The daily digest pattern

A sales manager at a law firm told us: "I check my email at 7 AM. I don't open Slack until 9. By then, I'm behind on everything that happened the first two hours." This is normal. A lot of professionals check email first. They check their messaging apps later. Relay needs to meet them where they actually are. That's why we built the morning digest. Every day at 7 AM, your team gets an email with: - All tasks due today - Urgent announcements from the past 24 hours - Upcoming meetings in the next three days It's one email. It's in the format you already check. It has everything you need to know before you open any other apps. For people who open Relay first, the digest is redundant—the dashboard shows all of it. For people who open email first, it's the difference between being prepared and being surprised. The pattern solves an invisible problem in distributed teams. Everyone assumes everyone has the same information at the same time. But they don't. Someone who starts at 7 AM and someone who starts at 9 AM have fundamentally different context when they sit down to work. The digest is how we sync that context without notifications.