The email infrastructure
for autonomous report generation.
Developers building reporting agents need primitives to access data sources securely, compile reports, and deliver them via email on schedule. Mailgent provides the email API and encrypted vault so your agent can pull data, build reports, and distribute them without human involvement.
API Primitives used
mail.sendDeliver reports
Send compiled reports to stakeholders with summaries, data highlights, and attachments.
vault.getAccess data sources
Retrieve stored API keys and credentials for dashboards and databases your agent needs to query.
vault.totpAuthenticate to services
Generate 2FA codes for services that require multi-factor authentication to access data.
mail.list_messagesReceive report requests
Monitor for ad-hoc report requests from stakeholders via email.
Reports are manual, late, and nobody enjoys building them.
Every Monday morning someone logs into three dashboards, exports CSVs, pastes data into a spreadsheet, formats charts, and emails the result to leadership. This weekly ritual consumes hours of skilled labor, delays decisions, and produces reports that are already stale by the time they land in someone's inbox.
Developers building reporting agents need credential access for data sources and email primitives for delivery. Mailgent provides vault.get for secure credential retrieval, vault.totp for 2FA-protected dashboards, and mail.send for report distribution.
How to build it.
vault.getAccess data sources
Your agent retrieves API keys and credentials from the vault using vault.get. For 2FA-protected services, it generates access codes with vault.totp.
vault.totpCompile the report
The agent queries each data source, aggregates metrics, identifies trends, and compiles the report. It formats findings into a clear summary with key highlights.
mail.sendDeliver via email
The agent sends the completed report to stakeholders using mail.send. Each recipient gets a summary in the email body with detailed data attached.
Example prompt
“Pull this week's revenue data from Stripe, user metrics from Mixpanel, and support ticket counts from Zendesk. Compile a weekly business review and email it to the leadership team by 8am Monday.”
What developers build.
Weekly business review
Build agents that compile KPIs from multiple sources every week and deliver a formatted summary to leadership via email.
Financial reporting
Build agents that pull revenue, expense, and cash flow data from your accounting systems, generate formatted financial summaries, and distribute them to the finance team.
Infrastructure health reports
Build agents that log into monitoring dashboards, compile uptime and performance metrics, and email reports to the engineering team.
Ad-hoc report requests
Build agents that receive report requests via email with mail.list_messages, generate the requested report, and reply with results.
Why not use a BI tool?
BI tools create great dashboards, but dashboards require people to open them. Reports that sit in a dashboard are reports nobody reads. The most effective delivery mechanism is still email — it arrives in the inbox, it gets read.
Mailgent gives you the primitives for the last mile. vault.get and vault.totp handle authentication to data sources. mail.send delivers the report directly to stakeholders. Your agent pulls data from anywhere and delivers insights where people actually look.
Encrypted data credentials
API keys and dashboard passwords stored in AES-256-GCM vault. Your agent accesses data sources without exposing secrets.
Scoped data access
Each reporting agent has credentials only for the data sources it needs. A sales report agent cannot access HR databases.
Delivery audit trail
Every report generated and delivered is logged. Know exactly what data was compiled and who received it.