By hand Read each thread to find the one date that changed.
With Phronode The mail is read. What moves the plan is flagged.
Phronode
Intelligence as a system.
The plan, the inbox, and the update, run as one system. Phronode reads the messages that change the work, keeps the plan current, and drafts the status your colleagues or clients are waiting on.
The desk work
Hours go to mail and status, not the plan.
Phronode is for operations, delivery, account, and project teams that already know the work — and still rebuild the story of it every day.
By hand
With Phronode
By hand Rebuild the week after the inbox moves a commitment.
With Phronode The plan updates when the message does.
By hand Write the same client or leadership update again.
With Phronode The update is drafted in your format, on your schedule.
The product
A plan, then the update.
The plan holds the week. Automation reads the inbox and writes the note that used to take the afternoon.
01 — Planning tools
The week, with owners and dates.
- 01 A shared plan for the work in flight.
- 02 Each change stays attached to the item it affects.
- 03 The team looks at one plan, not five versions in mail.
02 — Automation
Mail in. Update out.
- 01 Reads the inbox you connect.
- 02 Marks the messages that change a date, owner, or decision.
- 03 Drafts the client note, standup, or leadership brief.
Updates are drafted for approval. Phronode does not send them on its own unless your team turns that on.
Try it
Five threads. One minute.
Decide what each thread is, not what to write. Click an action, or use the keys R, W, P, S and E.
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01 · Capture
Mail comes in as input
Client threads arrive from the mailbox you already use. Newsletters and receipts stay out of the way.
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02 · Triage
One key per thread
Needs reply, waiting, plan it, snooze or done, with a suggestion you can take or ignore.
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03 · Decide
A thread becomes an item
Outcome, owner, due date and next step, pulled from the mail and linked back to it.
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04 · Schedule
Dropped into the week
Goals on top, commitments by day, deadlines marked. On Friday you carry over or let go.
A Tuesday
From the inbox to a note you can send.
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A client moves the review.
The mail lands in the inbox Phronode is allowed to read.
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The plan shifts to Thursday.
The review item moves. The rest of the week stays put.
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The update is ready.
A short note, in your format, waiting for someone on the team to approve it.
Principles
What Phronode is not.
Not another inbox.
You keep reading and replying where you do today. Phronode is where you decide, so it shows decisions, not messages.
Not a project suite.
No boards to configure, no fields to maintain. A week, a few goals and the commitments under them.
No urgency theatre.
No badges, streaks or “you’re falling behind”. Real deadlines are marked; everything else waits calmly.
How you buy it
One setup fee. Then monthly.
There is no checkout on this page. Join the waitlist, and we confirm the fee before any setup starts. Joining costs nothing.
Step 1
Join the waitlist
Tell us the company and where to write. We open setup in small groups.
Step 2
Pay the setup fee
Once, when onboarding starts. We connect mail, build the first plan, and write your update templates.
Step 3
Subscribe monthly
The subscription covers the planning workspace, email reading, and scheduled updates.
- Setup fee
- Once
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Amount confirmed before you start.
- Mail connection and permissions
- The first shared plan
- Update templates in your format
- A working session with your team
- Subscription
- Monthly
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Billed while Phronode is in use.
- Planning workspace for the team
- Reading mail against the plan
- Drafted updates on your schedule
- Approval before anything is sent
- To join the waitlist
- Nothing
- We write when a setup slot opens. You decide then.
Questions
Before you join.
Who is Phronode for?
Companies that plan client or internal work and report on it. Typical teams are operations, delivery, account management, and project leads.
What does the setup fee cover?
A one-time onboarding: connecting the mailbox, setting up the plan, and writing the first update templates with your team. The amount is confirmed before that work starts.
What does the monthly subscription cover?
Ongoing use of the planning workspace, email reading, and scheduled updates. It starts once Phronode is running, and it continues while you keep it.
Will it email clients without us?
No. Phronode drafts the update and waits for approval. Automatic sending is a switch your team can turn on later.
What happens after I join the waitlist?
We keep your email and company, then write when a setup slot opens. There is no charge, and no subscription, until you accept that slot.
Waitlist
Leave Monday morning with a plan.
We onboard a few companies at a time, so every early workspace gets set up properly. Say what you want first, and we will write when there is room.