Signing in, editing a task, what the drafting service reads, and when the work actually runs.
Article one
Getting started
A session is one sitting, start to finish. You describe the idea and choose the decision the week is about; the session drafts a first-week plan and three pieces of writing, and hands them back on screen in the same visit.
What comes back
A first-week plan: ordered tasks written for your idea, ready to edit.
A positioning statement: who it is for, what it is, what it replaces.
Landing-page copy: a headline, a short paragraph and three lines that carry the page.
A first-customer message: a short note to the person you want to hear back from.
Before you start
Two things make a session worth reading. The first is the idea in a sentence or two: who it is for, what it does, and what it replaces. The second is the decision in front of you this week — finding the first customer, sharpening the offer, shipping the first version, or pricing it and asking for money — because that is what the session puts first.
The session, step by step
Start a session. The start button on the home page, or Start a session in the header, opens the session screen with an empty idea field and no focus chosen.
Describe the idea and choose the focus. Write it the way you would say it out loud. Then pick the decision this week is about from the four choices on the screen.
Start the draft. The screen says the drafting is running, then returns the plan and the three written pieces in the same visit. Nothing is queued for later.
Read the plan and edit a task. The plan arrives on the First week screen as ordered tasks. Rewrite the ones that are close but not yet yours: name the people you can reach this week, and cut anything that needs a team you do not have.
Read the drafts. The positioning statement, the landing copy and the first-customer message sit together on the Drafts screen, written for the same idea and the same focus.
Sign in and keep it. Signing in takes an email address and a six-digit code; there is no password. Saving puts the plan and the drafts in Your plans, where you can come back to them.
If the drafting service cannot answer, the session screen says so and offers to try again. You get a retry, not a blank page.
Article two
Your plans, explained
Your plans is the page that keeps the sessions worth returning to. The list you see there is built from the plans saved under your account.
What a saved plan keeps
The ideaThe sentence you described.
The focusThe decision the week was about.
The dayThe date you saved it.
The tasksAs you edited them.
The draftsAll three pieces.
Before the first save
With nothing saved yet, the page says so and offers the way to start a session. Nothing appears in the list until you save a plan of your own.
When the list cannot load
If your plans cannot be read, the page says so and offers to reload. Answer the sign-in if it asks, then reload: the list is read back from your account.
Signing in
Your plans needs the one sign-in the whole product uses. Signed out, the page shows it near the top with a line about what the page holds. Type your email, then the six-digit code that arrives in your inbox — there is no password to remember. Once you are in, the header shows the account you are using and the way to sign out.
Starting the next session
When the business moves, start a new session and save what it drafts. Each save is its own plan in the list, so the plan you kept last week stays as you left it.
Article three
Questions founders ask
Do I need to sign in before I start?
No. Describe the idea, run the session, read the plan and edit a task without an account. Sign in when you want the plan kept: that is the step that needs an email address.
Can I change what the session drafted?
The plan is yours to edit. Rewrite a task until the next step is something you can do this week — narrower, more specific, addressed to the people you can actually reach.
What happens if the drafting service cannot answer?
The session screen says so and offers to try again. Nothing pretends to have finished, and you are never left on a blank page.
What does the drafting service read?
The words you give it: the idea you type and the focus you choose. It reads text, keeps no conversation between requests, and each draft starts from the words in front of it.
Does Nightshift send the first-customer message?
Nightshift writes it; you choose the person and send it from your own inbox. The landing copy works the same way: it is written for you to place on the page you publish.
Does the work run while I am asleep?
A session runs while you are on the page and hands back its result in the same visit. You start it, you watch it draft, and you read the plan before you close the laptop.
What if I want to work on a second idea?
Start another session and describe the new idea. Saving it adds a plan to Your plans beside the first, so both stay readable.
Start here
One sentence is enough
Describe the idea and choose the decision the week is about. The plan and the three drafts come back in the same visit, before you close the laptop.