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What can my agent actually do?

The daily jobs

Your agent handles the daily jobs first: it triages your inbox and drafts replies in your voice, manages your calendar, and sends you a morning brief in Telegram. Beyond that, it can research trips, prices, products, or topics, and watch for changes — price drops, news, or status updates.

It connects to 100+ apps, including Gmail, Google Sheets, Notion, Slack, Telegram, and more. App actions run from your dashboard, and anything that writes to your apps waits for your approval first. See what's connected on the homepage for the current app catalog.

The founder's real setup

André, Atlas Ally's founder, has documented 8 automations his own agent runs every day. This is his own setup, not a typical example — your mix will depend on which apps you connect and what you ask your agent to do.

  • Morning Brief (daily): calendar, weather, and filtered tech news, delivered before coffee. About 15 minutes recovered per day.
  • Inbox Triage (daily, draft-only): categorizes the last 24 hours of email and drafts replies for urgent items — nothing sends without approval. About 25 minutes recovered per day.
  • Receipt Extraction (daily): finds receipt emails and logs vendor, date, amount, and category to a spreadsheet. About 10 minutes recovered per day.
  • Heartbeat Monitoring (every 30 minutes): checks email, calendar, and server health, and only messages him when something needs attention. About 1 hour recovered per week.
  • System Maintenance (daily, overnight): updates packages and restarts services while he sleeps. About 30 minutes recovered per week.
  • Automated Backups (daily, overnight): backs up configuration and workspace data, scanning for and removing leaked secrets first. About 1 hour recovered per week.
  • "On This Day" (daily): pulls a historical event and pushes an image to his e-ink display each morning — no time saved, just a nice daily touch.
  • Deep Research (on demand): searches across multiple sources in parallel and synthesizes the results into one document. 2-4 hours recovered per session, used a few times a week.

By his own accounting, that adds up to roughly 8-10 hours of admin recovered most weeks.

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