Company
Date Published
Author
Nylas
Word count
517
Language
English
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None

Summary

Nylas has announced several updates to its platform aimed at enhancing productivity for developers by leveraging AI-powered workflow automations that utilize communications data from users' inboxes, calendars, and contacts. These updates, available through an Early Access program, include features such as Outbox Beta, which allows users to schedule and send large volumes of emails with high deliverability and full CRUD capabilities, and Categorizer, which organizes inboxes by distinguishing human communications from machine-generated ones. Other capabilities include Clean Conversations for decluttering emails, Optical Character Recognition to extract data from unstructured sources, Entity Recognition for detecting specific words in emails, and Signature Extraction to update contact databases automatically. Additionally, Workflow Templates enable the automation of complex business processes with minimal effort. Over 50,000 developers globally use Nylas to create productivity features without the need for extensive integration and security development, and interested parties are encouraged to consult with a Nylas specialist to explore these new capabilities further.