Hi, we're the aiFetchly team. This post is from the team behind aiFetchly — an open-source, local-first desktop AI agent for business automation: https://www.aifetchly.com

Every small business has tasks that repeat on a clock: the Monday inbox sweep, the Friday invoice check, the weekly summary nobody enjoys writing. They are not hard — they are just always there. That is exactly what scheduled workflows in aiFetchly are for.

What a scheduled workflow does

You set a task once, with a time and a trigger, and aiFetchly runs it on schedule on your own computer. For example:

  • Morning triage (every weekday, 9:00): scan new customer mail, sort it by urgency, and draft replies from your local business knowledge base — so you start the day with a prioritised list, not a pile of unread mail.
  • Weekly document round-up (every Friday): collect the week's invoices and contracts, sort them into folders, and pull out the key details — amounts, dates, parties — into a short summary.
  • Recurring reports: prepare a draft weekly summary from your documents and notes, ready for a human to check and send.

Nothing is sent automatically. A human reviews every draft before anything goes out.

Why local-first matters here

Scheduled work touches your real business data — customer mail, invoices, internal notes. aiFetchly runs locally, and your business knowledge base stays on your own computer. The agent works with your own documents and your own email, Sheets and CRM connections (via plugins), rather than uploading your business to a cloud service.

How to try it

  1. Download aiFetchly from https://www.aifetchly.com and add your business documents to the local knowledge base.
  2. Create a scheduled workflow: pick the task, the schedule, and the sources it may use.
  3. Let it run once, review the drafts, adjust the instructions, and only then let it become a routine.

See how the local knowledge base works in practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTGsQ27HsfA

Pricing

The Community edition is free to use. Plus starts at $10/month. (The AI Content Assistant is a Plus-only feature.)

What repetitive task would you schedule first — inbox triage, document sorting, or a weekly summary? Let us know in the comments.