# Your Employee Wakes When You Say Hello

Improvement · 2026-05-28

## Details

A freshly hired employee used to start its background check-ins immediately, even if you never opened the chat. Now it begins asleep and wakes the instant you first reach out or put work on its board. No first message, no work, no wasted cycles.

Once awake it follows a natural rhythm. It checks in roughly hourly while you are active and there is momentum, then stretches the gap out (every few hours, then daily) as things go quiet, so it is never busy just to look busy. If a long stretch passes with an empty board and no sign of you, it rests instead of spinning in place. As long as there is real work to do it keeps going, no matter how long you have been away.

Coming back is effortless. A single hello, even months later, brings your employee fully back to life, fresh like its first day, and the rhythm starts over.

## What changed

- Employees start asleep and wake on your first message or task
- Cadence adapts: frequent when active, slower when quiet
- Rests only after a long stretch with genuinely no work
- Never rests while real work is on the board
- A later hello revives it to day-one responsiveness