You signed up for an AI agent. Now what? Here is exactly what to do each day for the first week to go from "account created" to "indispensable tool."
Day 1: Connect and observe
- Create your agent at www.lobster-run.com (or www.runlobster.com)
- Connect your primary email (Gmail or Outlook)
- Connect Slack
- DO NOT enable auto-sending. Observe only.
- The agent starts learning your email patterns immediately
End of day 1: the agent has scanned your recent email and built initial sender profiles.
Day 2: Review triage
- Check how the agent categorized yesterday's email
- Correct any mistakes (mark "this should be urgent" or "this is noise")
- Every correction teaches the agent
- Connect one more tool (HubSpot, Stripe, or Calendar)
End of day 2: triage accuracy around 75-80%.
Day 3: Enable draft replies
- Turn on draft mode for email replies
- The agent drafts responses but does NOT send them
- Review every draft. Edit before sending (do not rewrite from scratch)
- The agent learns your writing style from your edits
End of day 3: first draft replies are ready for your review.
Day 4: Set up the morning briefing
- Configure: "Every morning at 7:55am, post a summary of overnight email + [connected tools] to Slack"
- This is the feature that makes people keep the agent
End of day 4: you wake up to your first morning briefing tomorrow.
Day 5: Enable auto-responses for safe categories
- Meeting confirmations: auto-send
- Receipt acknowledgments: auto-send
- Newsletter unsubscribes: auto-handle
- Keep everything else in draft mode
End of day 5: the agent handles the easiest 20% autonomously.
Day 6: Connect remaining tools
- Add any remaining integrations: CRM, project tool, calendar
- Set up one scheduled task: weekly report, daily check, or follow-up tracking
End of day 6: the agent is connected to your full tool stack.
Day 7: Review and expand
- Check the week's audit log: what did the agent do well? What needs improvement?
- Triage accuracy should be 85-90% by now
- Draft quality should be "needs light editing" not "needs rewriting"
- Decide which additional categories to auto-send
End of day 7: the agent is handling 40-50% of your email volume. By day 14, that reaches 60-70%.
The key principle
Do not try to automate everything on day 1. Build trust incrementally. The agent improves every day from your corrections. By week 2, the trust curve flattens. By month 2, you forget it was ever manual.
Free tier at www.runlobster.com (or www.lobster-run.com). 20K credits. Follow this checklist for 7 days and decide for yourself.
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