AI Weekly Briefing
The weekly briefing is your personal garden advisor. It reads your active plantings, your 7-day weather forecast, your location, and the current season — then writes a short, specific decision note for your garden this week.
The four sections
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Weather this week | A 1–2 sentence summary of the forecast — temperature range, rain days, any notable conditions (frost, heat wave, prolonged dry). No garden advice here. |
| Harvest now | Specific plants and beds that are ready or overdue for harvest, based on days to maturity and your sow dates. |
| Watch list | Pest, disease, or maintenance items driven by the combination of weather and what you're growing. Wet mild conditions → slugs and grey mould. Dry heat → spider mites and watering stress. |
| Watering | Whether to water this week and why, based on forecast rain and current conditions. |
How it's generated
1
Your active plantings
Plant names, bed locations, and sow dates from your current growing season.
2
7-day forecast + season + location
Weather context for the week ahead, your hemisphere season, and your property's location name.
3
AI generates briefing
All inputs are combined into a structured 4-section decision note for your garden this week.
4
Shown on dashboard + saved to history
The briefing appears on your dashboard and is permanently saved to your briefing history.
The four sections of a briefing
Weather this week
1–2 sentences on the forecast — temperature range, rain days, notable conditions.
Harvest now
Specific plants and beds ready or overdue based on sow dates and days to maturity.
Watch list
Pest, disease, or maintenance items driven by weather and what you're growing.
Watering
Whether to water this week and why, based on forecast rain and current conditions.
Caching and regeneration
The briefing is generated once and cached for 7 days. When you load the dashboard, you see the cached version instantly. After 7 days it regenerates automatically on the next visit.
Hit Regenerate on the dashboard to force a fresh briefing at any time — useful if you've just added new plantings or want updated advice after a weather event.
Briefing history
Every briefing is saved permanently. Browse past briefings at Reports → Weekly briefings. This builds a record of advice over time — useful for comparing seasonal patterns or reviewing what was flagged months ago.
What makes a better briefing?
- More active plantings with accurate sow dates → more specific harvest and watch advice
- Specific bed names → actionable location references ("Pak choy in Small raised bed 2")
- Property with coordinates → accurate weather context
- Finished plants marked as finished → briefing focuses on what's actually in the ground
Tip: The briefing quality scales directly with your data quality. A garden with 15 named plantings in named beds gets a genuinely useful briefing. A garden with no plantings gets generic advice.
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