No. Two things keep that simple. First, the Gmail filters file the noisy senders before the brief worker ever runs — only items in the Distill/* labels get read. Your client email, your accounts, your personal stuff is never touched.

Second, the worker stores nothing beyond a 30-day rolling archive of the briefs it has generated. We do not train models on your content, we do not retain message bodies, and the Gmail OAuth scope is read-only on the labels you nominate.

You get a one-page admin to add, remove, or repoint anything: Gmail senders, RSS feeds, tag monitors, the brief template, even the 7am delivery time. Changes go live overnight.

On the Hosted tier we'll also do up to five swaps a month for you on request — handy when you subscribe to something new and want it in the routine without faff.

They never get filtered. The routine only touches senders you explicitly flag as noisy (your LinkedIn digest, Lenny's Newsletter, the Notion product team — that kind of thing). Anything from a human you correspond with, anything that looks like a client, anything from an unknown sender goes straight to your inbox like normal.

As a safety net, there's a "surfaced" rule that lifts anything filed under Distill/* back up to your inbox if it names you, your business, or a tag you watch. False negatives self-correct.

You keep everything. The Cloudflare Worker code is in a repo in your name. The Gmail filters are in your Gmail. The RSS roster and tag monitor list export as a JSON file. We give you a 15-minute handover call to move the worker from our infrastructure to yours, and you're back to running on Cloudflare's free tier.

Nothing is encrypted with our keys, sold to a third party, or held hostage. The setup is yours.

We quote per person, because the work is genuinely different. A solo founder watching a dozen sources is a different setup than a partner-track lawyer watching four newsletters, a tag list, and a regulator's blog. Drop us a note with the rough shape of what you'd want watching and we'll come back with a number.

The pieces that drive price: how many sources, how many tag monitors, whether you want us to host the worker on our infrastructure or hand it to you on Cloudflare's free tier, and how much custom shaping you want on the brief sections. Most setups land within a couple of weekday afternoons of work.

The brief at the top of this page is a real morning. Different sections will surface for different people — a lawyer's brief looks nothing like a designer's brief — but the shape is identical.

On request we'll generate a one-off sample brief from your last 24 hours of Gmail without charging or installing anything. Drop "sample brief" in the contact form.