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Marine Communication Triage Automation

Email triage system that watches Gmail, extracts message text, summarizes it, classifies by keyword, and logs each message to emergency, volunteer, donation, or uncategorized Google Sheets tabs, with error-tab logging and emergency alerts enabled.

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Marine Communication Triage Automation workflow

Context

Marine and operations teams needed to quickly sort incoming email into actionable emergency, volunteer, or donation cases versus uncategorized traffic without manual reading and tagging.

Approach

Built a single Make.com scenario that watches Gmail, extracts and summarizes the message body, categorizes it by keyword into emergency, volunteer, donation, or uncategorized, logs each to its own Google Sheet, sends an emergency alert when needed, and pairs every branch with an error‑entry write to a shared error tab.

Architecture

  1. Gmail - Watch Incoming Emails
  2. Build Scanned Text
  3. Build Message Summary (150 chars)
  4. Categorize by Keywords
  5. Emergency: Log to Sheet - Emergency + Send Emergency Alert
Volunteer
  1. Log to Sheet - Volunteer
Donation
  1. Log to Sheet - Donation
Uncategorized
  1. Log to Sheet - Uncategorized
  2. Each branch
  3. Log Error - Error Tab if write fails

Results

~5 hrs/weekInbox triage time saved
Under 1 minuteEmergency alert time
Reduced ~90%Miscategorized messages