An AI agent that’s reachable around the clock
OperatorNest is an always-on AI agent. Send it a task at 11 p.m. on a Sunday and it starts at 11 p.m., whether or not a chat window is open. Work also starts from a schedule, a watch condition or a task you handed it earlier, and it keeps going after you close the tab.
What “always-on” means, honestly
“Always-on” doesn’t mean your operator is thinking about you every second. It means three things:
- It’s reachable any time, from any channel you’ve connected, and starts on a new task within moments of getting it.
- It runs scheduled and background work on its own, without you there to re-trigger it.
- Results and decisions wait in your channel until you check in.
It never goes to sleep, and it never invents work on its own initiative. It acts on triggers: something you asked for, a time you set, or a condition you defined.
Three ways work starts without you
A schedule. For example, a Monday 7 a.m. competitor brief, or a Friday afternoon summary of what shipped that week. You set the cadence once and it runs from then on. See recurring tasks for how schedules work.
A watch. You define a condition and your operator checks it in the background: a flight price drops below a number, a specific sender emails you, a document changes. When it fires, a task starts.
A task that outlives your chat. You ask for something that takes longer than a few minutes, like comparing twelve vendors or drafting a full trip itinerary. You close the chat, the task keeps running, and your operator reports back when it’s done. See background tasks for that flow.
Reachable from wherever you already are
You can send a task from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage, email or the web, and your operator answers in that same channel, whatever triggered the underlying work. If a scheduled brief finishes while you’re mid-conversation in Slack, it shows up there. If you originally asked by email, the result comes back by email.
You keep using the channels you already check during the day, with no new app to open for a status update.
Where the work runs
Each task runs in your operator’s own cloud workspace, separate from your device and from any chat thread. That workspace has a real browser for looking things up, comparing options and filling in forms, plus the files and tools you’ve connected for that operator. Your laptop can go to sleep and the task keeps running.
If you run more than one operator, for example one for research and one for your inbox, each keeps its own workspace, memory and permissions, and they run in parallel. See multiple operators.
What you see when you check in
When you come back, an hour later or the next morning, you get a plain account of what finished, what’s waiting on your approval and what’s still in progress. For example:
Overnight: pulled 14 mentions of your product from the last 24 hours, drafted replies to 3, and held 1 refund request for your approval.
Nothing that sends, pays, books, deletes or publishes happens without your sign-off; see approvals for exactly what waits. Everything that ran, and why, is logged; see receipts.
Always-on, still in control
Every task your operator runs while you’re away is recorded in the same detail as one you watched live: what it read, what it decided, what it drafted, and what it’s waiting on you for. You can pause a schedule, cancel a watch or stop a running task at any point, and nothing continues once you do.