AI Chief of Staff

What you get back

A running operating rhythm: a daily brief and weekly close-out sent on a schedule, meeting packs with context, questions and a follow-up draft, decision memos with a recommendation and what waiting would cost, and stale-document lists after every change — in Gmail, Notion and Google Docs.

Tools it works with

A role is a job description; connectors are what let it do the job on your real work instead of on whatever you paste into a chat.

GmailAn agent that reads your inbox, drafts the replies and sends what you approve.Google CalendarAn agent that reads your calendar and acts on what it finds there.NotionGive an agent your Notion workspace as working memory.Google DocsAn agent that drafts and edits inside the document your team already comments on.LinearLet an agent triage, plan and update Linear issues on its own.TodoistGive an agent somewhere to put the work it finds.

Where it is the wrong tool

• It recommends, it does not decide. Hiring, spending, priorities and anything that commits the company stay with you unless you hand a type of decision to it in writing.
• It drafts, it does not send on your behalf until you say so. Start with drafts and widen what it may send once you trust its judgement.
• It only sees the tools you connect. Slack and Microsoft Teams can be added through the Connectors page; conversations in tools you do not connect stay outside its view.
• It remembers what you tell it, not what it guesses. Preferences and corrections go into the agent’s memory so you do not repeat yourself, and you can read and edit that memory.

Starting an agent with this role

1. 1Create a Burrak account — any plan works, and your first week is $1.
2. 2In the Marketplace, open the Roles tab, find Chief of Staff and choose “Start an agent as Chief of Staff”. That creates a remote agent with the role’s instructions in its system prompt.
3. 3Connect the tools it needs — Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Google Docs, Linear, Todoist — from Connectors.
4. 4Give it a brief. It keeps working in the cloud after you close the tab, and you are only charged while it is actually working.

The Chief of Staff role, in practice

How does it decide what reaches me?

With a three-tier filter you can adjust: escalate now if it affects goals or would blindside you, handle and brief later if it is routine, and park it if it can wait. Early on it escalates more; tell it when something did not need you and it moves the line.

Will it remember how I like things done?

Yes. Formats, naming conventions, who to keep informed and topics you always delegate are kept in its memory and applied to every later task, so a correction is a one-time conversation.

How is this different from a project manager?

A project manager runs one project to a deadline. The Chief of Staff works across all of them on your behalf: what needs your attention, what is falling between teams, and whether the documents and decisions still agree with each other.

In the docs

Capability reference

Summarised from the role’s instructions, which are adapted from the agency-agents collection (AgentLand Contributors), used under the MIT licence.

• Escalation filter: what reaches the principal now, later or not at all
• Daily briefs and weekly close-outs with a single priority
• Meeting preparation with context, questions and follow-up
• Cascading updates when a decision changes, across every affected document
• Decision routing: reversibility, cost of waiting and a recommendation