A coworker who only ever talks when you talk to them is a tool, not a colleague. With Heartbeat, every employee wakes up on its own schedule, looks at what it is supposed to be watching, and tells you only when something is actually worth your attention.
Nobody asked. Nobody clicked. The work is done anyway.
Scheduled tasks have existed for years. They do exactly what you told them, at the time you said. Heartbeat is the opposite: it hands the agent the opportunity to look, and lets the agent decide whether anything deserves your time.
Fires the instruction you wrote, every time.
Looks, judges, and speaks only when it counts.
Every tick ends in exactly one of two ways. That constraint is what keeps a proactive agent from becoming noise.
Every hour, or every 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, or off entirely. You also set active hours and a timezone, so nothing pings you at 3am.
On each tick the employee reads its own brief, checks whatever it is watching, and decides. No fixed script, just its judgement against your rules.
Nothing to report and it stays silent, invisibly. Something to report and you get a compact notice in the chat, or in Slack or email if you prefer.
A heartbeat without context is noise. So each employee gets a brief, and it writes that brief with you rather than handing you a template.
Click once and the employee reads its own configuration, queries its memory, looks over your recent history, then asks you three to five targeted questions. Ninety seconds later the brief is written, in your language.
None of these require you to ask. The employee is simply paying attention.
Every 2 hours, every 12, or whatever suits the role. Set the active hours and your timezone.
The employee interviews you and writes its own brief from your answers.
It watches quietly, and speaks up the day it should.
Give your team employees that notice things, and have the judgement to stay quiet the rest of the time.
