The morning brief
Your CEO delivers a single short report every morning. What the team did overnight. What's queued for today. The few things that need you. Read it with coffee; move on.
What you'll learn
- What a morning brief looks like, section by section.
- When it arrives and how to change the time.
- How to act on it in under ten minutes.
- How to tune it over time — say less, say more, email it.
The morning brief is the daily pulse of your AI company. It's the single most useful artifact the CEO produces on a normal day — a compressed picture of overnight progress, today's plan, and the decisions that moved to the top of your list.
It's designed to be read in two minutes and acted on in ten. If your brief is taking longer than that, tune it (we show you how below).
What it looks like
A morning brief is a single card in the Action Feed with four sections. Roughly:
☼ Good morning
Overnight
- Sales sent 12 outreach emails. 3 opens, 1 reply.
- Engineering shipped your landing-page v2 (new pricing section).
- Designer refreshed your social cards for LinkedIn.
Queued for today
- Draft 10 new outreach messages to accounting firms.
- Run a midweek SEO sweep of your landing page.
- Prepare your Thursday newsletter.
Needs you (3)
- Approve the reply to Sarah at Acme Consulting.
- Pick a photo for the newsletter masthead.
- Confirm the pricing change on the landing page.
Credits overnight: 48. Month-to-date: 320 of 600. Remaining: 280.
The format is intentionally consistent — if you read Monday's brief, you know where to find each section on Tuesday. Variety is for essays; operational reading rewards repetition.
When it arrives
Default delivery time is 7:00 AM in your local time zone. The CEO detects your timezone from your browser on first sign-in and confirms it in Settings. If you're a night owl or an early riser, change it.
You can also:
- Switch to an evening brief (delivered at 6:00 PM) if you prefer to wrap the day with a report.
- Enable dual delivery — a lighter morning brief and a heavier end-of-week Friday summary.
- Turn the brief off entirely. The team still runs; you just have to open the app to see status.
Where it lives
The primary surface is the Action Feed in the app — the brief sits at the top, freshest first. You can also enable:
- Email delivery. A text/HTML copy in your inbox at 7:00. Great for phones.
- Slack / Discord webhook. Post to a channel you check first thing.
- Push notification. One tap opens the brief in the app.
All four can be active at once; the content is the same. Pick what fits your morning.
How to act on it
A rhythm that works for most users:
- Skim the three sections. 90 seconds. Flag anything you want to dig into later.
- Clear the "Needs you" list. Tap through to the Approvals Inbox, handle each card, back to inbox zero.
- Adjust today's queue if needed. "Drop the newsletter — I'm sick." The CEO defers it.
- Ask one question. If you're curious about any line — "how many of the overnight emails bounced?" — the CEO answers in one reply.
- Close the tab. Your team is working. You don't have to be here.
Total elapsed time: under ten minutes on a normal day. The brief is meant to compress your business-operations time, not expand it.
Tuning the brief
The CEO adjusts the brief based on your feedback. Useful things to say:
- "Shorter." The CEO drops to three bullets per section.
- "More detail on sales." Sales gets its own sub-section with numbers.
- "Bury the credit stats — I only want them weekly." Moved to Friday.
- "Don't recap things I already know by the afternoon." The CEO drops the Overnight section and leads with Queued.
- "Add a mood line at the top — I want to know if something went sideways." The CEO adds a one-line health indicator.
The brief is a format the CEO adapts to you. It should feel hand-written by week two.
What the brief never does
- Pad empty days. If nothing happened, the brief says so. You won't get a 400-word morning brief built around "we continue to monitor."
- Hide bad news. If an approval was rejected by a lead, or a deploy failed, it's in the brief with a plain-English note.
- Ask you to read logs. If a log line matters, the CEO summarizes it. Logs are one click away for the curious, not required reading.
- Surprise you on cost. Any overnight spend over a threshold you set gets flagged separately.
The Friday summary (optional)
Many users pair a short morning brief with a longer Friday end-of-week summary. The Friday summary zooms out: what shipped, what the metrics moved, what's planned for next week, and whether the 30-day plan is on track. Enable it in Settings → Briefs → Add Friday summary.
Frequently asked
- When does it arrive?
- 7:00 AM local by default. Change it any time.
- Can I get it by email?
- Yes. Settings → Briefs → Email delivery.
- What if nothing happened overnight?
- The brief still ships, but honest and short.
- Can I follow up on a line?
- Yes. Ask the CEO; it expands.
- Are credits in the brief?
- Yes. One-line summary at the bottom. Big spend gets flagged separately.
Key takeaways
- One brief, four sections, consistent format — readable in two minutes.
- Delivered at 7:00 AM local by default; email and webhook optional.
- Tune it by telling the CEO what you want shorter or deeper.
- No padding, no surprises, no logs-as-reading.
What to do next
- Next steps — what to build on in week 1.
- Understanding cards — the UI the brief sits inside.
- Action Feed — the chronological archive.
- How to use AI for daily business operations — the longer essay.
Last guide — next steps
Your first week. Habits, Skills to install, what to ask for next.