Solo business in the EU, can I use Claude for customer emails without GDPR headaches?

Hey all, hoping someone here has already solved this. I've recently started an online business, in the EU. So far It’s just me, no employees. I’m trying to automate as much of the admin as possible, and the big one is email. I've read stories about people giving Claude access to your inbox. In my case, claude would watch my inbox and draft replies to customer inquiries that I then review and send. So claude would only make drafts, based on the knowledge base of my product, legal context and procedures. I would review and send. The obvious route is the Gmail MCP connector. Technically I’m sure that works fine. The part I keep getting stuck on is the legal side: my customer's emails contain names, addresses, phone numbers, order details, sometimes more. So Anthropic would be processing personal data of EU residents, which raises questions relating to GDPR. From what I can tell, Team and Enterprise plans have this covered properly. Problem is Team has a two seat minimum and there is exactly one of me, so I’d be paying for a non-existent colleague. I’m on a Max plan right now. I mostly use claude code on MacOS. As far as I can tell, working through the API seems to fall under a data processing agreement, which would mean the issue would be covered. Has anyone here actually done this? How much of a pain was it to build and keep running, and did it hold up when you looked at it properly from a GDPR angle? One thing I’ve seen suggested is stripping or pseudonymising personal data before it reaches the model. I can see that working for something like document analysis, but for managing a mailbox I don’t think it’s realistic. So mainly: can you get a DPA on an individual Pro/Max plan, or is that strictly Team and up? And has anyone gone the API route and lived to tell the tale? Or is using claude as a chief of staff in your business operations something in practice only non GDPR jurisdictions can do? By the way, not looking for GDPR IS STUPID comments, that's not what this is about.

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