Proactive Theodor

With one toggle, Theodor stops waiting to be asked — he reviews your workspace about once an hour and surfaces ideas aimed at growing your value and profit.

What you’ll learn

• What Proactive Theodor does on each hourly pass.
• Where his suggestions land, and how you respond.
• Why it needs the background daemon to run while you’re away.

Turn it on

1. Open Settings → Background & proactivity.
2. Flip ⏰ Hourly auto-review on (it’s off by default). The same toggle lives on Theodor’s bridge — switching it in either place keeps both in sync.
3. From now on, Theodor reviews your workspace about once an hour.

What he prepares

• Suggestions for you to approve, discuss, or dismiss — collected in Theodor’s bridge (💡 Suggestions) and an hourly popup.
• Genuinely low-risk moves he just makes, then shows you afterward.

Pair proactivity with the daemon

On its own, Proactive Theodor only runs while the app is open. Install the background daemon (same tab) and the hourly review keeps going overnight with the window closed — that’s the combination that makes “proactive” actually proactive.

He already knows your businesses

Because Theodor is grounded in every Company you’ve created, his suggestions are about your real work — not generic advice.

What it’s like to live with

Proactivity is the feature people either love or switch off in a week. The difference is usually expectations:

It notices the thing you’ve been ignoring. Because he’s grounded in your actual Companies, the useful suggestions are specific: a task that’s been sitting in review for nine days, a Company with no activity this month, a plan that stalled and nobody restarted. These are the things that quietly rot in a busy week, and having them surfaced without asking is the main reason to turn this on.

It gives you a decision queue rather than more work. Each suggestion is approve, discuss or dismiss. Dismissing is a perfectly good outcome — the value is in having seen it, not in acting on all of it.

It costs money in the background, quietly. An hourly review is an hourly model call, running whether or not anything interesting happened. If you’re watching spend closely, this is a real line item, and it’s a fair reason to leave it off until you have a budget set.

Turn it on for a week, then judge

Enable it, install the daemon, and read the suggestions for one week. If more than a couple were genuinely useful, keep it. If they were all noise, switch it off and rely on your Monday briefing Routine instead — that’s a legitimate choice, not a failure.

Recap

Proactive Theodor reviews your workspace hourly and files suggestions while you’re elsewhere, doing the safe stuff himself. Pair it with the daemon so it never sleeps. Next: how much rope to give each worker — and the one switch that stops everything.

📖 Reference in the docs: Theodor (the bridge) · Background & proactivity

➡️ Next: Autonomy & the kill-switch