Needs attention
Overdue, due today, blocked, waiting and high priority — the things that will hurt if you miss them.
Your operational day in 250 words
Needs attention, today, waiting for, you promised, at risk — built from structured queries against your own records and written short enough to actually read.
The brief
Six sections, under 250 words, useful in 30 seconds
A daily brief that takes five minutes to read is a second inbox. The constraint is the feature.
Today
What's actually scheduled for the next few hours, in priority order.
Waiting for
What other people owe you, and how long it's been.
You promised
What you owe other people. The section most people find uncomfortable and most useful.
At risk
Work whose deadline and whose progress have stopped agreeing with each other.
Nothing invented
The brief is generated from structured queries against your records. If a section has nothing in it, it says so rather than filling space.
Why it can be trusted
Written from a query, not from a context window
The generation step never sees a pile of raw text and guesses what matters. It runs the same structured queries the app's own screens run, assembles a compact set of facts, and the model's only job is to phrase them.
That's a narrow job, and narrow jobs are where language models are reliable. It's also why the brief can't tell you about a deadline you never captured — and won't pretend to.
- Hard word budget. 250 words, so it stays scannable on a phone before your first meeting.
- Deterministic inputs. Same records, same brief — the numbers come from the database, not from a summary of a summary.
- Workspace-scoped. Like every other query in Zephyr, it can only see your own workspace's rows.
- Free tier included. A basic brief is on the free plan; the full one is part of Pro.
See it on your own work.
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