The Radar
It answers one question a few times a day: who is waiting on us? The Radar is a single Slack message that sorts a healthcare team's message threads into needs a reply, keep an eye on it, and a quick recap, so no client message gets lost.
- Why
- The core job is that nothing gets lost. A message unanswered for more than two hours in business hours gets flagged.
How I built it
- I got read-only access to the messaging tool and a private Slack channel for the digest.
- I had Claude Code write a small script that fetches only the activity since the last run.
- I wrote the rules for sorting: red needs a reply, yellow is one to watch, green is the recap.
- I wrote the privacy rules: first name only, never quote the content, summarize what the person wants.
- I set it to move the "last run" marker only after the Slack post succeeds, so a failed run gets covered next time.
- I scheduled it on my own PC.
- To copy it you need
- Claude, or the AI of your choice, a messaging tool with an API, Slack, and an always-on computer. The gotcha: an unattended cloud job will not be allowed to pull sensitive records. Plan for a machine with a person behind it.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I want to copy The Radar from Frances Tang's What Are We Building profile. A few times a day her AI checks a shared inbox and posts one Slack message: who is waiting on a reply (red), what to keep an eye on (yellow), and a short recap (green). It uses first names only, never quotes what people wrote, and never invents a name, a wait time or a count. Blank beats wrong. Her gotcha: she tried to run it as an unattended cloud job and the AI's safety system refused to fetch sensitive records with no person behind the request, so hers runs on her own computer. Help me build a starter version for my shared inbox or support queue. Start by asking what inbox I use and how long is too long to wait. Ask me for anything you need.
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