How It Works

Your Inbox, Monitored

Email Cheat Code monitors your university email and sends you SMS alerts when something important needs your attention. We scan your inbox every 15 minutes so you never miss a critical deadline. We also support "quiet hours" so you won't get a text in the middle of the night.

Connect your university email account through a secure OAuth process. This gives us read-only access to your inbox - we can see your emails, but we can't send, delete, or modify anything.

Your OAuth tokens are encrypted and stored securely using industry-standard encryption (AES-256-GCM). We never store your email passwords.

Our system automatically scans your inbox every 15 minutes. We use a smart filtering system that looks for emails from important senders (like your bursar, financial aid office, or registrar) and emails with urgent keywords.

We skip promotional emails and social notifications automatically, so you only get alerts for things that actually matter.

When we find an email that looks important, we analyze it more carefully. We check the sender, subject line, and content for keywords related to financial deadlines, registration holds, payment reminders, and other critical university communications.

For emails that pass our initial filters, we use AI to generate a clear, concise summary of what the email is about and what action you might need to take.

Privacy note: We redact sensitive information (like Social Security numbers or student IDs) immediately after fetching emails, before any analysis happens. Your email content is processed in memory and never stored permanently - we only keep the alert summaries.

When we determine an email is important enough to alert you about, we send you a text message with a brief summary. The alert tells you who sent the email and what action might be required.

We only send alerts for emails that meet our importance criteria, so you won't be bombarded with notifications. Most users receive 1-3 alerts per week, focused on the things that truly need attention.

All your alerts are saved in your dashboard, where you can review the reasoning behind each alert, see the scoring breakdown, and view links to the original emails in Gmail.

The dashboard shows you all four alert candidates that were generated for each email, so you can see exactly why we flagged it as important. You can also see when each alert was sent, and click a link to view the specific message in Gmail.