The Brief
The Brief is Cadence's daily briefing, built overnight from the executive's calendar, inbox, sent items and yesterday's transcripts, and on screen by 6am so the day starts already planned.
The Brief is the first thing an executive sees each day. It is not an empty screen waiting to be filled. It is the day, already read and planned: protected focus blocks, the meetings that matter, the open commitments, and the first action ready to begin.
It is built overnight by Claude, reading the executive's calendar, inbox, sent items and the previous day's transcripts through MCP. The EA can adjust it before the executive reads it.
Related terms
An executive operating layer is the software layer that runs an executive's day. It reads the systems they already use, decides what matters, and surfaces the right work at the right moment, across the executive's own device and their EA's workspace.
The plan lifecycle is the set of explicit stages an executive's day moves through in Cadence: Draft, Proposed, Approved, Active and Closed, so every change has clear ownership and status.
Executive orchestration is the practice of coordinating an executive's time, focus, priorities and commitments as a single system, usually between the executive and their EA, rather than managing each in a separate tool.
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