Find the right workflow
Not sure where to start? Pick what sounds most like your day.| I want to… | Try this |
|---|---|
| Start my day organized | Morning Briefing |
| Get through email faster | Inbox Triage |
| Catch up on messages | Reply to Messages |
| Walk into meetings prepared | Meeting Prep or Meeting Research |
| See where my week went | Weekly Review |
| Find and cancel forgotten subscriptions | Subscription Audit |
| Find leads or customers | Sales Prospecting |
| Hire someone | Recruiting Pipeline |
| Research investors or companies | Investor Research |
| Find a job | Job Search |
Daily essentials
These are the workflows most people run every day. If you’re new to Runner, start here.Morning Briefing
Your daily chief-of-staff rundown. Runner checks your calendar, scans your inbox, and tells you what needs your attention right now. Schedule conflicts, emails that need a reply, deadlines approaching today. All in one scannable brief you can read in 90 seconds. Needs:
What you get:
- Annotated schedule with prep notes for each meeting
- Inbox triage sorted by urgency
- Open blocks flagged with suggestions
- One-line strategic advice to set the tone for your day
“Give me my morning briefing.”The best part: Runner doesn’t just relay your calendar. It connects the dots. Meeting about Project X at 2pm plus an email thread about Project X from last night? Runner tells you to read the email first.
Inbox Triage
Runner scans your inbox from the last 7 days, classifies every email, drafts replies for what matters, and archives the noise. You end up with a short action list you can clear in under 2 minutes. Needs:
What you get:
- Quick-send drafts you can fire off without reading
- Longer drafts for emails that need your input, with effort estimates
- A “waiting on” list showing sent emails with no reply
- Unsubscribe candidates with email counts per sender
“Triage my inbox.”Runner archives notifications and marketing emails automatically. Everything it archives stays in All Mail, so nothing is permanently lost. Your inbox should only contain things that actually need you when it’s done.
Reply to Messages
Scans iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and LinkedIn for messages you haven’t replied to. Creates draft reply cards for each one. Review, tweak, send. Inbox zero across all your messaging apps. Needs:
WhatsApp, Telegram (also works with 
iMessage and LinkedIn if connected)
What you get:
- Draft replies for every unreplied message across platforms
- A summary table showing who’s waiting and what they need
- Skipped group chats and bots so you’re not drowning in noise
“Reply to my messages.”Nothing goes out without your approval. Every reply is a draft card you review first.
Calendar and meetings
Meeting Prep
Pulls your next meeting from Google Calendar, researches every attendee, and surfaces recent email threads related to the discussion. Builds a one-page briefing you can scan in 60 seconds before walking in. Needs:
What you get:
- Who’s in the room, their titles, and last time you interacted
- What the meeting is probably about based on email context
- Open commitments (“You told James you’d review the proposal by Friday. You haven’t yet.”)
- Talking points with reasoning
“Prep me for my next meeting.”The highest-value thing this does: carrying forward commitments. If you promised something to someone in this meeting and haven’t delivered, Runner tells you before they do.
Meeting Research
Deep research brief before any meeting. Looks up the company, researches every attendee’s background, checks your email history with them, and surfaces talking points. Walk in knowing more than the person across the table. Needs: (for email history lookup)
What you get:
- Company profile: what they do, funding, headcount, growth
- Person profile: career arc, education, connection points
- Your history: prior emails, meetings, mutual contacts
- Talking points and things to watch out for
“Research Charlie Feng, CEO at Agora. We’re meeting tomorrow about a partnership.”This goes beyond what a Google search gives you. Runner finds the narrative. “She left Google’s AI team to join a 10-person startup. She’s a builder, not a coaster.” That’s the kind of context that changes how you walk into a room.
Productivity
Weekly Review
Reviews your past week across calendar, email, and meeting notes to show where your time actually went. Surfaces open loops you’ve forgotten about and helps you set priorities for next week. Needs:
What you get:
- Time audit showing hours in meetings vs. deep work vs. admin
- Open loops: things you committed to that aren’t done, and things others owe you
- Next week’s top 3 priorities based on what’s actually on your plate
- A direct “coach’s note” calling out patterns (“You spent 28 hours in meetings and had zero deep work blocks. That’s not a CEO schedule.”)
“Run my weekly review.”The open loops section alone justifies this workflow. Surfacing forgotten commitments prevents the kind of trust erosion that happens when things slip through the cracks.
Subscription Audit
Searches your email for recurring payment receipts to build a complete list of everything you’re paying for. Shows you the total monthly and annual spend. Flags subscriptions you might have forgotten about. Needs:
What you get:
- Complete subscription table with costs, frequency, and last charge date
- Monthly and annual totals broken down by category
- Flagged subscriptions that look forgotten or duplicated
- Help canceling anything you want to cut
“Audit my subscriptions.”The average person wastes around 312/month across 18 subscriptions” hits different than checking each one individually.
Clean My Computer
Scans your Mac for junk files, stale caches, old logs, and unused build artifacts eating up disk space. Shows you exactly what it found with sizes before touching anything. Moves items to a staging folder so you can recover if needed. What you get:- A clear table of what’s taking up space, sorted by size
- Safety ratings for each category (safe to clean vs. needs review)
- A staging step so nothing is permanently deleted without your say-so
- Before/after disk usage comparison
“Clean my computer.”Runner never runs
sudo rm. Everything goes to a staging folder first. You review, then confirm. If you change your mind, it puts everything back.
Sales and outreach
Sales Prospecting
Builds a targeted outreach list from scratch. Finds companies matching your ideal customer profile, identifies the decision-makers, gets verified contact info, and drafts personalized cold emails. Hours of SDR research compressed into minutes. What you get:- Company list matching your ICP with headcount, funding stage, and what they build
- Decision-maker contacts with verified emails
- Personalized draft emails referencing something specific about each company
- Everything saved to your workspace CRM automatically
“Find Series A fintech companies in the Bay Area with 50-200 employees. I want to reach their VP of Sales.”The difference between this and a generic email blast: Runner researches each company before drafting. “Your expansion into embedded payments after the Series B suggests you’re hitting scale” lands differently than “I saw you recently raised.”
Email List Hygiene
Validates a list of email addresses before you send. Checks every address for deliverability, catches bouncing addresses, and flags disposable or catch-all domains. Protects your sender reputation from bad data. What you get:- Valid/risky/invalid breakdown for every address
- Deliverability scores and provider detection
- Role-based address flags (info@, sales@) that tend to have lower engagement
- Clean list export ready to use
“Validate these 50 email addresses before I send my campaign.”You can paste emails directly, share a CSV, or have Runner pull from your recent Gmail contacts.
Recruiting Pipeline
Source candidates without LinkedIn Recruiter. Finds professionals matching your hiring criteria, pulls their full backgrounds, gets verified contact info, and drafts personalized outreach. Works for founders hiring their first engineer or recruiters building a pipeline. What you get:- Candidate shortlist with clickable LinkedIn profiles
- Deep research summaries: career arc, skills, signals of openness
- Verified personal email addresses (not work inbox)
- Draft outreach messages written in founder-voice, not recruiter-voice
- Candidates saved to your CRM
“Find Senior Backend Engineers with 5+ years, ideally from YC-backed companies. We’re a Series A healthtech startup.”The outreach matters. “We’re building X and I think your background in Y is exactly what we need” gets replies. “We have an exciting opportunity” doesn’t.
Research
Investor Research
Deep-dive on the funding landscape for your space. Finds companies matching your investment thesis, maps funding history and leadership teams, and identifies which VCs are active in the sector. What you get:- Market map of companies matching your criteria
- Founder profiles with career arcs and patterns
- VC activity: who’s betting here, how aggressively, any notable absences
- A synthesized deal brief with non-obvious observations
- Companies and investors saved to your CRM
“Map AI infrastructure companies, Seed to Series A, founded after 2022. Which VCs are most active?”Runner pattern-matches across founders: “3 of the 5 strongest companies have ex-Stripe infrastructure engineers as founders.” That’s the kind of insight that takes hours to spot manually.
Job Search
Finds open roles matching what you’re looking for, researches the companies behind them, and identifies the hiring managers so you can reach out directly instead of disappearing into an ATS. What you get:- Open roles matching your criteria with salary ranges and posting dates
- Company briefs: funding, growth signals, culture, red flags
- Hiring manager profiles with verified email addresses
- Draft intro messages (not job applications, warm introductions)
- Jobs and contacts saved to your CRM
“Find Senior Product Manager roles at remote-friendly health-tech companies, 100-500 employees, Series A or B.”The whole point: bypassing the ATS. A warm email to a hiring manager is 10x more effective than clicking “Easy Apply.”
Other workflows
Order Lunch
Opens Uber Eats (or DoorDash, or Grubhub) in the browser, helps you pick a restaurant, builds your order, and gets everything into your cart ready for checkout. You review and confirm the purchase yourself. What you get:- Restaurant suggestions based on what you’re craving
- Menu browsed and presented in a scannable format
- Items added to cart with customizations confirmed
- Final order summary with delivery time and fees
“Order me lunch. I’m in the mood for Thai.”Runner never clicks “Place Order” or enters payment information. Your cart is ready, you do the final checkout.
Create a Workflow
Helps you build a new reusable workflow from scratch, or turn a conversation you just had into something you can run again. Runner asks you what you want, figures out which apps are involved, and writes the workflow for you.“Turn this into a workflow.”
“Build me a workflow that checks my CRM deals every Monday and flags anything stale.”You can also extract patterns from conversations. If you just did something useful and want to make it repeatable, tell Runner to save it as a workflow.
Analyze Writing Style
Samples your recent sent messages on a platform (Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, etc.) and saves a communication style profile so Runner can draft messages that sound like you.“Analyze my Gmail writing style.”Runner reads about 15-20 of your recent sent messages, identifies your patterns (tone, greeting style, sentence length, emoji usage, formality level), and saves the profile. After this, drafts on that platform match how you actually write.
Memory Review
Reviews your recent sessions across all workspaces and extracts durable learnings: corrections you’ve made, preferences you’ve expressed, context that matters. Merges signal into existing memory so Runner keeps getting better.“Review my memory.”This is housekeeping for Runner’s brain. It consolidates what it’s learned from your conversations, removes duplicates, and makes sure nothing important slips through the cracks. Runs automatically on a schedule, or you can trigger it manually.