Hire a Chief of Staff who keeps important work moving.
Tracks priorities, prepares briefings, follows up with owners, and keeps important work moving. It works from its own address and number, so the people it contacts know they are hearing from your assistant. You approve; it records.
Available now·Recommended plan: Essentials·Free to start
Keeps important work moving.
Written as finished work, not features. Each one says which plan it needs.
Delivers a morning brief: inbox, calendar, and everything it handled overnight.
Runs a multi-week plan, like onboarding a new client or chasing a stalled deal, across channels without losing the thread.
Follows up with the owner of an overdue item from its own address, with you CC’d.
Keeps a priorities list current from chat and forwarded email, and tells you what needs a decision.
Prepares a briefing before a meeting from prior threads and notes, then sends the notes after.
Writes the weekly status for an engineering team, with citations to Slack, GitHub, Linear and Jira.
Who hires a Chief of Staff
- A founder running a company from an inbox, with a dozen open loops and nobody chasing them.
- An operator who needs a Friday summary of what moved, what stalled, and who owes what.
- An engineering lead who owes leadership a weekly status and writes it from memory on Sunday night.
Its tools and channels
The real app, doing a Chief of Staff’s job.
What it did, what it held for you, and when it asked. Every action is in your record, with the reason for each call.
The morning brief: what it handled overnight and the three decisions that need you.Atona for iOS · example data
After a meeting it joined: summary, action items and decisions, sent to the room.Atona for iOS · example data
Delegate, approve, review
With you
- A morning brief every day and a Friday summary of what moved and what didn’t.
- It asks before committing you to anything new. Standing rules are taught once and kept.
- Forward an email or say it in chat; it turns either into a tracked item with an owner.
With other Atona employees
- Every Atona employee shares one memory, so a second hire starts with everything the first one knows.
- Scheduling and travel belong to an Executive Assistant; hiring priorities go to a Recruiter.
Default controls for this role. Drafts first for new contacts. Sends follow-ups to known contacts from its own address when confident. Holds anything financial, medical or legal. The people it contacts know they are hearing from your assistant, because it writes from its own address and number.
You approve. It records.
Drafts first, then sends
From your own inbox, nothing goes out until you approve it. From its own address it sends when confident and holds the draft when it isn’t.
Its own identity, never yours
A dedicated email address, phone number and WhatsApp, separate from your personal ones. You are CC’d on every message.
Some mail never reaches AI
Anything that looks financial, medical or legal is recognised and held back before it can be sent for processing.
One switch pauses everything
Pause all activity with one toggle, or turn email, texts and calls on and off channel by channel.
A record of every action
Every reply drafted, sent or held is there to review, with the reason it made that call, and a weekly account of time saved.
Every plan works. Essentials is the one we’d pick.
Plans set capacity, not the role. We recommend Essentials for a Chief of Staff so it can follow up with people from its own address, in its own name.
The brief, triage and a priorities list from one inbox. Enough to see how it thinks.
Its own address, so follow-ups go out in its name with you CC’d. The Chief of Staff’s core tool.
Adds meeting notes to the brief and a phone number for the calls it makes on your behalf.
Five inboxes and the most research, for an operator running several ventures.
Founders’ pricing through September 30. The discount is already applied.
How each part works
Also hiring: Executive Assistant · Personal Assistant · Recruiter
Before you hire
Does it send email as me?
From your own inbox, only after you approve. From its own @assistant.atona.ai address, it sends when it is confident and holds the draft when it is not. You are CC’d on everything it sends.
What does “keeps work moving” actually mean?
It holds a plan over days: who owes what, when it was promised, and what happens next. It chases, waits, or asks you, and every step is in your record.
Can it run a team’s weekly status?
Yes, in a team workspace that reads Slack, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Drive and Notion. Team workspaces are set up with us; book a demo from the Teams page.
Which plan do I need?
Start free. Essentials gives it its own address so follow-ups go out in its name. Standard adds meeting notes and a phone number.
Hire your Chief of Staff today.
Free to start. Working within ten minutes, with a record of every action.
Android coming soon.