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Use Cases

Founders

For CEOs, COOs, founders, heads-of, and execs — people whose day spans pipeline, product, hiring, fundraising, and board prep, often before noon. Deck takes the "hold all of this in my head at once" part off your plate.

If your day looks like this​

  • You context-switch between five different functions every day.
  • Critical context lives in your inbox, your DMs, your meeting notes, and three other tools.
  • You write investor updates, board memos, all-hands material, and offer letters out of the same head.
  • You wish your week opened with a brief and closed with a wrap-up — without you having to write them.

Think of Deck as a chief of staff who's always on — one you can ping for context on the walk into a board call, ask for the last six months of a partner's thread before a coffee, or leave watching hiring pipelines and customer threads while you're heads-down on the product. Every part of the business is a one-line email away.

Set up first​

  1. Five projects to start: Brain (you, your style, priorities), Pipeline (revenue), Product (roadmap & feedback), Fundraising (investors & materials), Hiring (open roles & candidates).
  2. Forward by default — start CC'ing your assistant on customer threads, investor threads, and key internal decisions.
  3. Two scheduled tasks: a 7 AM weekday brief that draws from all five projects, and a Friday 4 PM wrap.

Use cases worth setting up​

A morning brief that spans every function​

A daily scheduled task: "summarize overnight changes across Pipeline, Product, Fundraising, and Hiring. List my three highest-leverage focus areas for today. Bullets only."

Lands in your inbox at 7. By 7:05 you know what to spend the day on. See Create a task.

Investor update drafting​

Forward Deck the previous month's investor email. Drop in this month's metrics. Ask: "draft the next update in the same voice — flag what's worth pulling forward, what to leave out."

The output is a starting point you edit, not a finished thing — and it's better when Deck has read every prior update.

Board prep​

CC your assistant on every board-related thread. The week of the meeting, ask: "what's changed since the last board deck? List the questions our directors are likely to push on."

Pair this with Vigil and you'll be told without asking.

Hiring pipeline at a glance​

Forward candidate emails, interview debriefs, and offer threads into a Hiring project. Ask: "who's at the offer stage? Who's gone quiet? What's the average time-to-offer for the engineering loop?"

Same machinery that finance teams use for deal pipelines — applied to people.

Personal CRM for your network​

CC your assistant on threads with investors, mentors, and operator friends. Once a quarter: "who haven't I heard from in 90 days that I should reach out to?"

A founder's network atrophies without intentional upkeep. Deck makes the upkeep low-effort.

Daily brief over email​

You can delegate your assistant address as the recipient for status pages, Vercel deploys, AWS billing, Linear digests, GitHub notifications. Now "what's broken? what shipped?" is something you can ask with one sentence.

What good looks like after two weeks​

  • You start every morning with a brief that touches every part of the business.
  • You stop forgetting follow-ups — Deck reminds you, or Vigil does.
  • The investor update for next month is half-written before you sit down to write it.
  • Friday afternoon ends with a wrap-up email you read on the way home.