Daily Brief
helio / day-plannerGive it your channels. It scans for commitments, delivers a morning brief, and runs an evening slip check every day. Open items stay visible until they close.
Every morning at 9am, scan my Slack channels for commitments I made, check them against my calendar, and send me one brief with what's fixed, what's due, and anything at risk of slipping. Run an evening slip check and carry forward whatever didn't close. Ask me what you need before you start.
Swap in your channels and the times you want the brief and the slip check.
What is Daily Brief?
A teammate that runs your day on a schedule: it pulls commitments from your channels, merges them with your calendar into one morning brief, and runs an evening slip check that carries unresolved items forward. It surfaces the picture and the trade-offs, and leaves the call on what moves to you.
What it does
Any chatbot plans a day once. Helio runs it as a standing job — from your context, kept current, delivered to you.
| Owns the job, not just the plan | It extracts commitments, checks overload, sends the brief, and runs the evening slip check, escalating a repeated blocker instead of letting it disappear. |
| Runs again without starting over | Once the daily cycle works, it is saved. Each morning runs that vetted process on a schedule, starting from context instead of a blank prompt. |
| Works from your context | It scans your Slack channels and calendar, so the brief reflects what you actually committed to and the hours you actually have. |
| Keeps itself current | When a channel is renamed or a handle dies, it flags the broken reference instead of failing silently. |
| Lands where you work | The morning brief and the slip check land in Slack. You don't open Helio to see your day. |
Three things it gets right
Commitments stop vanishing
A line like "I'll send that by EOD" becomes a tracked item with a due date and an owner, pulled straight from your channel scroll.
It says when a day won't fit
It lays your meetings, tasks, and commitments against the hours you actually have, then suggests what to delay, shorten, delegate, or cut. A real trade-off you can act on.
The evening slip check
Each night it compares what moved against what got pushed, carries unresolved items into tomorrow's brief, and escalates anything that keeps slipping.
What Daily Brief connects to.
Questions
- Does it auto-reschedule my calendar?
- No. Helio surfaces recommendations and tracks what slipped. You move things; the AI makes the picture visible, not the decision.
- How does it know what I committed to?
- It scans your team channels for patterns: 'I'll send that by...', 'let me follow up on...', 'looping you in'. Each match becomes a tracked item with a due date.
- What is the evening slip check?
- At the end of each day, Helio reviews what moved against what got pushed. Items that slipped are carried forward with context so tomorrow's morning brief starts clean.
- How is this different from a calendar app or a task manager?
- Calendar apps block time and task managers store to-dos. Helio connects commitments to your actual day, tracks whether the protected time got used as planned, and escalates items that keep slipping.
- What happens when there's genuinely too much for one day?
- Helio says so directly instead of quietly cramming everything in. It suggests what to delay, shorten, delegate, or cut, so you get a real trade-off rather than a plan that only looks productive on paper.
Give Helio your channels and get back a day that holds.
Connect your workspace, run a first morning brief, and review what Helio found before anything gets tracked or surfaced.
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