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Daily Briefs

Project-aware briefs delivered by email, SMS, and in-app — with a chat that acts on them.

Updated 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z 3 min read

A brief is a short read on where your work actually stands — what’s moving, what’s blocked, what changed since last time, and what deserves your attention today. It’s how BuildOS shows up when you aren’t inside the app.

Types

  • Per-project briefs. Deep-dive updates scoped to a single project.
  • Daily master briefs. A rollup across every active project, with today’s priorities and the thread that connects them.

Delivery

  • In-app. Always available on the Briefs page, with an analytics tab for generation stats, delivery success, and engagement.
  • Email. Delivered to the address on your account at your scheduled time.
  • SMS. Opt in from profile preferences.

Mix and match. You can turn channels on and off per brief type.

What a brief contains

Briefs are generated from your project graph, not a generic summary. Each one typically includes:

  • Project status — real progress, not a restated task list.
  • Priority actions — what to focus on today or this week.
  • Blockers and open questions — items that need a decision.
  • Recent context — insights pulled from the latest dumps and updates.
  • Strategic alignment — how active projects ladder into the goals you named.

Act on it in chat

Tap a brief card on the dashboard and the agent opens with the brief loaded. Useful prompts:

  • “Turn today’s priorities into calendar blocks.”
  • “Explain why this task is on today’s brief.”
  • “What did I actually ship this week across all projects?”
  • “Pick three things I should finish before Friday.”

Anything the agent creates from a brief chat — events, new tasks, document updates — is written back into your project graph.

Cadence and honest pacing

You control the cadence. If a brief channel gets noisy, turn that channel off or change the schedule in brief settings. You can also tune brief cadence and notification preferences through the agent in a conversation — “send briefs every other weekday” is a perfectly fine thing to ask for.

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