We cut manual review time of outgoing user emails 📩 by 95% with
@zapier,
@OpenAI and
@htmlcsstoimage!
We tried pricey 3rd-party email review options and got burned. Multiple phishing and emails escaped these automated filters, damaging RSVPify's email sender reputation for weeks, and leaving us scrambling.
As a freemium product operating in an increasingly stringent email delivery environment, we were forced to begin manually (and painfully) reviewing each and every outgoing email sent by our non-paying and untrusted new users. Thousands of emails a week.
Until we tried something new using a series of "Zaps":
1. Query the database for new emails pending review
2. Run an AI-generated Javascript code to extract and categorize email variables like merge tags, logos, images, buttons, links and CSS
3. Use HTML/CSS To Image to generate an image file visualizing the outbound email, including embedded images
4. Run the image file through
@ChatGPTapp Vision with a carefully scripted prompt to detect SPAM, phishing, hate, adult content and other sensitive non-event related emails
5. Log email approvals and blocks in
@SlackHQ
6. Send our systems a webhook when an email is approved, and automatically move email into delivery queue
A couple months later, we've cut manual email review time by upwards of 95% -- and now we manually review only those emails which AI could not confidently approve!