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Intake Rules

Intake rules determine which emails create submissions in your desk. Configure rules to automatically process incoming submissions from your inbox.

How Intake Works

When Kantilever receives an email:
  1. Match - Check if the email matches any intake rule conditions
  2. Classify - AI determines if it’s a new submission, reply, or irrelevant
  3. Route - Create a submission or link to an existing one
  4. Extract - Process documents and extract data fields

Creating an Intake Rule

  1. Navigate to your desk’s Intake Rules tab
  2. Click + New Rule
  3. Configure the rule settings
  4. Enable the rule

Rule Settings

Conditions

Define conditions that emails must match:

Email To

Filter by recipient address. Useful when you have dedicated submission inboxes:

Email From

Filter by sender domain or address:

Subject Contains

Match keywords in the subject line:

Has Attachments

Require that emails have attachments (common for submissions with ACORD forms or SOVs).

Assignment Modes

Control how new submissions are assigned:

AI Triage

For matched emails, AI classifies the content:

New Submission

The email initiates a new submission request. Kantilever creates a submission and begins extraction.

Existing Submission

The email is a reply or follow-up to an existing submission. Kantilever links it to the appropriate submission.

Irrelevant

Spam, marketing, or unrelated content. No submission is created.

Ambiguous

The AI isn’t confident. A triage review action item is created for manual classification.

Custom Triage Prompt

Add a custom prompt to guide AI classification:
“Emails from noreply@ addresses should be marked irrelevant. Renewal notices should create new submissions.”

Multiple Rules

When multiple rules exist:
  • Rules are evaluated in priority order
  • First matching rule processes the email
  • Use higher priority for more specific rules

Example Setup

Monitoring

View rule performance in the intake rules list:
  • Number of emails matched
  • Submissions created
  • Triage reviews pending