Your Inbox Knows More Than You Think. Read Between the Lines.
Thousands of emails flow through your business every week. Each one contains signals: a slow response that lost a deal, a follow-up that never happened, a sentiment shift that predicted churn. Right now, those signals sit unread.
The Email Blind Spot
Your inbox is not a communication tool. It is an unstructured database of customer intent, satisfaction, and opportunity. And right now, nobody is reading it.
Every "just following up" from a prospect is a deal at risk. Every "can we discuss our options" is an expansion signal. Every email that sits unanswered for 72 hours is a customer forming an opinion about your business.
Email analysis does not read individual messages. It reads patterns across all of them: which enquiries get fast replies and which get forgotten, which accounts are heating up and which are going cold, and where your team's response behaviour differs from the experience you think you are delivering.
Emails are powerful
Emails + another stream is transformational
An unanswered email is a concern. An unanswered email from a client whose CRM record shows a contract renewal in 30 days? That is an emergency. Adding a second data stream turns observations into priorities.
Emails
Response gaps, follow-up failures, sentiment shifts
CRM
Deal values, renewal dates, account history
Pipeline Intelligence
Every deal at risk quantified, every expansion signal prioritised
Emails + Calls
A client emails asking for a quote. No reply in 4 days. They call to chase, told "we'll get back to you." Call analysis shows the staff member promised a callback. Email analysis shows none was sent. CRM shows no activity logged.
Single stream: "Slow reply." All three: "Systematic follow-up failure on a qualified lead."Emails + Tickets
A customer's email tone shifts from positive to curt over three months. Support ticket volume from the same account doubles. Neither team notices the pattern because they work in different systems.
Single stream: "Increased tickets." Both streams: "Accelerating churn trajectory with 90 days of warning."Emails + Meetings
A senior partner spends 8 hours per week in client meetings where action items are agreed. Email analysis shows 40% of those action items are never followed up. Meeting time is wasted when nothing happens afterwards.
Single stream: "Slow follow-ups." Both streams: "40% of meeting outcomes never executed. Quantified capacity waste."What Your Email Data Reveals
Patterns that emerge when every email in every inbox is analysed, not just the ones someone remembers to flag.
Revenue Blind Spots
Enquiries dying in shared inboxes. 23% of inbound business enquiries receive no reply within 5 working days. Each unanswered email is a potential deal that went to a competitor who responded first.
Cross-sell signals buried in correspondence. Clients mention expansion plans, new locations, budget approvals, or competitor dissatisfaction in routine emails. Without analysis, these buying signals are invisible to sales.
Proposal follow-up gaps. Quotes and proposals are sent, then silence. Analysis shows the average business follows up on only 60% of sent proposals. The other 40% are left to die without a single chase.
Capacity Blind Spots
Email ping-pong wasting hours. Internal forwarding chains averaging 3+ hops before reaching the right person. Every hop adds delay and consumes someone's time reading, deciding, and forwarding.
Response time variance across team members. Top performers reply in under 4 hours. Others take 3+ days for identical enquiry types. The gap is invisible without analysis, but customers feel it.
Duplicate work across shared mailboxes. Multiple team members drafting responses to the same enquiry, or the same question being answered differently by different people. Analysis surfaces these overlaps.
Experience Blind Spots
Sentiment drift invisible to NPS surveys. Email language shifts from warm to terse over weeks. Tone analysis across hundreds of threads reveals which accounts are cooling before they formally complain.
Promise vs delivery gaps. Commitments made in email ("I'll send that by Friday", "We'll have this resolved by end of day") tracked against actual follow-through. Analysis reveals which promises your team keeps and which it breaks.
Inconsistent communication standards. Some clients receive detailed, professional responses. Others get one-line replies. The quality variation across your team shapes how each customer perceives your entire business.
Where Time Disappears in Your Inbox
Response time patterns from analysed email data streams across UK businesses.
Average Response Time by Enquiry Type
What This Reveals
New business enquiries wait longest. The leads most likely to go elsewhere are the ones sitting unanswered. Complaints get fast replies because they are noisy. Revenue opportunities are quiet and easily forgotten.
Internal emails get the fastest response. Your team communicates with each other faster than with the people who pay the bills. This priority inversion is invisible without data.
Response time correlates with revenue impact. Businesses that respond to new enquiries within 1 hour are 7x more likely to convert than those responding after 24 hours. Your email data shows exactly where you fall.
From Inbox Chaos to Clarity
Three steps. No workflow changes. No integration risk.
Connect
We connect to your email system with read-only access. Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or any IMAP-compatible inbox. No changes to how your team sends or receives email.
Read-only accessAnalyse
Our digital analysts scan every email thread for response patterns, sentiment signals, follow-up gaps, and opportunity indicators. Not a sample. Every conversation.
100% coverageSee
Weekly reports showing which accounts need attention, where response times are costing you revenue, and which team behaviours are creating or destroying value.
Weekly insightsWhat You Might Be Thinking
Your Inbox Has Answers. We Find Them.
Connect your email data stream. Get your first insights within 14 days. Then see what happens when you add a second stream.
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