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AI Email Prioritization That Surfaces What Actually Matters

AI email prioritization is the process of using a language model to score every incoming email by importance and surface only the messages that genuinely need a human response. Sifta provides AI email prioritization for Gmail and Outlook users by analyzing sender history, reply patterns, body content, and urgency signals — then texting you the top-priority items via iMessage so you never have to scan your inbox to find them.

Most inbox tools treat priority as a label you apply manually or a static rule (e.g., "flag emails from this sender"). Real priority is contextual: an email from your biggest customer asking a casual question is lower priority than a short note from a sender you've never replied to before but who's introducing a key partner. Sifta's AI considers signals that rule-based tools miss: how often you reply to a sender, the time-sensitivity of the request, whether you're explicitly addressed or just CC'd, the type of action being requested, and patterns in your past behavior. This is what enables the model to surface the 2-5 emails per day you actually need to see — not the 50 a manual filter might flag.

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Sound Familiar?

Manual flagging and starring breaks down at any real volume — you stop trusting your own "important" label after a week.

Gmail's Priority Inbox and Outlook's Focused Inbox are too generic — they catch CC'd newsletters and miss the one customer email you needed.

Rule-based filters ("if from X, mark important") can't handle the nuance of why an email matters today and not tomorrow.

By the time you've scanned everything to find the important emails, you've already spent the time the prioritization was supposed to save you.

How Sifta Fixes This

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Sifta uses a large language model to read the full body of every incoming email — not just the subject line — and score it on multiple priority dimensions including sender importance, urgency, action required, and your past response patterns.

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Top-priority emails get summarized in 2-3 sentences and pushed to your phone via iMessage, so you see what matters within seconds of it arriving.

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Lower-priority emails are silently archived in your Gmail or Outlook account — searchable and recoverable, but never in your inbox view or pinging your attention.

How Sifta Works

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Connect Gmail or Outlook

Link your inbox via secure OAuth in under 2 minutes. No password is ever shared with Sifta.
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AI scores every incoming email

Sifta's model evaluates sender history, body content, urgency cues, and your reply patterns to assign a priority score in real time.
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Top-priority emails are summarized

High-priority messages get a 2-3 sentence summary covering who, what, and what action is needed.
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Sifta texts you the priorities

Summaries arrive in iMessage. Most users see 2-5 alerts per day — the emails that genuinely need them.
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Everything else is archived silently

Newsletters, promotions, CC noise, and automated notifications are archived in the background. Your inbox stays clean without you opening it.

What You Get

Priority is determined by AI context, not manual labels or rigid rules

Top-priority emails reach you within seconds via iMessage

Most users see 2-5 priority alerts per day — not 50 false positives

Works for both Gmail and Outlook with no configuration required

Frequently Asked Questions

How does AI email prioritization work? +

Sifta's AI email prioritization works by reading every incoming email with a large language model and scoring it on multiple dimensions: sender history, body content urgency, your past reply patterns, whether you're directly addressed, and what action is being requested. The top-scoring emails are summarized and texted to your phone.

Is AI email prioritization better than Gmail Priority Inbox? +

Sifta's AI prioritization is significantly more accurate than Gmail Priority Inbox or Outlook Focused Inbox because it reads the full email body and considers your specific reply patterns, not just generic engagement signals. It also pushes alerts to your phone so you don't have to open your inbox to see what's important.

Can the AI learn what's important to me specifically? +

Yes, Sifta's AI continuously learns from your reply behavior — which senders you respond to, how quickly, and which threads you engage with — and uses that signal to refine prioritization for your specific inbox over time.

What if the AI gets a priority wrong? +

Sifta is tuned to err on the side of surfacing borderline emails rather than hiding them, so false negatives (missing something important) are rare. When false positives happen, you can simply ignore the iMessage and Sifta learns from the lack of engagement.

How is this different from SaneBox? +

Sifta is different from SaneBox in two ways: SaneBox sorts mail into folders inside your inbox that you still have to open and check, while Sifta pushes the priorities to iMessage so you never have to open the inbox at all. Sifta also uses a large language model rather than the simpler statistical models SaneBox relies on.

Let an AI decide what's important — and text you only that.

Sifta is in early access at $49/month. Works with Gmail and Outlook — setup takes 2 minutes.