Build the chief of staff you can't afford to hire
A real chief of staff reads across your calendar, inbox, messages, and CRM, decides what actually matters today, and hands you a ranked brief before you're awake. You can't put one on payroll. So describe your business in plain English, and this builds one — a finished prompt you paste into Claude so the brief runs itself every weekday.
🔒 What this touches: the answers you type are sent once to an AI model to write your prompt, and the result shows here. Nothing is stored, and this tool connects to none of your tools. The prompt you get runs later inside your own Claude, with your own connectors and your own permissions — read-only by default, and it drafts and offers but never sends on its own.
Put it to work in 3 steps
- Turn on your connectors. In the Claude desktop app, open Settings → Connectors and switch on the tools you listed — calendar, email, messages, CRM. Set each one read-only if you want; the brief only needs to read.
- Make a Routine and paste this in. In Claude Code, open Routines → New Routine (in Cowork it's a Scheduled Task inside a Project). Paste the prompt above as the instructions.
- Schedule it — weekdays, your morning. Set it for the time you want the brief to land. Run it once by hand first to check the shape, then let the schedule take over.
It won't be perfect on day one — that's the point. Read the first few briefs and tell Claude what to change ("news is too broad," "the memory log is too long"). It rewrites its own instructions and the next morning reflects it.
Why a chief of staff, not an inbox sorter
An assistant screens and schedules. A chief of staff synthesizes: reads across everything you're behind on, decides what actually matters to your business today, and hands you the two calls that move the week — with the first one drafted before your coffee's cold. That second job is the whole value, and it's the one no app sells you, because it takes judgment, not filters.
You already do this job. You do it at 6am, half-awake, rebuilding your own to-do list from five open tabs and a bad night's worry. The point of this build isn't a smarter inbox. It's handing that one task — decide what today is about — to something that read everything while you slept. This is the "Automate" in the READY framework done the safe way: it drafts and it offers, a human still decides, so you get the leverage without handing over the wheel.