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The Inbox Reset
A step-by-step playbook for clearing your inbox and building a system that keeps it that way — without spending your weekend on email.
A newsletter by Emilie
Playbooks & Priorities
Most people are running their lives manually. This newsletter is about fixing that — systems, automation, and a little engineering discipline for the chaotic, invisible work of real life.
What you'll get:
- Frameworks for running your household like a well-designed system
- Automations and templates I actually use (not theory)
- Honest essays on parenting, work, and removing friction
About the newsletter
Because the problem isn't that life is too full. It's that nothing is designed.
This is a place for people who:
- feel like their life is held together by a thousand tiny, manual processes
- are tired of keeping everything in their head (or in a never-ending to-do list)
- know there has to be a better way to run a household, a calendar, and a life
Not about optimizing yourself into oblivion. About removing the unnecessary friction so you can actually breathe.
Hi, I'm Emilie
Your systems sidekick
About me
Hi, I'm Emilie — a COO, an engineer, and a mom of three.
I've spent my career turning chaotic, fast-moving companies into ones that run on actual systems — clear ownership, repeatable processes, automation where it counts.
Then I come home to three kids and a household that, like most, runs on willpower and group chats. So I started applying the same playbook there. Friends kept asking for the templates. This newsletter is that, packaged up.
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Kids running the chaos engine
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Years building data & ops systems
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Spreadsheets I expect you to maintain
Resource Library
Browse by area of life — each resource is a system I actually use, packaged up so you can use it too.
PDF GuideAutomation
Getting Started With an Always-On AI Agent
A practical guide for working professionals on setting up an always-on AI agent that handles the busywork so you can focus on what actually matters.
PDF WorkshopAutomation
[STARTUP COLUMBUS] Getting Started with OpenClaw (KiloClaw)
Workshop companion from StartUP Columbus on building your agentic AI workforce with OpenClaw (KiloClaw) — setup, patterns, and getting your first agents running.
PDF WorksheetAutomation
The Agent Context Inventory
A printable worksheet for mapping the context your AI agents need — the people, tools, preferences, and recurring decisions that make an always-on agent actually useful.
New resources, every few weeks.
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