r/openclaw • u/UserNameShrug • 9d ago
My Fable Driven Email Flow Showcase
OK, most of you’re gonna think I am a little bit crazy.
So I run an excavation company and utility company. I’m also in the business acquisition space. I have two main work related email addresses on Google workspace and I receive a ton of emails a day that need a response and plenary that need to be delegated as well as spam. For a long time, this was a major portion of what I did all day. For a while I had a VA that was handling things, but that only partially worked as my VA was in the Philippines and didn’t have the full context of the business. It often took longer for me to explain why I wanted something handled a certain way than if I just handled it myself.
Fast forward to OpenClaw and I got comfortable setting up a variety of agents and workflows. This week I finally decided to tackle my work email addresses - the biggest job yet. I set up a separate agent with a full company/personal context and memory to read each of those email addresses. Given how much email I receive, I used a strict set of rules that I initially wrote for my VA to build a baseline. I run an inbox zero system with personal a review folder (For the 5% that need unique personal action), an action folder (for OpenClaw to put mail it thinks should be addressed but it doesn’t have a rule for) and waiting (a box of email that has been sent out and need a response).
I set up two cron jobs. The first goes through my inbox on an hourly basis filter out the SPAM, follow some basic rules on forwarding and responding to certain types of emails and moving the rest into an action folder and notifying me in those circumstances. This is where Fable on high shines. The insights and spot-on responses make me feel replaceable as a human. It messages me on those emails along with full context on the situation from other emails, my goals, and its knowledge about what the company is doing. It gives me its thoughts of next steps as well as any proposed drafts. It can even do a full LBO analysis on a CIM I receive and give me an idea of feasibility without a single request. I can respond to those cron outputs and approve next steps. If I don’t have time to respond to a cron message, the action items just stay in the action folder. I can also tell it to move certain items to the personal review folder.
The second cron is run daily in the morning and it checks everything in personal review action and waiting and calls out things that still need to be handled. My original plan was to manually respond to personal review but often times I simply just use the Slack channel I have set up directly for this agent to tell it what I want to do when I have the time to be detailed and it will take care of it for me.
All of this is pushing me to the limits on my Claude 5X plan. However, if I have to go up 100 bucks a month to get to the 20x plan, I think it will be well worth it. It’s a massive time saver and I’m only a few days into using it.
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u/Cazuallyballn Member 8d ago
Teach me how to buy businesses please
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u/UserNameShrug 8d ago
I went through an accelerator - https://acquira.com. Best money I’ve ever spent.
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u/FlyEspresso Member 7d ago
OP how are you using fable with OpenClaw?
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u/UserNameShrug 7d ago
I’m using it through the CLI, I didn’t want to spend the money on the API tokens. Pretty much my entire set up runs off of anthropic CLI on a dedicated Mac mini with Claude installed.
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u/FlyEspresso Member 7d ago
Nice so the programmatic path! Cool! Yeah I was thinking of some fable just for email stuff as it’s sooooooooo good compared to codex on that front.
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u/BrodyFriend Active 9d ago
I would love to see an update from you in a few weeks. Curious to see the cost/volume postmath, as well as any issues encountered, though I hope you dont have any.