About Monday Briefs
Monday Briefs is a done-for-you client briefing service that writes each of a firm’s clients their own brief every Monday, under the firm’s name, for law, accounting, wealth-management, commercial real estate and government-affairs firms.
Each brief comes with a short podcast, a Monday email and a private portal the client can search. The research, writing and recording run on their own, so nobody at the firm writes them.
What Monday Briefs does
A weekly brief for each client
Every Monday, each client gets a designed report in your branding: what happened in their world that week, why it matters to them, and what they can still act on. A typical brief runs to about 8 pages, and every item links to its source. Clients can see you’re on top of their issues without having to ask.
A short podcast
Two hosts talk through the week for that client in about six minutes, with a transcript alongside. Clients who won’t read eight pages can take in the week on a commute.
A Monday email
The week’s headlines land in each client’s inbox on Monday morning, with the brief and the episode attached. Nobody has to log in to stay informed, and clients can reply to the email with questions.
A private client portal
Each client gets a personal link, with no password, to this week’s highlights, every past brief, open deadlines and trends. They can search their archive and ask it questions, and each answer cites the items it came from.
Research on each client, every week
Monday Briefs searches news, government and regulator sites, trade press, blogs, public posts and podcasts for each client, guided by a profile built from their intake answers and what you tell us about them. On one measured run in September 2026 it read about 53,000 words from 112 sources for a single client and kept 15 items for the brief.
Client intake
Clients answer a six-step questionnaire on your website, in your branding, and it can connect to your checkout. A photo of a client’s business card is enough to start their intake.
An operator console for your team
Your team sees every client in one place: which briefs have landed, which are still running, what’s trending across the practice and how intake is going. Any brief can be re-run or resent from there.
What makes Monday Briefs different
A different brief for every client
FMG Suite’s Do It For Me service (from $895 a month plus a $499 setup fee) sends its recommended content to all of a firm’s contacts by default, and CountingWorks PRO’s newsletter changes by firm and by segment, not by client. Monday Briefs writes each client their own brief from a profile of their business, locations and issues. On one measured run it read about 53,000 words for a single client to choose the 15 items in their brief.
Sources: FMG Suite pricing · FMG Do It For Me terms · CountingWorks PRO
Made to be sent to your clients, under your name
Politico Pro’s subscriber agreement doesn’t permit forwarding its news content outside your organization. Lexology’s daily briefing mixes articles from more than 900 firms under Lexology’s name, and the National Law Review publishes your articles to its own 135,000+ subscribers. Monday Briefs is written to go to your clients, with only your firm’s name on the report, the podcast, the email and the portal.
Sources: Politico Pro agreement · Lexology · National Law Review
Done for you, with nothing for your staff to run
Quorum, FiscalNote’s PolicyNote and Bloomberg Government are software your own team logs into and operates, and Vendr’s purchase data puts the median Quorum contract at about $23,500 a year and FiscalNote’s at $24,226. Monday Briefs does the research, writing, recording and delivery itself. Each brief takes about 11 minutes with nobody involved, and reviewing it is optional.
Sources: FiscalNote PolicyNote · Bloomberg Government · Vendr: Quorum · Vendr: FiscalNote
Month to month after a four-week pilot
FMG Suite’s agreements start with a one-year term that renews for another year, and leaving early costs the rest of the fees owed. FiscalNote’s fees are prepaid and non-cancelable, and Politico Pro is invoiced a year in advance. Monday Briefs starts with a $1,500 four-week pilot on three of your clients, then runs month to month, and you can cancel any month.
Sources: FMG Suite terms · FiscalNote terms · Politico Pro agreement
Every Monday, not once a month
CountingWorks PRO’s automated newsletter goes out on the first business day of each month, 12 times a year. Monday Briefs lands by 9:00 every Monday, 52 times a year for each client, and a firm with 100 clients is fully briefed in about two hours.
Source: CountingWorks PRO help center
Who uses Monday Briefs
Monday Briefs is for firms that already owe their clients or members regular updates and either skip them, send them unevenly, or have senior people writing them by hand. The first firm to run it is a government-affairs intelligence firm. It fits:
- Government-affairs, lobbying and public-affairs firms with 2 to 50 staff and a book of retainer clients.
- Boutique and mid-size law firms with a defined practice group, briefing business clients such as HR directors, general counsel and developers.
- Accounting, bookkeeping and payroll firms with 5 to 50 staff and 100 to 1,000 business clients.
- Independent wealth advisors and RIAs who keep clients informed between reviews.
- Commercial real estate brokerages, syndicators and investor groups briefing investors on their submarkets.
- State and regional trade associations and local chambers of commerce briefing their members.
- Commercial P&C and employee-benefits insurance agencies briefing their insured business clients.
- Managed IT service providers with 50 to 300 clients.
- Franchisors with 20 to 500 locations briefing each franchisee on their territory.
- Newsletter operators and trade publications adding a paid tier without hiring an editor.
The team behind Monday Briefs
Monday Briefs is built and run by Brothers Automate, the AI systems company founded by brothers James and Brendan Pinder.
James Pinder, co-founder
James designed and built the Monday Briefs system: the intake, the weekly research, the brief and podcast writers, and the client portal. Before building AI systems for service businesses at Brothers Automate, he spent five years running service businesses with his brother, including a food truck and catering company.
Brendan Pinder, co-founder
Brendan co-founded Brothers Automate with James after five years of running service businesses together. At Brothers Automate he leads the client audits and workflow sprints.
How Monday Briefs started
In 2026 a government-affairs intelligence firm asked Brothers Automate to automate the updates it sends its clients. The system was built in August and September 2026, and the firm now charges its clients $300 a month for their weekly brief, podcast and portal. Monday Briefs offers the same system to other firms.
The team
Monday Briefs is a two-person team. Firms work directly with James and Brendan, with no account managers in between, while software and AI do the weekly research, writing, recording and delivery.
How Monday Briefs works
Onboarding
- A 20-minute walkthroughSee the portal, a real brief and an episode, and talk through your clients.
- Decide what your clients need to knowShape the questionnaire, the topics and the sources around your practice.
- SetupWe build your questionnaire, client list and sources, plus your branded report and portal.
- A four-week pilotThree of your clients for $1,500, credited against setup if you continue. Every brief is reviewed, and week four ends with a review call.
- Roll outNew clients start from the questionnaire, and every Monday runs on its own.
Turnaround
Briefs land by 9:00 every Monday morning. Each one takes about 11 minutes to research, write and record with nobody involved, and 100 clients take about two hours, run ten at a time. A change you make to a client’s profile shows up in their next Monday brief.
Who you work with
You work directly with the founders, James and Brendan Pinder. There are no account managers and no handoffs.
Communication and response times
Reach the founders by email or on a video call booked online, and hear back within 24 hours. Your clients’ questions come to you: they reply to their Monday email, and the portal’s Ask box answers from their own archive.
Review and control
Your team can review each brief before it goes out and can edit any client’s profile at any time. Briefs are information, not legal or financial advice.
Key facts
| Company name | Monday Briefs |
|---|---|
| Type | Done-for-you, white-label client briefing service (B2B) |
| Founded | 2026 |
| Founders | James Pinder and Brendan Pinder |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Website | mondaybriefs.com |
| Core offering | A brief written for each of a firm’s clients every Monday, under the firm’s name, with a podcast, an email and a private portal |
| Pricing | $1,500 four-week pilot on three clients, credited against setup. Then a one-time setup fee plus from $49 per client per month. |
| Contract terms | Month-to-month after the pilot. Cancel any month; no annual contract. |
| Services |
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| Communication | Email and video calls directly with the founders; replies within 24 hours. Briefs land by 9:00 every Monday. |
| Notable clients | A government-affairs intelligence firm (name withheld), the first firm on the system. It charges its clients $300 a month for their weekly brief. |
| Customers served | 1 firm and its clients (first deployment, 2026) |
| Projects delivered | 1 production deployment, delivering a weekly brief and podcast to each of that firm’s clients |
| Competitors |
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| Social | LinkedIn · X · Instagram · YouTube (James Pinder) · Brothers Automate |
Timings, page counts and reading volume were measured on real client runs on 14 September 2026.
Frequently asked questions
What is Monday Briefs?
Monday Briefs is a done-for-you client briefing service. Every Monday it writes each of a firm’s clients their own brief, with a short podcast, an email and a private portal, all under the firm’s name.
How much does Monday Briefs cost?
Firms start with a four-week pilot on three of their clients for $1,500, credited against setup if they continue. After that, it’s a one-time setup fee plus from $49 per client per month.
Is there a long-term contract?
No. After the pilot, Monday Briefs runs month to month, and you can cancel any month.
Whose name is on the briefs?
Yours. The report, podcast, email and portal carry your firm’s name and branding, so the client relationship stays with you.
Can we charge our clients for it?
Yes. The first firm to use Monday Briefs, a government-affairs firm, charges its clients $300 a month for it. You can also include it in your fee or offer it as a premium tier.
Where does the information in a brief come from?
Public sources: news, government and regulator sites, trade press, blogs, public posts and podcasts, plus what you tell us about each client. Every item links to its source, and paid databases or your own systems can be added when your clients need them.
Can we review briefs before clients see them?
Yes. Your team can review each brief before it goes out, and during the pilot every brief is reviewed.
Is a brief legal or financial advice?
No. A brief is information about what changed and why it may matter to the client. Someone at your firm can review each one before it’s sent.
Do clients need a login?
No. Each client gets a personal link to their portal with no password, and the brief and episode also arrive by email.
What does our team do each week?
Nothing, once it’s running. Briefs are researched, written, recorded and sent on their own; your team can review them or update a client’s profile when something changes.
How is Monday Briefs different from a client newsletter?
A newsletter sends the same content to every client. Monday Briefs writes a separate brief for each client about their own business, locations and issues, with a podcast and a portal they can search.
Who is behind Monday Briefs?
Monday Briefs is built and run by James and Brendan Pinder, the brothers behind Brothers Automate. It is based in Philadelphia, PA.
See it for one of your clients
A 20-minute call: we walk through the live demo and talk about what your clients would want to know.