Operations & inventoryBeginnerE-commerceHas numbers

Find and summarise feedback buried in months of email

An e-commerce manager needed feedback from colleagues testing new website features, scattered across hundreds of emails from six months earlier. An AI assistant found and summarised it with action points.

Reported results

  • The source reports a two-hour job done in about 15 minutes.

Source: Microsoft customer story (Source checked 2026-11-03)

How to try it

  1. Ask the AI assistant in your email tool to find messages on a topic in a date range.
  2. Ask for themes, repeated issues and action points.
  3. Open the original emails for anything you'll act on.
  4. Save the summary to your project notes.

⚠️ Watch out

Make sure the assistant only searches mail you're allowed to read.

Results are as reported by the source and have not been independently verified. Steps are our own suggestions. We are not affiliated with the vendors named and earn nothing from these links.

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