Agents that work while you sleep

This is where it gets exciting for a solopreneur. Instead of you starting Claude every time, you can set it up to run on its own schedule — every morning, every few hours, every Monday. Like an employee who clocks in without being told.

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What it is

A scheduled agent (Claude calls this Cowork) is just Claude with a job and a time. You set it up once: “Every weekday at 8am, gather yesterday’s sign-ups and send me a summary.” From then on, it does it. Forever. Without you.

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Why this is a big deal when you’re solo

You can’t be everywhere. A scheduled agent is the closest thing to cloning yourself:

• A morning brief waiting when you wake up.
• Outreach drafted and queued before you sit down.
• A weekly report that just appears.

Work that used to eat your mornings now happens while you sleep.

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The catch — and why Orbit fixes it

Here’s the problem with an assistant that works while you’re away: how do you know it actually did its job? If you can’t see it, you can’t trust it. This is the single biggest reason to connect Orbit. With it, every scheduled run:

• Checks in so you know it ran.
• Saves its work to your Vault — the summary, the report, the leads.
• Shows up in your morning Briefing — one tidy card per agent, with what it did and a link to everything it made.
• Follows your rules, even unattended.

Without Orbit, a scheduled agent is a black box you just have to hope is working. With Orbit, it’s an employee who leaves a clear report on your desk every time.

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Keep the cost sensible

Since these run over and over, use a cheaper, faster model for simple jobs (see Which Claude to use). A daily summary doesn’t need the expensive expert model.