Routing modes: Cautious, Balanced, Automatic

Last updated 3 July 2026

Routing modes answer one question: how confident must InboxAgent be before it acts without you? Anything below the bar goes to Manual review for a person instead. Set it under Advanced → Routing thresholds (admins only).

The three modes

  • Cautious — InboxAgent only acts when it’s at least 90% confident. More email comes to you for review; automatic mistakes become rare. Right for the first weeks, or when trust is still building.
  • Balanced (recommended, and the default for new workspaces) — acts at 75%+ confidence. Clear-cut email is handled automatically; anything uncertain comes to review.
  • Automatic — acts at 50%+ confidence (the minimum). The least email comes to review; you accept more risk of a misfiled edge case. Right once corrections have become rare.

Click a card and it applies immediately — no separate save.

What happens below the bar

An email under your threshold is always sent to review — even mail that looks like junk. In Cautious mode especially, expect some newsletters and notifications in your review queue: that’s the mode working as designed. If the queue is mostly noise, either loosen the mode or turn on the “Ignore newsletters & marketing” rule, which handles the pattern deterministically.

What the bar does NOT apply to

  • Your rules. A matching rule decides outright, above or below any threshold.
  • The noise filters. Bulk mail, auto-replies, and system senders are skipped before the AI runs, whatever the mode.
  • Human actions. Re-classify and review resolutions are your call, always.

”Custom”

If the fine-tune sliders don’t match a preset exactly, the screen shows Custom instead of a selected card — see Fine-tune and the fast-path. Clicking any mode card snaps you back to that preset.

Choosing in practice

Start on Balanced. After a week, look at your review queue: mostly items InboxAgent actually got right? Consider Automatic. Seeing automatic mistakes reach your CRM or helpdesk? Step up to Cautious and correct them so InboxAgent learns before you loosen again.

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