A short weekly update that takes four minutes instead of forty, written from the work your team already logged. Describe the engagement and a Taskade Genesis app produces the same structure every Friday: what moved, what is next, what needs a decision from the client, and what is at risk, in plain language a busy sponsor reads on a phone.
The Client Connect Dashboard is a live Taskade Genesis app embedded on this page, built to hold the current picture of every client account in one place. Use it here, then click "Use this app" to clone it in about ten seconds and describe your own client cadence so that picture becomes the weekly update you send on a Friday.
Weekly updates are the cheapest trust you can buy, and the first thing to slip when you are busy. Making them automatic protects the relationship on the weeks when delivery is hard, which are exactly the weeks silence does the most damage. Workspace DNA writes it for you. Memory holds what you said last week, so the update reads as a continuing story rather than a fresh list. Intelligence, backed by 15+ frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-weight providers, turns raw task movement into three sentences a sponsor can act on. Execution drafts, schedules, and sends on the cadence you set.
The update lives in the layouts you need:
- List view for the readable update the client receives
- Board view for the underlying work that fed it
- Table view for the archive of every update sent, by client and week
- Calendar view for the send schedule across all engagements
- Plus the rest of the 7 project views
Automations make it happen without you. Wire Taskade automations so a scheduled run every Thursday afternoon drafts the update from the week's completed and blocked items, drops it in your review queue, and sends on Friday morning once you approve. With 100+ bidirectional integrations, your project records and calendar pull the raw material in while Gmail, Slack, and Microsoft Teams push the finished update out to wherever the client lives.
The AI agents inside the app carry 34 built-in tools including persistent memory, web search, file analysis, custom slash commands, and multi-agent collaboration. Tell the agent your sponsor cares about risk and dates rather than activity, and every update leads with the two things that changed the plan.
Clone it, share the archive with your team, and the record of what you told each client is yours. That archive is quietly valuable the first time someone says they were never informed.
Build your own cadence in Taskade Genesis, see live reporting apps in the Community Gallery, or learn scheduled automations in Learn. Draw the content from Track Deliverables Across Every Client Engagement, and step up to the monthly view with Build a Monthly Client Reporting Pack.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long should a weekly client update be?
Short enough to read on a phone between meetings, which usually means under two hundred words plus a link to the detail. The app defaults to four blocks: progress, next, decisions needed, and risks. Anything longer tends to get skimmed, which defeats the purpose.
Does it just list completed tasks?
No, and that is the point. Task lists are activity, not progress. The agent groups movement into outcomes the sponsor cares about and names what it means for the plan, so "three interviews completed" becomes "discovery is on track for the Friday readout."
What if a week went badly?
Say so early and specifically. The app has a dedicated risk block precisely so bad news has a home and does not get buried, and the agent will draft it factually with a proposed response. Clients forgive slippage they heard about in week two far more readily than slippage they discover in week six.
Can I use a different format per client?
Yes. Each engagement carries its own template, tone, and send day, because a technical program lead and a chief executive want very different updates. The agent applies the right one automatically based on the client record.
Do I have to approve every update before it sends?
That is up to you. Most consultants keep a review step for the first month, then move to automatic sending with a private notification once they trust the output. The draft-and-approve flow takes a couple of minutes a week.
Can the client reply and have it captured?
Yes. Replies can flow back into the engagement record as notes or new requests, so a question asked in response to a Friday update becomes a tracked item rather than a lost email. That is particularly useful on retainers where every request needs to hit the ledger.
Will it work when several consultants are on the same account?
It works better. Everyone's completed work feeds one update, so the client hears a single voice instead of three partial accounts. The archive also shows who contributed what, which helps at review time.
What day should the update go out?
Friday morning works for most engagements because it closes the week while the sponsor is still at their desk, and it gives them the weekend to raise anything before Monday. Some clients prefer Monday, framed as the week ahead rather than the week behind. Pick one, keep it, and let the automation hold the rhythm. The consistency matters more than the day, because a predictable update becomes something the client relies on rather than something they have to chase.
