Inbox Autopilot

Email is the highest-volume, lowest-joy work most people have — which makes it the best automation target. Three layers, in trust order. Triage (read-only): "table of everyone who's reached out about sponsorships: who, company, ask, date" — your inbox becomes a queue with structure. This layer has no failure mode worse than a wrong table cell, so it's where autopilot starts.

Drafting (review gate): the agent writes replies using your reference emails for tone; you read and say send. Riley's practice is scheduling follow-ups on "nearly all" of his emails — every promise gets deadline insurance: "if I haven't sent the report by 6pm, remind me; if she hasn't replied by Thursday, draft a nudge." Commitments stop leaking through the cracks of a busy week.

Full automation (earned, narrow): auto-handling for specific, low-stakes categories only — newsletter triage, meeting-time acknowledgments — after weeks of the drafting layer proving the agent gets your voice right. The inbox is where your reputation lives; expand autonomy category by category, never globally.