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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.

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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

AI pipeline

Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.

Set it up

  1. Gather your sources

    Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.

  2. Load them into the tool

    Open AI pipeline and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.

  3. Ask focused questions

    Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.

  4. Verify and save

    Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.

Copy the full setup prompt

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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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