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Guides
What an AI email assistant is, what access one needs, what it can and cannot do with your mailbox — and how to take that access back.
Security and permissions
Connecting a mailbox is the part worth being careful about. These name the exact scopes Clarity requests, what they permit, what constrains them, and how to revoke access.
Is It Safe to Connect Gmail to a Third-Party App?
What Gmail access a third-party app really gets, which scope to refuse, and what Clarity requests.
AI Email Security: What to Check Before You Connect
The seven questions to ask an AI email vendor, and Clarity's answers to each.
Gmail App Permissions Explained
Every Gmail OAuth scope in plain English, and the exact five Clarity requests.
Can AI Read My Emails?
Which emails an AI assistant reads, what leaves your mailbox, and what is kept.
How to Revoke an App's Access to Gmail
The real steps to remove Gmail and Outlook app access — and what revoking does not delete.
Outlook App Permissions Explained
Microsoft Graph mail permissions in plain English, and the ones Clarity requests.
Understanding the category
What an AI email assistant actually is, how the sub-types differ, and which kind fits which problem — including the ones Clarity does not solve.
What Is an AI Email Assistant?
The five types of AI email assistant, what each actually does, and where Clarity sits.
AI Email Management
The four jobs inside email management — sorting, prioritising, replying, chasing — and what handles each.
What Is an AI Executive Assistant?
Which parts of an executive assistant's job software can take, and which it cannot.
What Is an AI Chief of Staff?
Assistant versus chief of staff — and why surfacing unasked-for work is the whole distinction.
Proactive AI vs Reactive AI
The one test that separates proactive AI from reactive AI, applied to real email tools.
What it costs you
Roughly 9.1 hours a week
Estimate2.8 hrs of that we could cover
The rest stays yours — it is not repeatable.
106 hrs
a year, if the low end of the range holds
137
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