River connects to your email, calendar, and contacts — and turns that context into an AI executive that knows your priorities, your voice, and the people who matter.
Chief of Staff is a pre-built Space with automations that run your day, draft communications in your voice, prep you for meetings, and keep your most important relationships warm — from the moment you connect your accounts.
What It Does
Four pillars. One system.
Communicate
Triage your inbox and draft responses in your voice. The Inbox Triage automation classifies every thread — urgent, important, low, noise — and writes ready-to-send drafts for the ones that matter. What used to take 90 minutes of morning processing takes about 5.
Learn
The Morning Briefing automation runs before you open your inbox. It scans your calendar, surfaces urgent email, and outputs a single-screen brief. You start the day knowing exactly what matters, without doing the prep yourself.
Deepen Relationships
Your Contacts integration becomes a live relationship system. It tracks interaction recency, surfaces stale relationships before they go cold, and drafts outreach with the right context already loaded.
What's Included
This Space ships pre-seeded and ready to run:
- Operating Manual — your AI behavior rule. The setup automation fills this in with your working style, key people, and preferences so every AI response in this Space reflects how you work.
- Automations — Morning Briefing, Inbox Triage, Bootstrap Analysis, and Chief of Staff Setup run as structured AI workflows, each with a defined role and outputs.
- Folder structure — Config, Outputs/Briefings, Outputs/Drafts, and Logs — all pre-created so outputs land in the right place.
- Setup Guide — walks through connecting your integrations and running the bootstrap analysis on your email and calendar history.
Getting Started
- Click Use Template to create your Space
- Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, and Contacts in Integrations
- The Chief of Staff Setup automation will guide you through setup — starting with a bootstrap analysis that reads your history and builds your initial profile
- The setup automation will fill in your Operating Manual automatically
Philosophy
A few beliefs this system is built on.
AI should push you, not just serve you. A great chief of staff challenges priorities, says no to low-leverage work, and keeps you honest about where your time goes.
Clarity beats comprehensiveness. Fewer, clearer priorities. Explicit tradeoffs. Fast decisions with flagged assumptions.
Systems compound. Every interaction makes the AI smarter. Contact notes get richer, your style gets more accurate. The longer you use it, the better it gets.