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CleverClerk vs Ideagen Mail Manager
Mail Manager files email fast into your own storage. CleverClerk maps every project email with its full context and makes it answerable.
The key difference
Where Mail Manager is strong
Mature, fast filing into your own storage.
A long-established Outlook add-in, widely used in AEC. It files email to your existing storage, learns how each person files, and is known for fast search.
Where CleverClerk differs
Mail Manager organises email. CleverClerk explains it.
CleverClerk turns it into project knowledge, with chat, briefings, summaries and explainable multi-signal mapping.
Choose Mail Manager if you want a mature tool that keeps email copies in your own storage. Choose CleverClerk if you want to ask your project what happened and why.
Feature by feature
Based on public vendor material, October 2026. — means not found.
| Capability | CleverClerkGet started free | Mail Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic project mapping / filing | Yes | Partial |
| Explains decisions and asks when unsure | Yes | Not found |
| AI chat over project correspondence | Yes | Not found |
| AI project briefing (digest) | Yes | Not found |
| AI thread summaries | Yes | Not found |
| AI tagging by your own descriptions | Yes | Not found |
| Private emails within a shared project | Yes | Not found |
| Connect external AI assistants (MCP) | Yes | Not found |
| Formal RFI and submittal registers | No | Not found |
| Free plan | Yes | Partial |
| Works inside Outlook | Yes | Yes |
| Thread replies follow automatically | Yes | Not found |
| Attachments captured automatically | Yes | Yes |
| Search inside attachment content | Yes | Yes |
| Relationship / people view | Yes | Yes |
| Thread sentiment | Yes | Not found |
| Bulk import of past email | Yes | Yes |
| AI meeting notes | Roadmap | No |
| Mobile access | Yes | Yes |
| Explicit golden thread positioning | Yes | Yes |
| Full project export for handover | Roadmap | Partial |
| Published pricing | Yes | Not found |
UK golden thread
Understand the decision trail, not just store it
Ask why a decision was made and get an answer from the mapped emails and files. Brief whoever inherits the project in minutes.
We support the golden thread. Compliance stays with dutyholders.
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