Use Case · IT Incident Management

Your employees already email IT when something breaks — now every message becomes a tracked incident.

High-severity incidents get buried in a shared inbox no one owns. InboxIQ classifies urgency from the email itself, assigns priority automatically, and routes to the right resolver — before the employee even knows to check a portal.

No portal login for employees Priority classification from plain email SLA tracking from day one
The Problem

Incidents are invisible until they escalate

High-priority incidents are invisible until they escalate

A production outage email arrives at 9:04 AM. It sits below 23 other unread emails. By the time a human opens it, 40 minutes have passed and the CEO is asking questions. Without urgency classification at arrival, severity is determined by accident.

Employees bypass the ITSM portal anyway

Every ITSM portal is a second inbox. Employees who can't find the URL email it@company.com. Employees who know the IT Manager personally email them directly. Both create untracked incidents that never appear in your SLA reports.

Per-seat pricing punishes growth

ServiceNow charges per fulfiller seat. Jira SM charges per agent. As the IT team grows to handle more incidents, the bill grows — even though the employee population raising incidents hasn't changed. InboxIQ charges per inbox, not per resolver.

How It Works

Every email to it@company.com becomes a tracked, routed incident

1

Employee emails it@company.com

They describe the problem in plain language: "my VPN stopped working", "production database is down", "can't log into Salesforce." No form. No category selection. Just an email to the address they already use.

2

InboxIQ classifies severity and type

The email text is read semantically. A report of a production system down is classified P1 and tagged as a service-disruption incident. A password reset request is classified P3 and tagged as access — without the employee making a single selection.

3

The right resolver is assigned and notified

Based on classification, InboxIQ routes the incident to the correct owner. SLA clock starts. The employee receives a confirmation in the same email thread with a case reference — never a portal URL.

Outcomes

What IT teams report after 30 days

100%

Incidents captured and tracked

Every email to it@company.com becomes a logged incident from day one, including emails sent directly before InboxIQ was deployed.

70%

Reduction in time to assign

Semantic classification eliminates the triage queue — incidents are routed before a human reads the email.

0

New tools employees need to learn

The intake channel is the same email address they used before InboxIQ was deployed.

Built for IT teams, not for ITSM administrators

  • Semantic incident classification

    "My laptop won't turn on and I have a board presentation in 2 hours" is classified as a high-urgency hardware incident — no employee training required.

  • SLA escalation via Automation Studio

    Define SLA windows per incident type. InboxIQ escalates automatically when a P1 incident has no response after your configured threshold.

  • Resolvers work inside Gmail or Outlook

    No second tool to log into. Incidents, assignments, and status updates all live in the inbox your team already uses.

How InboxIQ compares

  • ServiceNow — routes incidents correctly, once the £500K implementation is complete.

  • Freshservice — portal works great for employees who remember to use it.

  • Jira Service Management — adds a second inbox your IT team has to manage.

  • InboxIQ — incidents classified and routed from the inbox employees already use. No portal. No implementation project. Business plan.

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