Email Management Agent

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      "upvotes": 0
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      "name": "Deskmail Ai",
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      "evidence_quality": "unclear",
      "upvotes": 0
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    {
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        "billing": "not_found",
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      "upvotes": 0
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      }
    },
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    },
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        "value_pct": null,
        "held_reason": null
      },
      "w": {
        "published": false,
        "value_pct": null,
        "held_reason": null
      },
      "m": {
        "published": false,
        "value_pct": null,
        "held_reason": null
      }
    },
    "pricing_version": "cohorts-1",
    "pricing_status": "ok",
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          {
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          },
          {
            "provider": "toyo",
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          },
          {
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            "usd": 105.5
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        ]
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      {
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          "plan_observation_count": 2
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        "reliability": "low",
        "members": [
          {
            "provider": "via_email",
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          },
          {
            "provider": "toyo",
            "usd": 79
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "tier": "team_sme",
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        "provider_count": 2,
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        "data_confidence": 0.15,
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          "plan_observation_count": 2
        },
        "reliability": "low",
        "members": [
          {
            "provider": "mcpemails",
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          },
          {
            "provider": "via_email",
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        ]
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    },
    "pricing_note": "Provider-deduped, FX-normalized monthly medians, separated by buyer tier AND billing unit (flat/per_seat/per_user/per_agent) — incompatible units are never blended. Ranges (p25/p75) only at >=5 providers; data_confidence is provider-count-weighted. Usage-metered, promo, range, one-time and ambiguous-cadence plans are excluded.",
    "pricing_excluded_observations": {
      "ambiguous_cadence": 2
    },
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      "free": 2,
      "subscription": 1
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          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 12,
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          "headline": "Free tier, then from $12/mo",
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        },
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      },
      {
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        "name": "Gmail",
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          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "zoho_mail",
        "name": "Zoho Mail",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "agentic_inbox",
        "name": "Agentic Inbox",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "unknown",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
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        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "almanac",
        "name": "Almanac",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public pricing was found for Almanac in the supplied context."
        },
        "observed": false
      }
    ],
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      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "email-management-agent"
        },
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      },
      {
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          "niche": "email-management-agent",
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        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
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      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
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        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
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}