Context
Operations saw more than forty thousand adjuster-related messages per month across regional teams. High-value facts lived in forwarded threads, PDFs, and photos. Manual intake teams were fast but inconsistent, and straight-through automation was blocked by variant layouts and ambiguous policy references.
Constraints
- Auditors require lineage from a structured field to a source message and attachment page.
- PII cannot be copied into unsecured sandboxes.
- Throughput spikes after weather events. Latency targets tighten when queues grow.
Approach
We built a staged pipeline: normalize email and attachments, classify intent, extract entities with layout-aware models, validate with deterministic rules, then route low-confidence bundles to a review queue sized to SLAs. Humans adjudicate exceptions; the system learns which exception classes are worth new rules versus better prompts.
Stack (illustrative)
Customer-controlled object storage for payloads, queue workers for ingestion, vision-language models for PDFs and images, and a warehouse write path with immutable raw artifacts. Model calls are logged with hashes of inputs for reproducibility.