Ideas from the community
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Monthly Engineering Performance Digest (PRs + DevOps Tickets)
An email agent that, at month-end, gathers each team member’s pull requests and Azure DevOps ticket activity, summarizes impact/quality signals, and drafts a structured performance evaluation. It would produce a per-person report with highlights, metrics, and suggested talking points for 1:1s and monthly reviews.
Use Cases
- At the end of each month, email the agent “Generate March evaluations for Team A” and receive a per-engineer summary of PRs, reviews, deployments, and completed/active Azure DevOps work items.
- Before a 1:1, request “Send me John’s last 30 days impact summary” to get notable PRs, key tickets, and risks/blocks John encountered.
- Create a “monthly team scorecard” email: throughput, cycle time, PR review responsiveness, bug vs feature work split, and top contributions.
- Draft evaluation notes with evidence links: “Write performance notes for Q1 for Sara” including PR links, ticket links, and a balanced strengths/areas-to-improve outline.
- Spot coaching opportunities by asking “Who had the most stalled tickets or long-lived PRs this month?” and receive a concise, non-judgmental report.
February 23, 2026
Email-Based Personal Trainer & Workout Memory
An email agent that acts like a lightweight personal trainer: you email it workouts and activities whenever you feel like it, and it stores them with dates in a simple, searchable format (e.g., markdown). Later, you can email questions about progress, trends, and what to do next, and it responds using your logged history with basic guidance (e.g., rest suggestions, activity substitutions).
Use Cases
- After a workout, email: “Ran 3 miles in 30 minutes” or “Bench 210x3x3” and get an acknowledgment plus a quick note on progression or next steps.
- After a gap (vacation, busy period), email a new workout and ask: “How does this compare to my last runs?” and get a concise progress summary.
- Report soreness/pain and ask for safe adjustments: “I’m sore—should I rest? Can I still rock climb?” and receive conservative recovery guidance based on recent volume.
- Ask retrospective questions: “What were my best bench sets in the last 6 months?” or “How many miles did I run in January?”
- Request a simple plan via email: “Suggest 2 strength sessions and 2 runs this week based on what I’ve been doing lately.”
February 12, 2026
Email-to-Expert Q&A Broker (AI Routes Questions to Paid Human Specialists)
An email-based AI agent that takes a user’s specialized question, identifies the right vetted human expert from a registry, and emails the expert to obtain an answer. Experts can onboard by emailing their credentials/specialties, and users can optionally pay per question, with the platform handling routing, privacy, and compensation.
Use Cases
- A small business owner emails a payroll/tax question and gets a CPA’s short answer with clear next steps and caveats.
- A founder emails a contract clause for a sanity check and receives a brief response from an attorney (or a referral to book a proper consult).
- A homeowner emails photos and symptoms of an appliance issue; the agent routes to a vetted technician who suggests likely causes and troubleshooting steps.
- A marketer emails an ad account performance question and gets an expert’s diagnosis and a prioritized experiment list.
- A student emails a niche research question and receives a domain expert’s recommended sources and framing guidance.
February 12, 2026
Escalate: Better Customer Service Replies & Escalation Emails
An email agent that takes an unsatisfying customer support response and drafts a stronger, more persuasive follow-up email. It can also suggest the most appropriate escalation path (manager/executive/contact channel) and generate a concise escalation email with the right tone and supporting details.
Use Cases
- A refund request gets denied; forward the thread to the agent to generate a firmer but polite reply citing policy, timeline, and requested resolution.
- An airline/hotel issue is being mishandled; ask the agent to draft an escalation email including facts, receipts, and a clear ask, plus who to escalate to next.
- A B2B vendor is unresponsive on a contract dispute; generate a professionally worded escalation note to a director/VP with a short timeline and consequences.
- A warranty claim is going in circles; create a succinct email that summarizes the case, attaches evidence, and requests a supervisor review.
- A customer support agent provides incorrect info; draft a correction email that quotes the relevant text, links documentation, and requests confirmation.
January 21, 2026
Email Event Weather Checker
An email-based agent that reads a forwarded calendar event (date/time + location) and replies with a simple “good/bad/iffy” weather assessment for that event. It would fetch a forecast for the event window, summarize key factors (rain, wind, temperature), and optionally suggest alternatives (bring a rain plan, move indoors, shift time).
Use Cases
- Forward an invite for an outdoor meeting or site visit and get a quick go/no-go weather summary for that time and place.
- Send details for a weekend picnic, hike, or kids’ sports game and receive a forecast plus risk flags (precipitation chance, wind gusts).
- Forward a wedding or party event and get a recommendation like “likely fine” vs “plan a tent/indoor backup,” with key weather metrics.
- Email an address + time range for a photo shoot and get best forecast windows and suggested reschedule options if storms are likely.
- Operations/field teams forward work orders (location + scheduled time) to receive safety-relevant weather alerts (heat, lightning, high winds).
January 20, 2026