AI agent for client reports
The client report gets written on the last evening of the period, and it is almost always shorter than the work it describes. The agent takes the assembling: it pulls together what was done, what it produced and what happens next, lays it out in the format you already report in, and keeps a source behind every figure. What it means for the client, and how to say the part they won't like, stays with you.
What a client-reporting agent does
- Pulls together everything done for the client in the period from where the work is already recorded: tasks, documents, threads, the schedule.
- Drafts it in the client's language, without the internal shorthand and process names that mean nothing to them.
- Shows the movement rather than just today's figure: what it was, what it is now.
- Builds the what-happens-next section: what's in progress, what's waiting on them, which dates are close.
- Keeps the source behind every figure, so «where does this come from» costs a minute instead of an evening.
Processes that run themselves
A playbook isn't a button — it's a process with a condition that starts it. These three get set up most often.
The reporting period closes
The month closes for a client
- Gather what was done in the period and hold it against what was promised at the start of it
- Compare it with the previous period and write down what moved
- Draft it in your format: what was done, what it produced, what happens next
- Hand it over with the space left empty where your read is needed
A client asks how things are going
A client writes mid-period asking about progress
- Pull up what's been done since the last report and where things stand now
- Draft a short answer out of facts — no dates and no promises you didn't make
- Hand it to you to send if the period holds anything they won't like
A result worth telling them about
A figure for the client crosses a mark you agreed to report on
- Check the number against its source before it is mentioned at all
- Draft the short version: what changed, from what value, over what stretch
- Attach the part of the plan of work this touches
- Leave you the decision of whether it goes out now, and in what tone
Where the agent stops
- It doesn't decide how bad news is delivered: a missed deadline, a mistake, a dip is a conversation about the relationship, not a line in a report. It records the fact; you choose the framing.
- It doesn't soften a figure or round it up so the report reads better: a weak period looks weak.
- A figure without a traceable source doesn't appear at all — a gap stands where it would have been, not a plausible estimate.
- Anything that changes what the client is charged — extra hours, overruns, discounts, revised terms — is never written or promised by the agent. That decision and that conversation are yours.
FAQ
Will it tell the client we missed a deadline?
No. It records the fact: what isn't done, against which date, what got in the way and when it lands. What comes after that is the part the client pays you for — how to say it: by email or on a call, with an apology or with a plan, today or alongside the fix. That framing is chosen by the person who has the relationship.
What if the period was a weak one?
Then it looks weak in the report. The agent won't round an inconvenient figure, drop a line, or reorder sections so the bad part sinks to the bottom. A softened report buys one calm month and is paid for by the next, when the client compares what you wrote with what they can see at their end.
How does it know what was done?
From the places the work is already recorded: closed tasks, sent documents, threads, the schedule. It doesn't fill the gaps with plausible activity — anything that was never noted anywhere doesn't make the report. Which, incidentally, becomes visible to you fairly quickly.
Does the report go out on its own?
Not by default: the draft comes to you. Sending without your review can be switched on for a particular client and a particular format — a weekly task summary, say. A report carrying bad news, or anything that touches the invoice, stops with you either way.
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