How-to guides
The daily agent & overnight research
What runs on its own every day — and what the free overnight lane does.
Diurno HQ works while you don't. Two things run on their own: the daily agent (housekeeping and re-scoring) and the free overnight research agent (works through everything you queued on the free lane).
What the daily agent does
- Processes anything waiting in the research queue.
- Refreshes accounts whose research has gone stale.
- Re-scores everything with time decay — old evidence gently fades, so scores stay honest without anyone touching them.
- Queues people checks for accounts not checked in 14 days (top scores first).
- Pre-builds today's Daily Brief for every workspace, so the morning list is waiting.
- Sends the Daily Brief email digest — one email per organization per morning, only to teammates who have it on (Settings → Team), and only when there's something to contact.
- Runs the sequence engine: every enrollment whose next step has come due sends, advances, or stops (reply detected, unsubscribed, account became a customer) — with the reason recorded.
- Raises alerts for anything noteworthy it did.
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The free overnight research agent
Everything you queue on the free lane — imports, enrichment columns, outreach batches, people checks — is picked up by a subscription-powered research agent that runs nightly (and can be fired on demand). It does the same quality of sourced research as the instant lane; it just doesn't bill per item. Jobs waiting for it show as Free lane on the Research screen, where ▶ promotes any of them to instant if you can't wait.
Same honesty, either lane