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Email Overload for Lawyers: Reclaim Billable Hours From Your Inbox

Email overload for lawyers is the daily problem of client communications, court notices, opposing counsel threads, vendor updates, and CLE marketing all arriving in the same inbox — competing for the same finite attention that should be going toward billable work. Sifta solves this by reading every email in your Gmail or Outlook inbox, identifying the time-sensitive legal matters that genuinely need a fast response, and texting you those alerts directly via iMessage so you stay responsive without sitting in your inbox.

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Sound Familiar?

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You bill by the hour, but a meaningful chunk of every day disappears into inbox triage that never appears on a single client matter.

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Court notices, filing deadlines, and time-sensitive client questions get buried under contract review CCs, vendor proposals, and CLE marketing.

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Clients expect a same-day response, but you're in court, in deposition, or heads-down on a brief — and you don't realize they emailed until hours later.

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Opposing counsel emails and case management notifications need fast triage, but they look identical in subject lines to ordinary internal threads.

How Sifta Fixes This

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Sifta connects to your Gmail or Outlook inbox via secure OAuth and reads every incoming email — distinguishing client communications, court notices, and opposing counsel threads from internal CCs, vendor pitches, and marketing.

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Time-sensitive legal matters are summarized and pushed to your iPhone as iMessage alerts: who, what, what's needed, and how urgent — so you can respond within minutes from anywhere.

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CLE marketing, vendor proposals, internal CC threads where no action is needed, and bar association newsletters are archived silently so they're never in your way.

What You Get

Reclaim 30-60 minutes per day of inbox triage time as billable capacity

Stay responsive to clients even when you're in court or deposition

Time-sensitive court notices and opposing counsel emails reach you immediately

Both Gmail and Outlook supported — works with most law firm email setups

Frequently Asked Questions

Will Sifta miss a time-sensitive court filing notification? +

Sifta is specifically tuned to surface time-sensitive sender categories like court notification systems, opposing counsel domains, and active client communications — these are the highest-priority emails the AI is trained to never archive silently.

Is Sifta secure enough for confidential client communications? +

Sifta uses secure OAuth to connect to Gmail or Outlook — no password is ever shared. Email content is processed in memory for classification and summary generation; full email bodies are not retained long-term. For firms with strict requirements, the security model is comparable to other major SaaS tools you already use.

How does Sifta handle attorney-client privileged emails? +

Sifta processes attorney-client communications the same way Gmail or Outlook itself does — content is read and summarized for your benefit only, never shared or used to train models. Sifta's role is identical to that of an executive assistant who summarizes your inbox.

Can it work alongside our case management software? +

Yes, Sifta works alongside Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, and other case management platforms because it operates at the Gmail or Outlook level — it doesn't replace your case management workflow, it just makes sure the email triage layer doesn't bury time-sensitive matters.

How much does Sifta cost? +

Sifta is $49/month per user. For most lawyers, recovering even 30 minutes per day of inbox triage time pays back the subscription many times over in billable capacity.

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Stop losing billable hours to your inbox.

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

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