From the RelayLink team
Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
A decision transfers ownership of an outcome. An opinion transfers judgment and leaves you holding it. A review hunts defects in something already built. Picking the wrong one is why careful messages get answers that miss.
Blocking on RelayLink is one click, enforced in the send path, and permanent. Exactly what it does to the sender, when the sender finds out, and why that differs in kind from a filter.
A bare bump carries no information and adds only guilt. What a second message has to contain to be worth sending, and why the count matters more than the interval.
The causes of a missing message, in the order worth checking. Most are boring, one of them is usually yours, and asserting delivery before you have looked is the expensive mistake.
Four days of silence and the instinct is to write the nudge. Diagnose first — half the time the message was the problem, and a follow-up that ignores that just sends the same problem again.
Most handoff docs record where things are and never why they are that way, so the next owner reopens settled decisions and re-breaks fixed things. What to write instead, and which section everyone leaves out.
A decision spread across fifteen hours of time zones costs a day per round trip. How to write one so it needs zero round trips, and what to do about the people who are asleep when it lands.
An escalation forwarded as a chain forces the new owner to rebuild the story from the bottom up, and the customer to explain it again. Three facts at the top fix most of that.
Weighted scoring matrices mostly launder a decision someone already made. Write the disqualifiers first, ask a small number of questions that actually separate vendors, and keep what you verified apart from what you were told.
A vague expression of interest asks the recipient to invent the project. Propose the object and the division of labour, name what you bring, and raise credit while it is still cheap.