How a retired Gesellschafter reclaimed his inbox — and his mornings.

Lutz Splettstößer is a retired Gesellschafter who still holds stakes in several businesses and chairs two local associations. At 67, he remembers when email was a professional communication tool — not a garbage dump.

Every morning, he opens his inbox to 40–60 emails: newsletter subscriptions he never signed up for, promotional offers from companies he bought from once five years ago, phishing attempts disguised as bank notices, and the occasional actual message from a business partner buried somewhere in the noise.

He’s tried spam filters, rules, unsubscribe links that lead to more spam. Nothing sticks. For business owners and Gesellschafter in their 60s, this isn’t a minor annoyance — it’s a daily assault on their time and attention that makes them distrust their own inbox.

Lutz’s assistant acts as his personal email gatekeeper. It learned his communication patterns in the first week: who he actually corresponds with, which topics matter — Gesellschafter reports, tax documents, family — and what’s noise.

Now it intercepts every incoming email before it hits his inbox. Legitimate messages pass through instantly. Spam gets silently archived with a weekly digest he can review if he wants. Borderline cases — a new contact, an unfamiliar but potentially legitimate sender — get flagged with a one-line summary so he can decide in seconds, not minutes.

The assistant also handles unsubscription properly. When it identifies a persistent newsletter or marketing sender, it processes the unsubscribe and monitors for re-enrollment. If the sender ignores the unsubscribe, it escalates to a blocking rule.