How to Set Up an AI-Powered Morning Briefing

One of the most popular OpenClaw use cases: an automatic morning summary. The agent collects tasks, weather, news, calendar and sends a 3-5 minute audio briefing you can listen to over coffee.

What Goes Into a Morning Briefing

1. Today's tasks — from task manager
2. Calendar — meetings and events
3. Weather — local forecast
4. News — by your interests
5. Email highlights — important messages
6. Reminders — deadlines, follow-ups

Technical Setup

Components:

• OpenClaw Gateway
• Task Manager API (Dart, Todoist, etc.)
• Calendar API (Google, Outlook)
• Weather API
• News API (Brave Search)
• Email API (Nylas)
• TTS (ElevenLabs)
• Messaging (Telegram, Signal)

Architecture:

Cron (7:00 AM) → Sub-agent spawn → 
Collect data → Synthesize summary → 
Convert to audio → Send to messenger

Critical: Use Sub-agent

Don't do briefing in heartbeat directly—it will timeout.

Correct approach:

1. Create separate sub-agent for briefing
2. Heartbeat cron only spawns the agent
3. Sub-agent does all the work

TTS Options

Service	Cost	Quality
ElevenLabs	$22/mo	High
OpenAI TTS	Pay-per-use	Good
Piper (local)	Free	Medium
Google TTS	Free tier	Normal

Example Output

"Good morning! Here's your briefing for Tuesday, February 7th.

Weather: 12°C, partly cloudy, no rain expected.

Tasks: You have 5 items on your Marketing board.

Calendar: Team standup at 10 AM, client call at 2 PM.

Email: 3 important messages including a contract.

Have a productive day!"

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Wake up informed, not overwhelmed.