The Hosepipe-to-Digest AI: Your Outbox Middleware

What if an AI sat between your outbox and your recipient's inbox? This episode explores a novel open-source tool concept: AI middleware that intercepts your firehose of emails, holds them in a buffer, and delivers one structured executive summary with BLUF subject lines on a schedule. We break down the five-stage pipeline—intercept, classify urgency, buffer, summarize, deliver—and discuss the clever design decisions like two-tier urgency override and contradiction detection that make this more than just another email tool.