> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.emanate.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tactics

> A personal AI assistant that runs hands-off plays for you and delivers them by email

**Tactics** are hands-off plays your personal AI assistant runs on a schedule. Where the [Agent Inbox](/home/agent-inbox)
works the mail landing in front of you right now, Tactics catch the things that quietly slip: the RFQ nobody chased,
the customer who's gone quiet, the newsletter pile you never open.

Find them under **Tactics** in the sidebar. Each play is a card you turn on and tune; once it's on, it runs in the
background and delivers its work to you, usually as an email or a ready-to-send draft.

## Your personal assistant

Turning on Tactics gives you a personal AI assistant with its **own email address** (something like
`alex-morgan@hq.emanate.ai`). That address is where your Morning Brief, digests, and follow-up drafts come from, and
it's how the assistant delivers work back to you.

The assistant also **learns your writing style**. When it drafts something and you edit before sending, it notes what
you changed, so its next draft sounds a little more like you.

<Note>
  Tactics draft and deliver, but they don't send outbound mail on their own. Follow-ups and check-ins arrive as drafts
  for you to approve. You're always the one who hits send.
</Note>

## The plays

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Auto-Inbox" icon="inbox" href="#auto-inbox">
    Sorts incoming mail into clear labels and can draft replies
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deal Spotter" icon="crosshair" href="#deal-spotter">
    Flags buying signals hiding in your email
  </Card>

  <Card title="Morning Brief" icon="sun" href="#morning-brief">
    A five-minute rundown to start your day
  </Card>

  <Card title="Email Digest" icon="newspaper" href="#email-digest">
    Bundles newsletters and updates into one summary
  </Card>

  <Card title="Follow-Up" icon="clock" href="#follow-up">
    Nudges the threads that have gone quiet
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stay-in-Touch" icon="heart-handshake" href="#stay-in-touch">
    Keeps warm relationships from going cold
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Auto-Inbox

Sorts your incoming email into smart labels ("To respond," "Follow-up needed," "FYI") so your inbox organizes
itself, and optionally drafts replies to the mail that needs one.

* **Runs** when new mail arrives.
* **You control** the label names, whether it drafts replies, and which mail it should skip.
* **Delivers** tidy labeled folders in Gmail/Outlook, plus any drafts staged in your mailbox for review.

### Deal Spotter

Reads inbound email for buying signals and logs them as spotted deals (with the product, quantity, an estimated
value, and how urgent it looks) so a real opportunity never dies in an unread thread.

* **Runs** when new mail arrives.
* **You control** what counts as a deal for your business.
* **Delivers** a **Spotted Deals** feed on the Tactics page, each entry linked back to the email it came from.

### Morning Brief

Emails you a five-minute rundown to start the day: your urgent threads, anything on topics you're watching, deals
Deal Spotter found, and recent account movement.

* **Runs** every morning, at a time and timezone you set.
* **You control** the send time and which sections to include, and you can add **topics to ignore** so noise stays out.
* **Delivers** a single email from your assistant. You can also trigger one on demand with **Send now**.

### Email Digest

Rolls up the low-priority mail (newsletters, order-status updates, notifications) from the last day into one tidy
digest, so it's out of your main inbox but still there when you want it.

* **Runs** every evening, at a time you set.
* **You control** which categories to bundle (e.g. inventory updates, newsletters) and topics to ignore.
* **Delivers** a single digest email from your assistant.

### Follow-Up

Watches the threads *you've already sent* and drafts a nudge when one goes quiet: an unanswered RFQ, a proposal
that's gone silent, or a check-in after a deal closes.

* **Runs** on a regular sweep of your sent mail.
* **You control** which patterns to watch and how long to wait before nudging (for example, draft a reminder at 3 days, again at 7, again at 14).
* **Delivers** a follow-up drafted in your voice, staged for you to approve and send.

### Stay-in-Touch

Finds the contacts you haven't spoken to in a while and drafts warm check-in emails, so good relationships don't
quietly go cold.

* **Runs** on a cadence you choose: weekly, every two weeks, or monthly.
* **You control** the frequency, the send time, and which contacts or domains to skip.
* **Delivers** a batch of check-in drafts you can send in one click or edit first.

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Agent Inbox" icon="house" href="/home/agent-inbox">
    The ranked feed that Tactics complements
  </Card>

  <Card title="Channels" icon="bot" href="/channels/overview">
    How the AI email agent drafts and learns your style
  </Card>
</CardGroup>