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AI that shows up before you ask
A scheduled task is a prompt on a clock. You write the ask once, pick the schedule, and the results land on their own: every morning, every Monday, every Friday at 3. No remembering, no re-typing.
Your week, delivered on schedule
- Mon 7:00
Your day ahead
3 appointments. 2 emails waiting on you. The Alvarez invoice is 5 days out.
- Mon 8:00
Competitor watch
Summit Roofing raised its tune-up price. New reviews mention missed windows.
- Fri 3:00
Social drafts
Three post drafts from this week's jobs, in your voice, ready to approve.
Illustrative examples with made-up details.
The idea
The difference between a tool and a helper
Everything else on this site waits for you to show up and ask. A scheduled task flips that: the asking happens once, and from then on the answers come to you. It is the closest thing to having someone whose morning job is prepping your day.
The best schedules are boring on purpose. A short briefing you actually read every day beats an impressive report you open twice.
Good first schedules
Four that earn their spot in a week
Every weekday at 7
The morning briefing
Today's appointments, the emails still waiting on a reply from you, and the one thing that slipped past its date.
Every Monday at 8
The competitor watch
What changed across your closest competitors this week: prices, offers, hours, and what new reviews keep bringing up.
Every Friday at 3
The social drafts
A look at what is getting attention in your trade this week, plus three post drafts in your voice, ready to approve or toss.
Twice a month
The local radar
Permits filed, developments announced, and rate changes in your service area. The stuff you find out about late.
The competitor watch pairs well with the battlecard skill: run the deep version once, then let the schedule keep it fresh.
Where to find it
Both big tools can do this now
On Claude's paid plans. You describe the task and the schedule in plain English, and it runs in Claude's cloud, so it fires on time even with your laptop closed. The strongest fit for the examples on this page.
Also on paid plans. It leans toward reminders and check-ins that arrive as messages, and runs less often. Good for a daily nudge; lighter than Claude's version for real research work.
Details shift as these tools update, so poke around the settings of whichever one you use. The concept on this page is the durable part.
Keeping it useful
Three habits that keep schedules worth having
Start with one. Run a single morning briefing for two weeks before adding anything. A schedule you ignore trains you to ignore all of them.
Everything drafts, nothing sends. Scheduled work lands as drafts and summaries for you to act on. The one rule does not take mornings off: AI drafts, you decide.
Prune what you skim. If you have not really read one for two weeks, delete it or make it sharper and shorter. Fewer, better deliveries win.
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