Your life briefs you.

Your email, calendar, Slack, news, messages, and more — synthesised, prioritised, and read to you before you open a single app. Fully customisable — choose your sources, set your length, tune what matters.

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The Brief — Sat May 16, 10:21pm~ 1:05
1:05

An actual morning brief

Early access — 127 of 500 spots taken.  No spam. One email when it’s ready.

The 16 minutes that change the day.

  1. While you sleep.

    Your assistant reads your inbox, calendar, Slack, messages, and more. It identifies what matters, who needs a response, and what you can safely ignore.

  2. You wake up.

    Your brief plays automatically. Everything that matters, nothing that doesn't. No notification badge. No inbox. Just voice.

  3. You act.

    You ask one follow-up. Approve two replies. You haven't opened an app. Your morning is yours — not your notifications'.

This is what a brief sounds like.

Wednesday, May 8 — 6:15am

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, the 8th. Four things matter today.

First — your lead investor hasn’t responded to Monday’s term sheet follow-up. They tend to reply Wednesday mornings. I’ve drafted a short note; say “send it” when you’re ready.

Second — your engineering channel had 31 messages overnight. One thread needs your input: the API rate limits are blocking the demo build. Your team is waiting on a call from you before they proceed.

Third — Northfield’s renewal is in eleven days. Their last three replies have been shorter than usual. I’ve drafted a personal note — worth sending before this afternoon.

Fourth — one story in the news: a major bank announced an AI chief-of-staff pilot for executive teams. Relevant to your positioning. I’ve saved it to your reading list.

Two external meetings today. First is at 10. Your morning is yours.

Length: 1:07  ·  Items reviewed: 34  ·  Actions queued: 1

Who it’s for.

Solo founders

“For the founder who wakes up at 5:47am and immediately checks Slack. This is what that habit was always reaching for.”

You don't have a chief of staff. Now you have something better.

Operators

“For the operator running three companies who needs one signal, not thirty notifications across four platforms.”

Context-switching is expensive. A brief is cheap.

Chief-of-staff archetypes

“For anyone who's realised inbox zero was never the point — the point was knowing what matters before it becomes urgent.”

You already process this manually every morning. This makes it automatic.

Yours to configure.

No two mornings are the same. Your brief shouldn’t be either.

dAIly is built to fit your workflow, not replace it with someone else’s. Every dimension of the briefing is a lever you control — from which apps you connect to how long the brief runs. Set it once and forget it, or adjust it as your life changes.

Everything on the roadmap. Nothing locked in.

Sources

Gmail, Calendar, Slack, news feeds, Messages, and more — connect what you want, ignore the rest.

Length

A focused sprint or a full read-through. Set a target length and the brief adapts.

Schedule

Once at dawn. Midday check-in. Evening wind-down. Run one or all three.

Priorities

Weight urgent emails heavier. Lead with your calendar. Bury low-signal newsletters.

Tone

Brisk and executive, or conversational and measured. Yours to dial in.

Depth

Headlines and decisions only, or full context on each thread. Per-source granularity.

A few questions.

Technically yes. Practically no. You never see a chat window. You never prompt anything. You wake up, and your day is already understood. The AI is infrastructure — the ritual is the product.

You choose. Connect only the sources you're comfortable with. By default, dAIly processes content in-memory to generate your brief — raw email bodies and message threads are never written to disk. Only the synthesised summary is retained (cached for 24 hours so your morning playback is instant, then discarded). OAuth tokens are AES-256 encrypted at rest and never exposed to the LLM layer. Local-first processing — where the brief is generated entirely on your machine — is on the roadmap.

Yes. Every source is opt-in. Don't want your Slack DMs in the brief? Leave it disconnected. Only want calendar and email? Connect just those. You can also configure dAIly to use metadata only — subject lines, sender names, event titles — without processing message bodies at all. Privacy-first mode is a first-class setting, not an afterthought.

Raw emails and messages are processed in-memory and never stored. Only the final brief is cached. OAuth credentials are encrypted with AES-256 and stored in a secure vault — they're never logged, never passed to the AI, and never shared. I'm a solo founder building this for operators like me. I'd rather get this right than scale fast.

First 500 early-access users in mid-2026. Founding partners — the first 100 — shape the product and get lifetime access. Join the waitlist and reply to the confirmation email if you want to be one of them.

Because you already have eyes full of screens. A brief you listen to while making coffee is categorically different from one you read between notifications. Your morning deserves something more deliberate.