Workflow
Start the dayalready caught up.
Every morning, AIVA reads what happened overnight across your email, calendar, Slack, and GitHub, and hands you one short, ranked brief — the few things that actually need you, before you’ve opened a single tab.
Say it once“Give me my morning brief.”
The problem
Every morning starts cold.
You open six tabs to reconstruct what happened while you were asleep — overnight email, today’s meetings, the Slack DMs you missed, the GitHub notifications piling up. By the time you have the picture, the morning’s already half gone and you still might have missed the one thing that mattered.
How it works
Set it up once. It just keeps happening.
Connect your tools
Link Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, and GitHub once. AIVA reads them on demand with revocable OAuth tokens stored encrypted on your Mac.
Tell AIVA when and what
Say it once in plain language — “Every weekday at 7:45, give me a morning brief: today’s meetings, unread email I should know about, GitHub notifications, and Slack DMs from people I work with closely. Five bullets max.”
AIVA assembles it overnight
On the schedule you set, AIVA scans each source, filters the noise, and ranks what’s left by what actually needs you — saving the recipe so it gets sharper every day.
You skim and act
A short, ranked brief is waiting when you sit down. Reply, snooze, or ask AIVA to handle a line item — and adjust the cadence or sources any time by just saying so.
What AIVA does
The work, handled.
Read overnight email
AIVA scans new mail since your last brief, pulls out what’s genuinely worth knowing, and leaves the newsletters and noise out of it.
Lay out today’s calendar
Your meetings for the day with who’s attending and where, so the shape of your day is clear in one glance.
Catch the Slack you missed
DMs and mentions from the people you actually work with, summarized — without scrolling every channel.
Surface GitHub activity
Notifications, review requests, and assigned issues that landed overnight, ranked by what’s blocking others.
Rank it, keep it short
Everything arrives as a few ranked bullets, not a wall of text. Ask for shorter, or to drop a source, and AIVA remembers.
What changes
What it’s like once AIVA runs this.
Set it once, it just happens
Describe the brief in plain language and AIVA turns it into a recurring loop with the right timing and delivery — no app to check, no reminder to set.
- Recurring and timezone-aware
- Safe if a run is missed
- Quiet until it has something
Loop
Every weekday · 7:45 AM
Morning brief — next run in 14h
The noise, already filtered
AIVA reads everything that landed overnight, drops the newsletters and FYIs, and ranks what’s left by what actually needs you — so the brief is five lines, not fifty.
- Overnight email, Slack, and GitHub merged
- Ranked by what needs you
- Newsletters and noise left out
Working
- Scanned 41 overnight emails
- 3 need you today
- Calendar + Slack + GitHub merged
It knows who matters
AIVA remembers the people and projects you care about, so a DM from your cofounder rises and a cold newsletter doesn’t. The brief gets sharper every day.
- Key people and threads prioritized
- Learns from what you act on
- Less skimming, more signal
Remembered
Set it up by saying
Just say it in plain language.
Every weekday at 7:45 AM, give me a five-bullet morning brief from email, calendar, Slack, and GitHub.
Catch me up — what happened overnight that I need to know about?
Make the morning brief shorter: three bullets, and skip Slack on weekends.
What’s the most important thing on my plate before my first meeting?
The apps it uses
Built on the tools you already have.
Connected app
AIVA for Gmail
AIVA reads the threads that matter, drafts replies in your voice, tracks the promises buried in your email, and follows up so nothing quietly dies in your inbox. It only sends after you say so.
Connected app
AIVA for Google Calendar
AIVA reads your calendar, finds the gaps, preps you for what’s next, and books the things you ask for — checking with you before it changes anything and always confirming before it deletes.
Connected app
AIVA for Slack
AIVA reads the channels you point it at, summarizes what you missed with full thread context, and posts on your behalf — but only after you approve the exact message.
Connected app
AIVA for GitHub
AIVA reads your issues, pull requests, and notifications, turns assigned work into tracked tasks, and files new issues on request — creating only after you approve.
Permission model
You stay in control of every consequential action.
Read-only work happens silently. Anything that changes the world waits for your approval — and destructive actions always ask prominently.
Without your approval, AIVA won’t
No surprises.
These never happen on their own. AIVA drafts and asks; you decide.
- Send any reply or message
- Change, accept, or decline a calendar event
- Mark large swaths of mail read or archived
Local-first notes
Your data, on your machine.
AIVA never sees your passwords — each source connects with a revocable OAuth token, stored encrypted on your Mac.
In Local mode, your mail, calendar, and messages are read on-device and queried on demand, never bulk-uploaded.
Disconnect any source from Settings → Apps and that part of the brief stops immediately.
FAQ
Good questions to ask.
When does the brief arrive?
Whenever you tell it to. Most people pick a weekday time before they start work — “7:45 AM on weekdays” — but you can run it on demand by just asking, or change the cadence conversationally any time.
Which sources can it pull from?
Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, and GitHub today. You choose which to include — drop one and AIVA remembers, add one later and it folds in.
Will it act on anything without asking?
No. The brief is read-only. Anything that changes the world — sending a reply, moving a meeting — is drafted and waits for your approval.
Can I make it shorter or change what’s in it?
Yes. Say “make it three bullets,” “skip Slack,” or “lead with GitHub” and AIVA adjusts the recipe and keeps it that way.
Related workflows
AIVA works better together.
Workflow
Quiet Inbox Triage
Say the word and AIVA reads your unread mail, tells you who it’s from and what it’s about in a line each, flags what genuinely needs you, and drafts the replies that can be handled — holding every one for your approval.
Workflow
Follow-Up Sweep
AIVA watches the threads you care about, notices when one goes quiet, and drafts the nudge before the deal, the intro, or the answer slips through the cracks. You approve; it sends.
Workflow
Meeting Prep
Before any meeting, AIVA assembles a brief — who’s attending, your recent history with each of them, the notes and files that matter, and a few talking points — so you’re never reconstructing context in the first five minutes.
Get started
Let AIVA run Daily Context Restore for you.
Create your account on the web — it carries straight into the Mac app.