Operations team runs daily data sync
An AI agent pulls reports, updates dashboards, and sends summaries every morning at 8am, without anyone pressing a button.
Work on a Schedule
Your employee runs tasks on daily, weekly, or custom schedules without you being online.
Schedule any task and your employee executes it on autopilot. Set a daily research brief for 7 AM, a weekly analytics summary for Monday morning, and a monthly competitive report for the first of each month. Your employee runs each job on time, saves the output to its Drive, and notifies you when it is done. You wake up to finished work.
Each employee supports multiple independent schedules. Your marketing writer might have a daily social media content batch at 9 AM, a weekly blog draft on Tuesdays, and a bi-weekly newsletter draft on alternating Fridays. All three run independently. If one fails, the others continue. You see the status of every scheduled run in the activity feed.
Schedules are managed through chat. Say "run this research every Monday at 8 AM" and the employee creates the schedule. Say "cancel the weekly report" and it removes it. Say "change the daily brief to 6 AM" and it adjusts. No cron syntax, no scheduling UI. Just tell it what cadence you want.
Scheduled work has the same capabilities as interactive work: full tool access, memory, skills, and delegation. If a scheduled task requires reading from Google Sheets, sending an email through Gmail, and posting to Slack, it does all three. No capability restrictions just because you are not watching.
Run AI Agents on Any Schedule, Automatically
Scheduled Execution lets your AI employees run recurring tasks without a human trigger. Set a daily briefing at 8am, a weekly competitor analysis every Monday, or a custom cron for end-of-month reporting. The agent wakes up, does the work, and saves the output to Drive, all without you opening a browser.
Each scheduled run has full tool access: web search, code execution, file management, connected apps. Your AI agent is not just firing a webhook. It is completing a real workflow, the same way it would if you assigned the task manually.
From One-Off Tasks to Reliable Recurring Workflows
Most autonomous agents handle tasks you explicitly trigger. Scheduled Execution changes that. Define the task once, set the cadence, and your AI employee runs it reliably every cycle without reminders or follow-up.
Outputs land in the employee's Drive, so every scheduled run builds a history you can browse and reference. Week-over-week reports, daily digests, automated audits. The work accumulates. So does the value.
Cron-Level Control With No Engineering Required
Sistava exposes daily, weekly, and fully custom cron syntax so operators can configure complex schedules without writing code. If your team already thinks in cron, it works exactly as expected. If not, the UI makes common patterns one click.
Scheduled tasks run in isolated agent contexts, so a long-running weekly job does not block your employee from handling real-time chat. Agentic AI working on your clock, not just on demand.
Use Cases
Marketing team publishes weekly content
The AI employee queues up social posts, newsletters, and blog updates on a fixed schedule, keeping the pipeline moving automatically.
Finance team automates month-end close
An AI agent kicks off reconciliation, invoice checks, and report generation on the last business day of each month.
Support team handles off-hours follow-ups
The AI employee processes ticket summaries and sends status updates overnight, so the team wakes up to a clean queue.
Comparison
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Someone has to manually trigger recurring tasks every day. | AI agents run on a fixed schedule, zero manual intervention. |
| Workflows slip when the responsible person is out. | Scheduled work runs regardless of who is in the office. |
| Cron jobs require engineering to set up and maintain. | Non-technical teams configure schedules directly in the platform. |
| Off-hours tasks pile up until someone logs in. | The AI employee works nights and weekends on schedule. |
FAQ
Can a scheduled task use the same tools as a manual task?
Yes. Scheduled runs have full access to every tool the AI employee has been assigned, including web search, code execution, and connected apps like Gmail or Notion. There is no reduced capability for automated runs.
Where does the output of a scheduled task go?
Output is automatically saved to the employee's Drive and logged in the Work Journal. You can browse results any time without waiting for the next run.
Can I use custom cron syntax or only preset intervals?
Both. Sistava supports preset options (daily, weekly, monthly) and full cron expression syntax for precise scheduling like every weekday at 7:45am or the first Monday of each month.
What happens if a scheduled task fails?
The failure is logged in the Work Journal with details on what went wrong. You can review the error, adjust the task, and re-trigger manually or wait for the next scheduled run.
Can my AI agent run tasks automatically on a schedule?
Yes, you can configure any AI employee to run on a cron schedule, daily, or weekly cadence without manual triggers. Just define the task and the schedule, and the agent executes it automatically at the right time.
I set up a Monday morning market brief that runs at 7 AM. It pulls live data, writes the summary, and has it in my inbox before I open my laptop. Took five minutes to configure.