Guides · September 7, 2026 · 4 min read
The Daily Summary: Your AI Employee's Home Base
Every morning I open one screen: the Daily Summary. It shows what my Kolo handled overnight, what is waiting on my approval, and what still needs a decision from me.
By Paul Willmes, COO, Head of Product at Kolo
The first screen I open
Most mornings I have not finished my coffee before I know where my day stands. I open Kolo and I do not get a blank prompt asking what I want. I get the Daily Summary: a short read of what my Kolo did while I was away, what it paused for me to approve, and what still needs a call only I can make. Ten years ago that first hour was spent reconstructing the state of things from email and Slack and half-remembered conversations. Now the reconstruction is done before I sit down, and I spend the hour deciding instead of digging.
That is the whole idea behind the Daily Summary, and it is why we made it home base. When you are signed in and open Kolo, this is where you land. Everything else in the product is one click away from here.
What the summary actually shows
The Daily Summary is not a feed of everything that happened. It is a ranked brief, ordered from what cannot wait to what already resolved. It opens with a plain-language overview of your day, then breaks into three sections in a deliberate order:
- Needs your follow-up. The items that are stuck on you. An approval sitting in the queue, a reply someone is waiting on, a decision your Kolo cannot make alone. This is the section I read first and act on first.
- Worth watching. Things in motion that are fine for now but could turn into follow-ups. A slow-moving thread, a routine that ran long, a number drifting the wrong way. You skim these so nothing surprises you later.
- Handled for you. What your Kolo took care of on its own, so you can see the work without having to touch it. On a quiet day this is most of the brief, and that is the point: a good morning is a short list of things that need you and a long list of things that did not.
Alongside the brief you get the day's shape at a glance: today's events pulled from your connected Google Calendar or Outlook, your open Tasks, and your Routines with their next run times. It is the difference between a schedule you keep in your head and one your AI employee keeps for you.
Built for a decision, not a scroll
A summary that only informs is a nicer inbox. The Daily Summary is built to move you from reading to acting without a detour. The approvals in the top section are live: the higher-risk actions your Kolo flagged for sign-off surface here, and each one takes you straight to the approval to sign off, adjust, or decline. That ties straight into how Kolo works everywhere else. It scores each action low, medium, or high risk, keeps the routine steps moving, and pauses the consequential ones for you. The Daily Summary is where those pauses come to rest each morning.
When a line raises a question, you do not go hunting. Every brief has an Ask Kolo box. Ask about a specific item and Kolo opens a thread with that piece of the summary already loaded as context, so you are one message away from getting it resolved rather than re-explaining what you were looking at. Reading and acting are the same motion.
It meets you where your morning starts
Not everyone starts the day at a desk. So the Daily Summary is home base on the web workspace and in the mobile app, and from any summary you can send it onward: post it to a Slack channel, get it as a text message, or receive it as a formatted email digest. A contractor can read the morning brief from a truck. An owner can skim it on a phone before the first meeting. The people who live in Slack can have it land there. It is one brief, delivered to the channel you already check first.
This is where a team AI employee earns its keep over a solo assistant. A chat assistant waits for you to open it and ask. The Daily Summary comes to you, already knows what mattered overnight, and puts the decisions where you will see them.
Seeing across the team, without surveillance
Each person on a Kolo team has their own Kolo and their own Daily Summary. For an organization owner, that raises an obvious question: how do you see across everyone's work without reading over their shoulders? The owner can open a Team Member's summary for a read-only view of what that person's Kolo has been up to. It is built on records and ledgers, the same handled-and-pending shape you see in your own brief, and it does not read through anyone's connected inboxes, calendars, or documents, and it does not open their private chats. Oversight of the work, not surveillance of the person. (This owner view is part of Boss Mode, and worth confirming against your own plan and role.)
Start your morning here
The Daily Summary changed a small habit that turned out to matter. I no longer start the day by asking my AI employee what to do. I start by reading what it already did and deciding on the few things it saved for me. If you want your team's mornings to start from a decision instead of a blank screen, that is what this surface is for.
To see the Daily Summary and the rest of Kolo running for your own team, Book a Demo.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Daily Summary?
It is the home screen of your Kolo workspace. Instead of a blank chat box, you land on a short brief of what your Kolo handled, what is waiting for your approval, and what still needs a decision from you, grouped so the items that need you are at the top.
Does the Daily Summary show my whole team's work?
You see your own summary by default. The organization owner can open a Team Member's summary for oversight, which reads records and ledgers rather than anyone's private chats. It never reads through a Team Member's connected inboxes or documents.
Can I get the Daily Summary somewhere other than the web app?
Yes. It is the home screen on the web workspace and in the mobile app, and you can share a summary to a Slack channel, as a text message, or as a formatted email digest, so it reaches you wherever your morning starts.
Can I ask questions about what I see?
Yes. Each brief has an Ask Kolo box. Ask about any item and Kolo opens a thread with that context already loaded, so you go straight from reading the summary to acting on it.