How do you get your first Brief?

What do you need before you start?

Two things: a workspace and the logins for the tools you already run on. There is nothing to install, no data to migrate, and no agents to configure. YAGNI is additive, so the only decision in front of you is which tools to connect first.

If you have not created a workspace yet, start free. New workspaces come with 20 starter credits, which is enough to connect tools, watch the Teams form, and read your first Briefs before picking a plan.

How do you connect your first tools?

The whole walk, in order:

1. Create your workspace. Sign up and name it. The workspace is the unit everything else lives in: one bill, one shared picture, your whole team.
2. Connect your first tools. Open Connections and start with email and chat. Gmail and Slack carry the most signal about what is actually happening, so the first read is rich. Then add the tools where the work lives: HubSpot, Linear, GitHub, Stripe, Notion, Google Calendar.
3. Let @yagni read. The agent reads across everything you connected and begins forming Teams around the parts of the business it finds. A sales motion in HubSpot and Gmail becomes a Sales Team. Engineering activity in Linear and GitHub becomes an Engineering Team.
4. Read your first Brief. The Front fills in, and @yagni composes the first dated Brief: where each Team stands, what needs you, and what was already handled. Every line cites the rows it came from.
5. Make your first calls. A few items will be waiting, marked amber. Approve them, decline them, or edit the drafts before they ship. These first calls matter more than they look: each one teaches the agent your judgment.

What happens while @yagni reads?

It is building the one memory everything else depends on: who your customers are, what is shipping, which threads are waiting on you, what the numbers look like. Teams appear as the picture sharpens, each with its Responsibilities, the editable statement of what that Team is on the hook for. You can rewrite Responsibilities at any time; the Teams lesson covers how.

Nothing ships during this phase. Reading is reversible, so the agent does it freely. Acting is a separate, gated step.

When does the first Brief arrive?

When there is enough signal to say something useful, which for most workspaces is the same day email and chat are connected. From then on, Briefs land on an editorial cadence: a morning Brief to start the day, and the Front stays current between them. The next lesson is about how to read it well.

What should you do with your first Brief?

Read it to the bottom. Open a citation or two and see that every fact traces to a real row in a real tool. Check the Inbox and notice what was already handled and filed. Then make the few calls that are waiting for you.

That is the entire daily shape of YAGNI: a finite read, a short list of calls that are actually yours, and a bottom you actually reach. When you are ready to direct the agent rather than just read it, move on to Directing @yagni, or book a call and we will walk your workspace with you.