Nerve for chief of staff
An AI agent team built around how a Chief of Staff actually works.
Pipeline state, meeting prep, executive follow-throughs, the briefing that covers your principal's day. Nerve runs the work, you run the call on the work.
The problem
Why this is broken today
The Chief of Staff role is the connective tissue between the CEO's intent and the org's execution. The work that lands on your plate is exactly the work that doesn't fit on anyone else's. Board updates, investor pings, the deal that needs an exec push, the customer that needs a CEO touch, the followup the principal forgot about three Tuesdays ago.
You can hold it together for a quarter, maybe two, on raw memory and a shared doc. Then the system buckles. The principal asks about a thread you closed last month and you have to dig for it. The investor whose introduction was supposed to land never landed. The hire who started six weeks ago has been doing the wrong thing because the kickoff slipped.
The standard CoS playbook says: better notes, weekly 1:1, cleaner CRM. Fine. None of it survives the week your principal triple-books themselves and you become the throat that gets choked.
What Nerve does
What changes when an agent team is in the loop
An agent team that closes principal-side loops
Drafting the followup to the investor, prepping the meeting, logging the follow-up you owe the customer, surfacing the deal that has gone quiet. Each agent owns a domain and finishes the work, not just surfaces it. You stay focused on the judgment calls only you can make.
Briefings built from the inboxes you run
If you manage your principal's email and calendar, connect them alongside your own. The morning briefing then covers both: open threads with people they care about, decisions waiting, commitments at risk.
Loops that close without a quarterback
Nerve tracks the follow-ups you owe, flags relationships going quiet, and drafts the next email, so loops keep closing on the days you're pulled into something else.
Built by an operator who's done the role
Nerve was built by an operator who has done chief of staff work for other founders and knows what it's like to be the throat that gets choked. Every feature exists because the alternative was dropping a ball at 11pm. If it doesn't help a real Chief of Staff, it doesn't ship.
How it works
Three steps to the agent team running
Plug Nerve into your principal's inputs
Gmail or Outlook, your calendar, Slack, HubSpot, and Google Drive. Nerve works from who emails your principal and which threads are waiting on a reply.
One daily briefing across the inboxes you run
Connect your principal's accounts with your own and one briefing ranks what needs a decision across both.
Approve drafts, route handoffs, run the day
Through the day the agents propose actions: drafted emails to send, followup nudges, calendar holds. You approve in one click. The system holds when your attention can't.
FAQ
Common questions
Is this just an AI assistant?
No. Assistants surface drafts and wait for you. Nerve is an agent team that proposes completed work and routes handoffs between domains. The deliverable is closed loops, not summaries.
How does it interact with my principal?
Behind the scenes: the agents draft and prepare on your behalf, you approve, and your principal sees only the finished work. If your principal wants their own briefing, they can have their own Nerve account; accounts aren't linked today.
Will it replace me?
No. The agent team does the closing-out work that eats most of your week today. What's left (the judgment, the relationships, the politics, the unwritten decisions) is exactly what an agent team can't do. You get more leverage on the part of the job that actually requires you.
What about confidentiality?
Everything you connect stays in your account, isn't pooled with other customers, and Nerve never trains AI on it.
How long to set up?
Connecting Google takes a few clicks, and the first briefing starts right after. Drafts get closer to your voice as you edit them.
Workflows and guides
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