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How do you read the Front?
Published June 9, 2026
The Front is the always-current page of where your business stands, kept ready by @yagni before you open it. A Brief is a dated snapshot of that page. Read top to bottom, follow the citations when you want the source, and act only on the items marked as needing you.
What is the difference between the Front and a Brief?
The Front is a page, a Brief is a snapshot of it.
| Front | Brief | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | The always-current page of where the business stands | A dated snapshot of the Front, composed by @yagni |
| When it changes | Continuously, as the connected tools change | Never. It is the record of that moment |
| What it is for | Opening the workspace and seeing now | Reading the day’s picture, and looking back |
| Where it lives | The masthead home of your workspace | The archive of dated issues |
The distinction matters because it gives you both things you actually want: a live page you can trust at any hour, and a fixed record you can return to. “What did we know on Tuesday” has an answer.
What lands on the Front?
Where each Team stands, what needs you, and what is already handled. The Sales Team reports the pipeline moving and the thread that stalled. The Engineering Team reports what shipped and what is blocked. Items that need a person are marked amber; work the agent already did is marked teal with a receipt.
The page is finite by design. @yagni’s job is editorial: condense everything the tools are saying into a read you can finish. You reach the bottom, and the bottom is the point.
How do you know what needs you?
Amber. Anything marked amber is a call that is actually yours: an approval, a reply only you can write, a decision with real consequence. Everything else is either informational or already handled. The Inbox lesson goes deeper on what the two colors promise, and what they refuse to do (no alarm-red, no manufactured urgency).
Where does each fact come from?
From the rows in your connected tools, and every line says which ones. Open any fact and the citation takes you to the source: the Gmail thread, the HubSpot record, the Linear issue. This is the habit worth building in your first week: follow a few citations until you trust the page. After that, the Front earns the right to be read quickly.
What is the rhythm of reading it?
A Brief lands on an editorial cadence, a morning Brief to start the day, and the Front stays current in between. The practical routine most operators settle into: read the morning Brief to the bottom with coffee, clear the amber items in the Feed, and glance at the Front before meetings, which @yagni has already prepared against your Calendar.
If your mornings currently start with eleven tabs and a guess about what matters, this is the part of YAGNI that replaces the guess. The plans all include it; what scales is how much work the agent carries underneath it.
Common questions
Is the Front a dashboard?
No. A dashboard is a wall of charts you have to interpret. The Front is an edited page: @yagni has already done the reading, organized what matters, and marked the few items that need you. You read it, you do not decode it.
How often does a new Brief come out?
On an editorial cadence: a morning Brief to start the day, with midday and evening Briefs as the workspace warrants. The Front itself stays current between Briefs.
Can I trust what the Front says?
Every fact cites the rows it came from, and any line opens its source. If the Front says a deal stalled, the citation takes you to the thread or the record itself. Nothing asks to be taken on faith.
Does everyone on my team see the same Front?
Yes. Each Team publishes what it finds to everyone's page, so sales sees what engineering is shipping and engineering sees what sales is asking for. One shared picture, no status meeting to sync it.