Users want an AI agent that provides a consolidated morning briefing, summarizing emails, Slack messages, and calendar events with priorities. This reduces time spent manually scanning multiple platforms.
I've been messing with AI agents for about six months. Most of that time was honestly wasted on cool demos that broke the second I tried to use them for real work. A few weeks ago I finally got something that stuck. I work a full-time PM job and I was spending way too much time on admin that wasn't really "thinking" work. So I set up an assistant connected to my email, calendar and Slack. Each "skill" is a task it knows how to do: morning briefing, inbox triage, meeting prep, that kind of thing. Unlike ChatGPT, it actually remembers previous conversations and plugs into my real tools. What changed for me: * **Morning routine:** I used to spend \~25 min scanning email, Slack and calendar before I could even start working. Now I get a summary with priorities when I open my laptop. Takes me 3 min to review and I'm good. * **Meeting prep:** Before a call I'd scramble through old notes and emails looking for context. Now it pulls relevant threads and past decisions automatically. 15 min of searching became just reading a one-pager. * **Slack catch-up:** After a focus block, catching up on 6 channels used to take 20+ min. Now I get a summary of what actually matters. * **Follow-ups:** I'd forget half my action items by end of day. The agent tracks them from meeting notes and pings me before EOD. The result? I reclaimed maybe 1 to 1.5 hours every day. That's time I now spend on side projects and actually building stuff instead of tab-switching through admin. Not gonna lie, the memory sometimes surfaces old irrelevant context, and the Slack summaries miss nuance in longer threads. I still skim the important channels myself. The whole thing runs on something called ClawRapid if anyone's curious. They have a list of PM-specific skills that was pretty helpful for figuring out what to automate first. Anyone else here automating their day job workflows with agents? Curious what setups people are running.