For work that comes back every week

Say it once.
Give it a repeat.

Work you hand off can run once or on a repeat: every morning, weekdays at 9am, Mondays at 9am, every hour, or every 30 minutes. You choose the repeat at the moment you hand it over — Else never promotes something you typed into a standing job on its own.

Where the week goes

The same four jobs,
every single week.

None of them is hard. All of them are due again on the same day, and all of them have to be started by a human who remembers.

The Monday write-up
Read the same three places, notice what changed, write the same shape of update — then do it again next Monday.
The morning trawl
An hour of skimming before the day starts, to find the four things that actually needed you.
Pulling the numbers again
The same figures from the same sources into the same shape, because the shape is what everyone reads.
“Has anything changed?”
A check that only matters on the day the answer is yes, which is why it keeps getting skipped.
The hand-off, word for word

Write it once,
the way you would brief a stand-in.

A standing job is a briefing, not a reminder — say what to read, what to produce, and what not to do.

Copy this, change the brackets

“Every Monday at 9am: read [these sources], pull [these figures], and write me a short update — what changed since last week’s, anything that looks off, and one paragraph I can paste into our channel. Save it as a file. Don’t post it anywhere — I’ll do that myself.”

Hand that off from the Tasks screen and pick Mondays at 9am from the repeat selector. A recurring run gets the same set of built-in abilities as a one-off, so “read, work it out, write a file” behaves the same way on the tenth Monday as on the first.

What it does, what you get

It runs without you,
and reports back like it did.

The point of a standing job is that you stop being the trigger — not that you stop being in charge.

01 — RUNS
Once, or on your repeat
Just once, every morning, weekdays at 9am, Mondays at 9am, every hour, or every 30 minutes. Those are the choices, and they are the ones in the app.
02 — REPORTS
A status you can read at a glance
A run reads as Making a plan, Working on it, Paused, Needs you, Done or Couldn’t finish. Done and couldn’t-finish never look alike.
03 — STOPS FOR YOU
Nothing leaves without a yes
Publishing or sending asks first, always. An unapproved action in a connected app asks too. While it waits, nothing runs and nothing is charged.
Cost and control

A standing job that
accounts for every run.

Recurring work is where opaque billing does the most damage, so each run is priced and itemized on its own.

Which tier it runs on
Auto · Fast · Smart · Max
Price depends on the tier — Auto, Fast, Smart, or Max. A repeat that runs every 30 minutes and one that runs on Mondays are not the same decision, so pick the tier deliberately — or leave it on Auto and let it choose per request.
The limit is per run
$0.15 by default · up to $5
Every run carries a spend limit — $0.15 by default, and you can set it as high as $5. Reach it and the run pauses and asks you before going on. There is no weekly or monthly ceiling, so with a frequent repeat the per-run limit is the number that matters.
A receipt each time
Total, limit, itemized
Every run produces its own total, its limit and how much was used, and itemized lines. A run that consumed nothing produces no charge and no receipt at all rather than a cosmetic zero.

No monthly retainer price appears on this page because there is not one to quote: a tier carries no fixed price, and what a repeat costs is the sum of its own receipts.

Where it falls short

What it does badly
as a standing job.

Recurring work fails differently from one-off work. These are the ways it does.

A repeat is not a memory
Each run starts from the wording you gave it and whatever it can read at the time. It does not automatically compare this week with last week unless the earlier material is in the files or connected apps it can reach — if you want a comparison, give it somewhere to read the previous one from.
A parked run stays parked
Waiting costs nothing and never times out, which cuts both ways: a Monday run that stopped to ask you something is still stopped on Wednesday, and the following run does not resolve it.
The cap is per run, not per period
There is no monthly budget that halts a repeat once a total is reached. Frequent repeats add up run by run, and it is on you to notice.
A failed run is not quietly made good
Couldn’t finish happens, what already ran is still charged, and the next scheduled run is a fresh run rather than a retry of the broken one.
The spend limit is a brake, not a wall
The spend limit is a brake, not a wall. It is checked between steps, so one long step can finish a little above the number you set before the run pauses. Read it as “stop soon after this”, not “never exceed this”.
It will not chase you
Results wait for you where the run is. Treat a standing job as work that gets done on time, not as an assistant who escalates until you reply.
Fair questions

Asked and answered.

Which repeats can I choose?
When you hand work off you can set it to run just once, every morning, weekdays at 9am, Mondays at 9am, every hour, or every 30 minutes.
Will it decide by itself that something should repeat?
No. A repeat is something you choose when you hand the work over. Typing a sentence starts a conversation; it never turns into a standing job on its own.
Can a scheduled run post to Slack or send an email without me?
Not under the default setting, which checks with you before anything leaves the app. Sending an email always asks, even with the other checks switched off, and an action in a connected app that is not on the approved list needs approval too. A run set to post somewhere will sit waiting for you rather than posting.
What happens if I do not answer a parked run?
It waits. Nothing runs and nothing is charged while a run is parked, and a parked question does not expire — so a Monday run can still be waiting on Wednesday, and the next repeat does not answer it for you.
Does each run have its own spend limit?
Yes, and that is the important detail: the limit is per run, not per week or per month. It is $0.15 by default and can be set as high as $5. In Settings you can also choose the amount above which a task should check with you: $0.10, $0.50, $1.00 or $5.00.
Other kinds of work

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