The Briefing
A briefing, in this context, is an AI-composed summary that answers "what happened, what needs me, and what can I ignore?" — designed to be the default home screen instead of a channel list.
Most chat tools open on a list of channels sorted by unread count. That default has a quiet consequence: it tells you your job is to clear the list, not to find out what actually matters. A briefing is a deliberate alternative — a per-person, composed summary of what changed, what needs you, what was decided, and what can be safely skipped, generated fresh rather than assembled by you scrolling.
A good briefing has fixed, predictable sections so it stays scannable whether it's a quiet day or a chaotic one, and every row links straight to its source so nothing is a dead end. It's meant to be read in under a minute, with drill-down available for anything that needs more.
The briefing pattern only works if it's genuinely read-only and summary-only — the moment it starts listing every message instead of synthesizing them, it becomes exactly the unread firehose it was meant to replace.
The Briefing, in the product
The Briefing is aanty's default home on every session — never a channel list. It has six fixed sections (what changed, what needs you, what was decided, what's blocked, what agents did, can be ignored), a one-tap drill-down to every source thread, and a date-range control for on-demand or post-vacation catch-up.
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