New to Brief? Your first 24 hours with Brief walks the whole first day, from signing in to a daily brief delivered when and where you want it. This article is the reference for each step.
Signing in
Brief uses your Google or Microsoft account for sign-in. You do not have a separate Brief password.
- Go to app.trybrief.ai.
- Choose Sign in with Google or Sign in with Microsoft.
- Approve the requested permissions when prompted.
If your company restricts third-party apps, that last step can fail with an error from Google or Microsoft rather than from Brief. See If Google blocks your sign-in or If Microsoft blocks your sign-in.
What happens on first sign-in
After you authorize Brief, the system begins an initial sync of the data sources you connect. The first full sync typically takes a few hours, depending on the volume of historical email, calendar, and message content.
Nothing needs you while that runs. It is a good minute to spend seeing where all of it will land — What Brief does covers what it is building, and Where to find everything in Brief maps where it surfaces.
Your first daily briefing
Your first daily briefing email goes out at your next scheduled delivery time, whether or not the initial sync has finished, so a brief that lands in the first few hours can be light. When the first sync finishes, Brief also prepares a first briefing in the app. You can also generate one on demand from the dashboard. The default delivery time is 6:00 AM local time. You can change it under Settings → Briefing & Actions — see Briefing and action settings for that screen, and Tuning your daily brief for making the brief shorter and better timed.
Setting the delivery time is the first of three things worth doing before you go further. Set up your communications connectors walks all three in about ten minutes: the delivery time, WhatsApp on your phone, and the rest of the channels your work runs through.
Inviting teammates
You can invite colleagues from Settings → Plan, in the Invitations group, and each account carries a quota of invitations. See Your plan and invites for sending, tracking, and revoking them. One exception: if your seat is a member seat on someone else's team, you have no Plan section and no invites to spend, because the quota belongs to the person who owns the team. Invited teammates sign in the same way you do, through Google or Microsoft OAuth, and they get their own private Brief account.
When more than one person on your team is using Brief, briefings can reflect shared context for meetings you both attend. Each person's underlying data remains isolated from the other. Shared context is built only from the artifacts each user already has access to in their own source systems.