What runs on its own
Two kinds of automation keep the work moving without you asking:- The Daily win plan, a scheduled automation every workspace has. Once a day it picks the next pieces of work that bring you closer to the prompts you track.
- Event automations, which run when something happens to the workspace (you drop out of an answer, a competitor changes its pricing page) instead of on a clock. The built-in one is the Event responder.
The Daily win plan
Every workspace has a Daily win plan automation that runs at 06:00 in the workspace’s time zone, an hour before the morning brief. Each morning it reads the prompts you are losing and the ones you are winning, and does at most three pieces of work. Each one is one of:
All of it waits for your approval or review. A morning where you are winning everything you track is a legitimate outcome: the plan says so rather than inventing work.
What it can reach
The Daily win plan starts with this reach (tool groups): Your own data, The open web, Remember what we learn, Your site’s code on GitHub, Make things, Rewrite a passage on your site, Find who to contact, Answer questions where people already argue, Get listed on directories, and Notion. A group whose connection you have not made yet (GitHub or Notion, say) is skipped until you connect it. You do not need to edit the automation afterwards: the next morning’s run picks the new connection up.It replaced the Daily check-in
Workspaces used to start with a Daily check-in automation that read the numbers each morning and reported them. The Daily win plan replaces it. Existing workspaces were given the Daily win plan once, in one of four ways:- Created, if the workspace had neither.
- Converted from a Daily check-in you had never edited. Its run history is kept.
- Resumed, if detection had paused the old check-in.
- Added beside a check-in you had rewritten in your own words, which is left as you wrote it.
Event automations
An automation with the On a change trigger (event on the wire) runs when something happens instead of at a time. It listens for one or more of these events:
An automation with an empty list listens for all five; over MCP and REST you name them explicitly (see Creating one).
prompt_lost, citation_lost and new_deciding_source come from the hourly detection pass. page_changed comes from detection and from the homepage monitor, and competitor_changed from competitor monitoring (see Change monitoring).
An event is picked up within about 5 minutes of being recorded.
What an event run is given
The run gets the automation’s saved instruction plus the list of events that woke it. Each event is dated and described as something seen once, not as a trend: “an answer on Perplexity stopped citing /pricing on 2026-09-22”, never “citations are falling”.Limits
- One run covers up to 10 events. More than that and the rest wait for the next run.
- At most 3 runs per automation per rolling 24 hours. Events past that cap are recorded as skipped, with the reason, and are visible in loop health.
- One run at a time. If a run of the same automation is still in progress, new events wait for it to finish.
- Events older than 48 hours are not acted on.
- Out of credits: the event is skipped and the reason says the balance is spent.
Creating one
Event automations cannot be proposed from a chat. Create one from the Automations page (the Event responder starter, or New automation with On a change), withcreate_automation over MCP, or with POST /v1/automations over the REST API. Over MCP and REST an event trigger needs a non-empty event_types list.
The Event responder
The built-in Event responder template (idevent-responder) listens for all five event types and runs the same procedure as the Daily win plan, scoped to what changed. It takes at most one action per event: propose a fix, draft content, or raise a task.
Change monitoring
Two of the events need something to watch pages on a schedule. Attensira sets that up for you:- Competitors. When any automation listens for
competitor_changed, Attensira watches up to 5 of your tracked competitors’ pricing, feature and comparison or alternatives pages, once a day. - Your homepage. When any automation listens for
page_changed, Attensira watches the workspace’s homepage daily. Changes to navigation, the footer and cosmetic details are ignored.
competitor_changed or page_changed event. Monitors are added and removed automatically as your competitors, automations and workspaces change: removing a competitor, or the last automation that listens for the event, stops the watch, and deleting a workspace stops all of its monitoring.
Who gets this without asking
Paid workspaces are enrolled in the morning brief, hourly detection and the off-site work streams automatically, the first time their subscription is active.New workspaces start in the draft approval mode: the loop does the work and waits for your yes before anything leaves the workspace.