Automations
Automations are jobs Brea does for you without being asked. Some run on a schedule, like a summary of your day every morning. Others run the moment something happens in one of your apps, like new mail arriving or a payment failing.
Manage them from the Automations page in your dashboard. The page has two tabs:
- Yours shows the automations you’ve turned on.
- Library shows the ready-made automations you can pick from.
If nothing in the library fits, you can ask Brea in chat to build your own.
Before you start
Section titled “Before you start”Brea needs somewhere to send results. Message her on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, or iMessage at least once before turning on your first automation. See Messaging Apps.
If an automation needs an app you haven’t connected yet, it shows Connect first. Tap it to go to the Integrations page.
What Brea will and won’t do
Section titled “What Brea will and won’t do”Most automations only read and report. They look through your accounts and send you a summary.
Email is drafts only. Brea writes drafts in Gmail for you to review. She cannot send email. She can add labels and archive messages, but only ones that match rules you write yourself. Leave a rule list empty and she does nothing.
A few automations can act, and every one of those starts switched off. During setup you decide whether to turn the action on. They can:
- Post a message to Slack or Telegram
- Send a WhatsApp message using a template you already had approved
- Comment on a Trello card
- Move files in Google Drive, Dropbox, or Canva
- Create Google Docs or Notion pages
- Add rows to a Google Sheet, add cards to Trello, or update Todoist tasks
- Book focus time on your calendar
When an automation posts something for you, it posts your exact wording. Brea doesn’t write the content.
Brea never posts to Instagram, sends Instagram messages, replies or reacts in Slack, posts on Reddit, emails your Stripe customers, retries a charge, or issues a refund.