Ten minutes a day. That's the whole system.
Enviable networks run on a system, not extra charm. Goodword runs most of yours in about ten minutes a day, and keeps the relationships you've spent a career building from going quiet.
Here's the day, in order.
Every morning (5–10 minutes)
1. Clear the digest (2 min)
Open the Data Hub. Overnight, the digest sorted the noise into a short list of people waiting on a decision from you: connection requests to accept, new contacts to add context to, messages worth a reply. Go down the list. Accept, note, message, group, or dismiss, until you hit "You're all caught up."
Why it's first: it's triage. Two minutes clears the reactive pile so your real attention goes to what moves things forward. It also catches the one message that mattered before it's three weeks old.
2. Work your reminders (3 min)
Check your top reminders on the home screen. These are the promises you actually made: the intro you offered, the deck you said you'd send, the note from someone important still sitting unanswered. Goodword pulls them from your meetings, email, and DMs, and ranks them so the queue stays short and worth trusting. Each one opens with a draft already written. Edit a line, send, done.
Why it's second: your follow-through is your reputation. Goodword makes keeping a promise take thirty seconds instead of living in the back of your head.
3. Monday and Friday: recommendations (5 min)
Twice a week, three new cards. Each is a person picked against your goals, with the reason attached ("just changed jobs," "you haven't talked in months") and a message already drafted. Send, schedule, or pass on all three.
Why it's the growth engine: the digest and reminders keep today running. Recommendations are how the network compounds. Six goal-aimed conversations a week, many of them dormant ties where the trust is already built, is more than most people manage in a quarter.
As the day happens
After a meeting, capture it
With Granola connected, this is automatic. The note files itself to the people who were there, and your commitments become reminders before you're back at your desk. No Granola? Text Goodword on your way back from a lunch meeting, or copy and paste your meeting notes into Goodword's AI chat or via the MCP. Capture within the hour, in under two minutes. Goodword handles the organizing.
When you need someone, search
A prospect names their company. Search it, and you might know a board member. A client asks for a referral. Search it, make the intro, bank the goodwill. Booking a trip to Chicago? Search "people I know in Chicago" before you book anything.
Bring your network into Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini
With the MCP connected, the batch work happens where you already work. "Brief me on tomorrow's meetings." "Draft follow-ups for everyone from the conference." "Who in my network fits this?"
Once a week (10 minutes, pick your Friday)
Check your watched posts. Every group with post watching turned on sends its members' posts into one place in the Data Hub, so all the posts you care about are together instead of buried in the feed. Filter through the noise and focus on who's important, then comment on one or two. It's a low-effort, high-impact way to stay top of mind with the people who matter.
Tend your groups and make intros. Skim your key groups (auto-update has kept them current), accept or dismiss any suggested groups, and check shared groups for pending intro requests. Draft each intro in one click.
Update your goals. Still fundraising? Still hunting clients? Your goals steer your recommendations, so keep them honest as your priorities move. Ask Goodword to update them in AI chat.
How it all fits
Goodword is a loop. Each feature is one stage of it.
Integrations build the foundation of your Goodword CRM. LinkedIn, email, calendar, Granola, Luma, CSVs. Everything flows in and stays current on its own. (This is setup, not routine. Connect once, widen the history windows, forget it.)
Notes and debriefs give it memory. Everything you capture comes back to you: in search results, in sharper drafts, in the story on every profile.
The digest and reminders keep you on track with what's important. You react to what happened, and you keep every promise.
Recommendations and post watch grow what's next. Goal-aimed outreach at the moments that matter.
Search, groups, and the MCP put it to work the second you need someone.
Do the two-minute captures and everything downstream sharpens: search finds more, drafts carry real context, recommendations aim true. Skip them and it all goes generic. That's the trade, and it's a good one.
The honest minimum
Busy week? Two things. Clear your daily digest, and make sure your data sources are connected. That alone keeps your network warmer than almost anyone's you know.
Roughly ten minutes a day. Set that against what a single revived relationship is worth: the investor who comes back, the client who returns, the referral that turns into the engagement. Best-priced ten minutes on your calendar.
Start tomorrow morning. Open the Data Hub and clear the digest. The rest of the rhythm builds itself from there.