DailyNest reads the school emails, the soccer practice emails, the ballet schedule changes emails then sorts them by kid, and sends you one briefing. You pick the time it hits your inbox so you can read it with coffee or before going to sleep at night. The rest of this page is for the part of your brain that, reasonably, may think this is too good to be true.
How does it work?
DailyNest connects to Gmail through Google's official OAuth flow. The same screen you've seen a hundred times, the one that lists exactly what an app is asking for. DailyNest asks for one thing: read-only access. Read-only means DailyNest cannot send email from your account, cannot delete email, cannot mark anything read or unread. Cannot reply, forward, archive, or change a single label.
What DailyNest actually looks at
When you sign up, you tell DailyNest which senders to pay attention to. The school. The after-care program. The pediatrician. The soccer coach. The room parent who sends the class group email. The dance studio. Whatever applies to Ethan and Lily. Those are the only senders DailyNest reads. Your work email from your boss at 11 p.m.: invisible. The Sephora order confirmation: invisible. The thread with your sister about your mother: invisible. The Amazon receipts, the Substack newsletters, the calendar invites from your dentist, the messages from your husband, the group chat about the bachelorette: invisible. Not "filtered out." Not "ignored but technically scanned." Not in DailyNest's system at all. You can add senders any time. You can remove them any time. The dashboard shows you the full list. If a sender is not on it, DailyNest has no idea they exist.
What DailyNest does with what it reads
It pulls out the things that have a date, a deadline, a permission slip, a payment, or a kid's name attached. Picture day on the 14th. Nut-free Wednesday. Half-day Friday. Field trip form due Tuesday. Speech therapy moved to 3:15. It sorts that by kid. It writes one briefing. It sends you that briefing in the morning. It does not store the original emails after the briefing is generated. It does not build a profile on your family. It does not know what you bought, where you traveled, what you read, or what you searched. It knows that Lily has picture day and Ethan needs cleats by Thursday.
Where the data goes
Nowhere you wouldn't expect. Your data is not sold. Your data is not shared with advertisers, data brokers, or partners, because there are no advertisers, data brokers, or partners. Your data is not used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. The language model that drafts the briefing is called through a contract that prohibits training on inputs. We pay for that. It is the entire point. Briefings are stored so you can scroll back through the week. Source emails are not. The senders you approved are stored so DailyNest knows who to listen to. The list of kids and their schedules is stored so DailyNest knows who's who. That's it. Storage is encrypted. Access is logged. The number of people at DailyNest who can look at your data is small and named, and none of them have a reason to.
How to delete everything
One button. Settings, then Delete Account. When you click it, DailyNest revokes its own Gmail access, deletes every briefing, deletes every approved-sender list, deletes the kid profiles, deletes the account. Within 30 days the backups roll over and the data is gone from those too. You can also revoke Gmail access directly from your Google account, at myaccount.google.com under Security, then Third-party apps. That cuts DailyNest off at the source, instantly, without going through us. We mention this because it's true and because you should know it's an option.
The honest part
DailyNest is a small company. The reason the privacy model is this restrictive is not because a compliance team forced it. It's because the founder is a working mother who would not hand her Gmail to a company with a looser one. The product is built for someone who reads the permissions screen. If something on this page doesn't add up, email hello@dailynest.io and ask. A person will answer. Probably the same person who wrote this.
What happens next
You connect Gmail. You approve four or five senders. The next morning, you get a briefing with coffee. Picture day is Thursday. The form is due Tuesday. Ethan has the field trip, Lily has the half-day, and you knew about all of it before 7 a.m. That's the whole thing.