Turn a huge email archive into a wiki where every fact cites its email
this+that gave an AI 45,047 public Enron emails and it wrote 214 pages about the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites the email it came from, facts expire on the date the mail shows they stopped being true, a second AI audited the pages, and nobody edited a page.
Source
jreynar on Hacker News · 2026-10-23 · Project link
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-23.
What they did
this+that gave an AI 45,047 public Enron emails and it wrote 214 pages about the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites the email it came from, facts expire on the date the mail shows they stopped being true, a second AI audited the pages, and nobody edited a page.
Result (as claimed)
A slider on each page shows what was known on any date, an approach any company could use on its own mail.
Tools they used
Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.
Set it up
Gather your sources
Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.
Load them into the tool
Open AI pipeline and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.
Ask focused questions
Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.
Verify and save
Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Turn a huge email archive into a wiki where every fact cites its email What the original author did: this+that gave an AI 45,047 public Enron emails and it wrote 214 pages about the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites the email it came from, facts expire on the date the mail shows they stopped being true, a second AI audited the pages, and nobody edited a page. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A slider on each page shows what was known on any date, an approach any company could use on its own mail. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207620 Tools they used: AI pipeline Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Turn a huge email archive into a wiki where every fact cites its email What the original author did: this+that gave an AI 45,047 public Enron emails and it wrote 214 pages about the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites the email it came from, facts expire on the date the mail shows they stopped being true, a second AI audited the pages, and nobody edited a page. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A slider on each page shows what was known on any date, an approach any company could use on its own mail. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207620 Tools they used: AI pipeline Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Turn a huge email archive into a wiki where every fact cites its email What the original author did: this+that gave an AI 45,047 public Enron emails and it wrote 214 pages about the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites the email it came from, facts expire on the date the mail shows they stopped being true, a second AI audited the pages, and nobody edited a page. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A slider on each page shows what was known on any date, an approach any company could use on its own mail. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207620 Tools they used: AI pipeline Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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