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Productivity 2026

Autonomous Email Intelligence Pipeline

Private email triage, summarization, and task extraction running on home infrastructure.

Role System Architect
Client Personal Project
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Services

Hermes n8n DeepSeek Email Automation

Key Results

45 min/day

Triage Time Saved

100% Local

Privacy Level

The Challenge

Filtering critical actionable messages from hundreds of daily emails without granting third-party AI platforms full read access to private inboxes.

Strategy & Vision

IMAP webhook ingestion via Hermes on VPS paired with local batch evaluation on Mac.

Design Approach

Strict categorization matrix feeding synthesized daily digests.

Engineering & Implementation

Hermes background listener streaming sanitized subject/body tokens to the local inference server.

The Outcome

Zero inbox anxiety with zero email text ever retained on remote servers.

Pipeline Flow

Hermes runs on the cloud VPS as an always-on IMAP listener. When new mail arrives, it relays sanitized subject and body tokens through n8n, which forwards them to the local Mac inference server over the encrypted bridge. DeepSeek evaluates each message against a strict categorization matrix, extracts tasks, and synthesizes a daily digest — all without retaining raw email text on any remote machine.

The result: zero inbox anxiety with absolute privacy.

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All the benefits of executive email filtering with absolute privacy.
Jeremy Lloyd Creator