01 / Connect
Connect Gmail
Sign in with Google and grant Briefd read-only access. We never send, delete, or modify anything in your inbox — we only read the messages you ask us to watch.
How it works / Inbox to brief
Four steps from inbox to brief.
Briefd sits quietly between your inbox and your attention. Here's exactly what happens, end to end.
The pipeline
Your inboxRead-only
Claude AISummarize
The brief3-line TL;DR
Your phonePushed
02 / Tag senders
Pick your newsletters
Tag the senders you actually read. Everything else in Gmail stays exactly where it is and is never opened, scanned, or stored.
03 / Summarize
Claude distills it
When a watched newsletter lands, Claude strips the HTML noise and returns a clean title, a three-line TL;DR, and the key takeaways.
04 / Notify
Get briefed
A push notification arrives the second your brief is ready — on iOS and Android, even with the app closed. One card, one tap to the original if you want it.
What Briefd touches
- Read-only access to the newsletter senders you explicitly tag
- The contents of those specific emails, to generate a summary
- Your email address, used to sign you in and notify you
What it never does
- Send, reply to, delete, or modify any message
- Read mail from senders you haven't tagged
- Sell, share, or use your data for advertising
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