SignalBrief in Action
The current prototype is intentionally simple: a Chrome extension popup, a local Flask backend, and a narrow brief that keeps the user out of inbox drift.
Catch what matters. Skip the inbox.
SignalBrief surfaces work, money, family, and opportunity signals hiding inside personal email — without making Gmail the place you have to live.
Referrals, client requests, recruiting, consulting, and business opportunities.
Bills, payment risk, insurance, mortgage, premium, penalty, and account notices.
School, camp, appointments, pickup changes, permission forms, and schedules.
Direct asks from people who know you, without burying you in low-value noise.
SignalBrief is built as a small, ruthless decision layer over visible Gmail rows. It is not a second inbox.
The extension reads visible inbox rows and sends them to the local backend.
Messages are tagged into Personal, Business, Family, and Finance lanes.
A priority matrix boosts consequence-bearing senders, domains, and phrases.
The popup returns at most three active signals with reasons and source actions.
The current prototype is intentionally simple: a Chrome extension popup, a local Flask backend, and a narrow brief that keeps the user out of inbox drift.
A configurable signal table helps SignalBrief fit different users without silently learning or changing rules behind their back.
| Lane | What it catches | Priority escalators |
|---|---|---|
| Business | Work, job, client, broker, consulting, referral, and opportunity messages. | Priority senders, domains, phrases like opportunity, interview, referral, contract. |
| Finance | Money risk, bills, insurance, mortgage, subscriptions, fees, and payment notices. | Payment failed, overdue, premium due, final notice, penalty, sender/domain boosts. |
| Family | School, camp, medical, coaches, appointments, forms, pickup, and schedule issues. | Names, organizations, and phrases that indicate direct household logistics. |
| Personal | Direct human asks and personal obligations that are easy to miss. | Trusted senders and phrases like call me, need your help, can you, let me know. |
SignalBrief follows the same pattern as the workshop tools behind BasisBridge and SessionPeak: a narrow local utility, a clear proof path, and no hidden authority jump.
No delete, archive, mark read/unread, label, send, or auto-reply behavior.
Backend tests, popup checks, and manual rehearsal before broader release work.
The settings table lets users choose priority signals. No automatic rule promotion.
V2 is ready for operator walkthrough. The next small fix pack is known: de-dupe duplicate/near-duplicate signals and suppress zero-score/no-reason items.
SignalBrief is a helper, not a full inbox review. For best results, still glance at your first page of email and ask trusted senders to mark truly urgent messages clearly.
Prototype posture: local demo, narrow Gmail helper, no external AI calls, no Gmail writes.
Interested in testing SignalBrief, adapting the anti-inbox pattern, or discussing a narrow workflow tool for messy personal-email obligations? Share the use case and the kind of signals you cannot afford to miss.