Brief is available as a web app with embedded AI chat and via chat in WhatsApp. In either chat interface, you can ask questions about your work in natural language or invoke a named skill to run a structured workflow. The examples below show what to ask and what you get back.
What is the difference between a skill and an agent in Brief?
An agent is Brief running in a loop—interactively or in the background—using a prompt you provide. It can call tools and take multiple steps to find information and act on it.
A skill is procedural memory: instructions that teach an agent how to accomplish a specific type of task. When you invoke a skill, the agent reads those instructions and follows them. Skills make the same workflow repeatable and consistent every time you run it.
In practice: you talk to the agent in chat; the agent reads and applies skills when you invoke them by name.
What skills can I ask Brief to run?
You do not have to know what to ask. Brief has a set of named skills you can invoke by name in chat. Ask "what skills do you have access to?" to see the full list at any time.
- Decision Framing. Frames a tough decision, weighs your criteria, surfaces real options, and recommends a path.
- Draft in Voice. Drafts a reply or new message in your own voice, grounded in the thread and relationship context.
- Plan My Week. Reviews your upcoming week and recommends how to shape it around what actually matters.
- Post-Meeting Follow-up. Extracts notes, decisions, and action items from a past meeting and drafts your follow-up messages.
- Pre-Mortem. Pressure-tests a plan by assuming it has already failed and identifying what you should fix now.
- Prep for 1:1. Pulls recent interactions, open commitments, and suggested topics before you meet with someone one-on-one.
- Prep for Meeting. Prepares you for an upcoming meeting with attendee context, open threads, and relevant commitments.
- Prioritize. Forces a ranking on competing demands so you can decide what to drop, defer, or delegate.
- Reflect on Week. Reviews the past week against your commitments and surfaces patterns worth carrying forward.
- Research Company. Builds a brief on a company by pulling your internal records, network connections, and recent signals.
- Research Person. Builds a profile of a person to help you understand how they think and how best to engage them.
- Set Goal. Helps you set, refine, and pressure-test a goal before you commit to it.
- Triage Inbox. Reviews your recent unhandled email and sorts it into respond-now, FYI, and delegate.
How do I triage my inbox?
Most inboxes contain a mix of things that need an answer now, things worth knowing, and things that belong to someone else. Reading through all of it to figure out which is which takes time you rarely have.
triage my inbox
Brief reads your recent unhandled email, sorts it into respond-now, FYI, and delegate, and recommends a next action for each item that needs one.
How do I prepare for a 1:1?
Walking into a 1:1 without context on recent interactions and open commitments means starting from scratch every time. Brief does the reconstruction before you walk in.
prep for my 1:1 with [person's name]
Brief pulls recent interactions with that person, surfaces open commitments on both sides, and suggests topics worth raising.
How do I prepare for any meeting?
Meeting briefings run automatically for calendar events. When you want to go deeper on a specific conversation, you can ask on demand.
prep for my meeting with [person's name]
prep for [meeting name]
Brief identifies who is attending, pulls relevant recent threads, and surfaces decisions and commitments that belong in the room.
How do I reflect on my week?
Most weeks close without a clear read on what moved and what did not. Brief gives you a structured look back.
reflect on my week
Brief reviews what happened against what you planned: what completed, what slipped, and what patterns are worth carrying forward.
How does Brief remember context across conversations?
Each conversation with Brief does not start cold. Brief maintains context at three levels.
Working memory is the current chat history. Semantic memory is the Knowledge Graph built from your connected data, the persistent record of people, projects, decisions, commitments, and goals. Procedural memory is the set of skills Brief knows how to run.
Together, these mean Brief can pick up where you left off, answer questions about your history, and run the right skill for what you need.