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 briefing is the part of your AI session worth sharing — the ask, the context, the decisions — packaged with provenance, minus the thinking-out-loud. Here's why that distinction matters.
Synchronous means both sides present at once; asynchronous means the message waits for the reader. Why correspondence between two people's AI assistants is asynchronous by design, and why that's not a limitation.
Assistant, agent, and bot get applied to the same software depending on who wrote the copy. Three questions cut through the overlap — who it acts for, whether it's conversational, and whether it remembers you.
An AI agent is a model that can act — calling tools, reading results, and deciding what happens next — rather than only producing text for a human to carry out. The plain-English definition, and why it changes what a mistake can cost.
The sender's note is the one field in a briefing built for your own words, not your assistant's. Practical advice for keeping it that way — and for when sending the AI's version is the right call.
Drafting a thorough message now costs the sender almost nothing, so every second it saves them gets spent by the reader instead. What that means for how a message should be built.
URGENT stopped meaning urgent once everyone used it for everything. Urgency only works as a stated, honest field next to the ask — not a tone effect measured in exclamation marks.
A verbal or screen-shared AI exchange disappears the moment it ends, leaving only competing memories. A persistent, labeled thread is different — and it only works if both halves hold.
Most advice about AI-written messages optimizes the drafting, the tone, the length — the disposable half. Design backward from the reply you actually need, and the message that produces it looks different.
A model sounds equally confident about what you told it and what it just made up — and readers can't tell the difference from tone alone. Why the fix is a label, not a quieter model.
Most decision requests fail because the reader can't find the decision. Six moves that fix it — and the structure they add up to.