What does this automation do?
A new attachment is converted to text, read by an agent that knows what to look for, and filed as a task with an owner.
What can you do with it?
- Know what a document says without opening it
- Surface the dates, amounts and obligations on arrival
- Give every incoming file a reviewer instead of a folder
The Steps
This automation runs in 5 steps:
- When Gmail — New Email Attachment
- Then Media — Turn a file into text
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent ("Document Reader")
- Then Taskade — Add Task
- Then Taskade — Assign Task
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Document Reader" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your standard terms, approval thresholds and red flags, remembers what it flagged on earlier documents from the same sender, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for finance, legal and back-office teams receiving documents by mail. A new attachment is converted to text, read by an agent that knows what to look for, and filed as a task with an owner.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "New Email Attachment" from Gmail.
- Add the action "Turn a file into text" from Media.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Document Reader".
- Add the action "Add Task" from Taskade.
- Add the action "Assign Task" from Taskade.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.