On their own
- Read email, chats and calendar for the time away
- Put what happened in order of what needs you
- List this week’s meetings and deadlines
- Draft replies for the urgent items
Founders and leadership
Back from time away? Get the brief on what you missed.
Say “I was out for nine days”. A team goes through the email, chats and calendar for that stretch and tells you what happened, in order of what needs you first, with draft replies waiting. It is a one-off on demand, not a daily routine.
Open source. macOS, Windows and Linux.
Catch me up
I was out for nine days. Go through my email, my chats and my calendar for that time and tell me what happened, with what needs me first. Draft replies for the urgent ones and send nothing.
Your Chief of Staff put a team on it
- Research
- Copy
Back after 9 days
- 214 emails read, 6 need you today
- 2 meetings moved while you were out
- 1 decision made without you, with who and why
- 6 reply drafts waiting
DoneThe brief and the six drafts are ready, with nothing sent.
An example of the job. Your team works on your own work.
The team it puts on it.
Your Chief of Staff picks the specialists the job needs. Each one has its own role, instructions and engine.
Chief of Staff
Puts what happened in order, with what needs you at the top
Research
Reads the email, chats and calendar for the time you were away
Copy
Drafts replies for the urgent items in your voice
How it runs.
- Step 1Say how long you were awayType it in plain words, or send it as a message from the airport.
- Step 2Everything is readEmail, chats and your calendar for that stretch, from the apps you have connected, or from notes you paste in.
- Step 3The briefWhat needs you first, what can wait, what was decided without you and what is coming up this week.
- Step 4Replies waitingDrafts for the urgent items. Nothing goes out until you say yes.
What the team does, and what waits for you.
Waits for you
- Sending any reply (new bots start in Ask mode, which asks first on Claude Code and Codex)
- Accepting or declining a meeting
- Messaging anyone new
Start from a ready-made team.
From Murage’s library. Import one, look inside, and give it your brief.
Skills the ready-made teams load.
What the library teams above bring with them. Skill Guard scans each one.
- Decision framesIf they ask you to decide for them, push back: the frame is yours; the call is theirs.
- Founder cadenceIf they ask for a company operating rhythm, route to Ops, that's the team layer.
- Stuck and unstuckWork through a stuck decision: keep going, change course or stop, with the reasons for each laid out.
- Second Order ThinkingApplies second-order thinking to a decision by mapping direct consequences, then the consequences of those consequences, then third-order effects.
- Decision Making FrameworkSynthesizes First Principles thinking, Inversion, Second-Order Thinking and Bayesian Updating.
- Mental Model ToolkitA curated collection of essential mental models for better thinking and decision-making, including inversion, second-order thinking and Occam's razor.
What you need.
What it takes to run this job. Your AI provider bills you as usual.
- Murage and an AI engine (your existing Claude or ChatGPT plan, or an API key)
- Gmail, Google Calendar or Slack through Flux Router credits or your own connected-apps key, for whichever you want it to read. Or paste in what you have
Rather have it set up for you?
We build your first catch me up team with you, connect your tools and write your House Rules. Tell us what you need and we’ll quote before anything is booked.
Questions about catch me up.
How is this different from the morning brief?
The morning brief is a daily routine. This is a one-off for when you have been away, covering a longer stretch and ordered by what needs you now.
Does it need to be on a schedule?
No. You ask for it when you are back. It works while Murage is open on your computer.
Can I ask for it from my phone?
If you have set up chat with your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack or Discord, you can send the request there.
Catch me up: hand it to a team tonight.
Give your first job to Murage.
Download the app, connect the AI you already pay for, and tell your Chief of Staff what needs doing. Plan on about ten minutes from install to a working team.
No account needed · Runs on the AI plan you already pay for