Daily Digest
The five-minute morning read: what got finished yesterday and what it billed, what got paid, work that closed with no invoice raised, quotes that moved, jobs canceled and what the note says, and today schedule with anyone unstaffed. A quiet day gets a three-line digest.
The problem
Every other report answers a question you have to think to ask. This one answers the question you have every morning anyway: what happened, and what is coming.
The alternative is six screens and a guess, which is why most mornings start with neither.
What it gives you
- What got finished yesterday and what it billed, and what got paid.
- Work that closed with no invoice raised, or an invoice raised and never sent - cheap to fix the same day, nearly impossible to spot a month later.
- Quotes that went out and quotes that came back, with an approval that has no job on the calendar flagged as the most time-sensitive row on the page.
- Jobs canceled with the office note quoted - a cancellation with a reason is a rebook, one with silence is a phone call.
- Today schedule: the roster, and any visit with nobody dispatched, which is the common failure because Housecall Pro creates that visit empty.
What you need
| Tier | API Key Required |
|---|---|
| Reads | The MCP |
| Needs | The free MCP plus a Housecall Pro MAX-plan API key you generate. A read-only key is enough. |
| Re-run | Daily, first thing. |
Your first ask
Once it is installed, this is the literal thing you type:
What it cannot do
- It is deliberately short. A quiet day gets a three-line digest, because a digest that manufactures findings on a quiet day trains you to skip it.
- It is a snapshot of what the records say, not an accounting figure - invoices move after the fact.
- It never grades anyone. The weekly and monthly skills do the analysis.
- Requires the MCP (v1.15 or newer) and a MAX-plan API key. A read-only key is enough.
Updates
Every purchase includes all future updates to this skill. Your book decays continuously, so the same job is worth doing again, and each version gets better at it.
The skill checks this site for a newer version when it runs. That request carries the product name and the installed version, and nothing else. There are no account details, no data from your book, no telemetry of any kind. If the check fails for any reason it says nothing and carries on.
Buying it
Sold in the Run the Day pack: $39 one time at half price while the shelf is new for all 3 skills in it. The pack is the unit because a home service company that needs this one usually needs the rest of it the same week. What is in the pack. Lifetime is $149 and covers every pack on the shelf plus every skill added to any of them afterwards.
Questions about whether this fits a particular book go to hello@hcpapi.com , including the question of whether it is worth buying at all.
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