents would be quite adept at using to send email)
I understand the differentiator vs GMail, but API-based scripted email access isn’t new.
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#32How do you think this will help with identity verification in the future?
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#33How does this differentiate from a solution like AWS SES? (Which I assume AI Agents would be quite adept at using to send email) I understand the differentiator vs GMail, but API-based scripted email access isn’t new.
Because we built the same inbox infrastructure as Gmail. Inboxes have threads, threads have messages, messages have attachments. You can search, label, filter, reply, forward. None of this comes out of the box with SES.
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#34Dead internet theory.
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#35> Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals. Didn't Alexa fail miserably with the "have AI buy something for me" theory? There is a significant mental in allowing someone else make purchase decisions on my behalf: - With a human, there is accountability. - With deterministic software, there is reproducibility. With an agent, you get neither. FWIW - I am not anti-LLM. I work with them and bui…
We are using AgentMail for sourcing quotes here at scale with various top shippers. It’s not about letting the agent act in fully deterministic ways, it’s about setting up the right guardrails. The agents can now do most of the job, but when there’s low confidence on their output, we have human in the loop systems to act fast. At least in competitive industries like logistics, if you don’t leverage these types of workflows, you’re getting very behind, which ultimately costs you more money than being off by some dollars or cents when giving a quote back.
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#36> Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals. Didn't Alexa fail miserably with the "have AI buy something for me" theory? There is a significant mental in allowing someone else make purchase decisions on my behalf: - With a human, there is accountability. - With deterministic software, there is reproducibility. With an agent, you get neither. FWIW - I am not anti-LLM. I work with them and bui…
This refers to B2B use cases that are live in production. Finding, contacting, and negotiating with vendors is a tedious process in many industries. In the time a human reaches out to 10 vendors, an agent reaches out to 100 or 1000. So it finds deals that a human would not have.
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#37> Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents.
Long-running agents are themselves not optimal though. There are a ton of these coordination layers for long running agents now but they don't make any sense under other paradigms
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#38Very interesting. I have a lot of enterprise AI use cases that would really benefit from being email native. We’re an O365 GCC shop. Appreciate that your enterprise options include Bring Your Own Cloud, that makes things much easier for us. It would be nice to have integrations with n8n and Glean.
Thats why we built it :) We have an integration with n8n, will build one for Glean
and a request for gumloop. (a YC alum)
https://docs.gumloop.com/
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#39The 2FA via email case is great. I recently had to build a browser automation workflow that required 2FA. I ended up using Zapier to monitor email inbox and then extract the code and send back to our API. It was a bit slow.
Why didn't you just use something like Mailinator? They specialize in this exact thing. Gives you an API to grab links and everything. That's what I use.
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#40Hey I’m also working on this what a coincidence: https://ai-chat.email Second time at least HN is launching YC on one of my products: BrowserBox - hyperbeam Mailpilot/AI-chat.email - agentnail
Nice seems like we are building towards a similar vision. Would love to collaborate!
Sure, bud. Cut me in on your 500K!
My Show from 14 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629191 - hmm, why didn't it get into YC?