Wake up to a briefing, not a backlog

Every morning the same twenty minutes disappear: skim the inbox, check what moved overnight, remember what you meant to follow up on. It's not hard work. It's just work that has to happen before the real work starts.

Of every chore people hand a computer, the recurring digest is the most common by a wide margin — and unlike most AI demos, it's the one people are still running months later, because it earns its keep every single day.

• Runs while you sleep. Give it a schedule — hourly, every morning at seven, Monday mornings — and it works on the server. No browser open, no phone awake, no tab left running.
• Reads what you point it at. Your mailbox, the sites and feeds you follow, anything on the web worth checking.
• Knows what's actually on today. Connect your calendar by pasting its private iCal link — no Google sign-in, no permissions screen, works with Apple and Outlook too — and the brief leads with your day rather than just your inbox. Read-only: it can see the 3pm, never move it.
• Ranks instead of dumping. You tell it what “important” means for you — clients, money, outages, one particular project — and it surfaces the top few rather than everything.
• Draws you a window. Open its icon and the brief is laid out: what needs you now, the list underneath, when it last looked.
• Pings your phone when something genuinely can't wait, and stays quiet the rest of the time.

A morning brief runs for well under a cent. At one run a day, the $5 of free credit lasts months — and there is no subscription underneath it. Compare that with the going rate of $30–75 a month for a hosted assistant.

Weather isn't wired in yet. Calendar, mailbox, feeds and anything you ask it to watch all are.