The real power is in the combinations.

One question. Five tools, one answer.

The work that used to fall on you — pulling up a thread, switching to calendar, jumping to Notion, opening the project folder, scanning past meeting notes, then trying to hold all of it in your head — is the work that ends up not getting done. Not because it is hard. Because the context-switching cost is brutal.

When Presence can reach across all of these in a single thought, the cost drops to zero. You ask the question. Your connectors do their part in parallel. A coherent answer arrives in twenty seconds. The set of things you bother to prepare for triples.

Meeting prep, properly

"Brief me for the 3pm call with Acme." Presence looks up the calendar event, identifies the attendees, finds Gmail threads with those contacts in the last couple of weeks, searches your Notion for the Acme workspace, pulls the project folder from Drive, checks your vault for a previous prep note. It writes a single page: who you are talking to, what the conversation has been about, where you left it, what they care about, what you might want to push for.

Weekly review, on tap

"What did I do this week?" It walks your calendar, your open GitHub issues and pull requests, your sent mail, your vault entries, and your team's Slack channels. Produces a clean weekly review you can edit and send.

Project status, end-to-end

"Where are we on Meridian?" Reads your project folder in the vault, scans recent email threads, pulls the Notion page, checks open GitHub issues, finds related calendar events. Writes a coherent status that includes what is blocked.

Person you have not spoken to in a while

"Catch me up on Maya before I write to her." Memory recalls who Maya is, last email exchange, last meeting, the project you worked on together, any notes you have filed. You write the message with confidence instead of trepidation.

Presence has a set of tools — one per connector, plus reads against your vault and memory. When you ask a question, it plans: which sources are relevant, which to query in parallel, what to do with conflicting information. It chooses, runs the queries, reconciles the results, and writes the answer. The whole process is visible — you can expand "show what it did" to see exactly which sources it touched and what each returned.

Synthesis works best when memory has had time to accumulate. By month one, Presence has enough context that even thin queries pull rich answers. This is the compounding effect of using the product over time. Set the recurring ones up as a workflow and they arrive on their own.

• "Brief me on everything I have on my calendar this week — who is each meeting with and what is it about?"
• "Find me anything I committed to that I have not done yet."
• "Summarise this morning's email and tell me what actually needs me."
• "What did I work on last Tuesday?"
• "Pull together a one-page status for the X project, suitable for sharing."
• "What do I know about the people in the meeting tomorrow morning?"