Build an AI Agent to Replace 6 - 24 Hours Per Week of Manual Email Work (Safely) Ep. 95

Episode notes

Hosts: Justin Shelley - Mario Zaki - Bryan Lachapelle - Joshua Holloway - A real AI agent watched a bid inbox, parsed attachments, filed everything, and cut 6 to 24 hours a week of manual work. Here is how they kept it from going off the rails. In this episode, Justin Shelley, Bryan Lachapelle, Mario Zaki, and Joshua Holloway break down what “vibe coding” looks like when it is tied to an actual business bottleneck, not a demo. Josh shares a real client build: an agent that monitors mailboxes, reads emails and attachments, moves files into a consistent folder structure, and extracts key data into Excel as a transitional step toward a dashboard. They also get candid about the risks. Models change, context breaks, and agents can misinterpret plain language. The group talks about guardrails, narrow task design, approvals, and why you should hard-code what you can so AI only handles the parts that truly need AI.

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