Simon — Personal Chief of Staff
Simon is a private, personal productivity system I built and use for my own chief-of-staff work — email, calendar, files, and task tracking across accounts I personally own and operate.
This is not a public product. It isn't available to anyone else, and it doesn't manage data on behalf of anyone other than me.
What Simon does
Across a small set of Google accounts I personally own, Simon is authorized to:
- Gmail — read, search, and organize mail (labels, archiving, trash/restore); draft messages; send email only where I've explicitly pre-authorized it.
- Calendar — read events across connected calendars; create, edit, reschedule, or cancel events where explicitly authorized.
- Drive — search and read existing files; create new files; organize, move, and update files where explicitly authorized.
- Docs & Sheets — read, create, and edit documents and spreadsheets where explicitly authorized.
- Contacts — read, create, and update personal contacts where explicitly authorized.
- Tasks — read and manage task lists and tasks.
Runs on infrastructure I control, using Anthropic's Claude models to process and reason over that information.
Separately, for my own primary Google account only, I also use Google's own first-party connector for Claude to read Calendar and Drive — that connection is authorized, governed, and operated directly by Anthropic, not by this application, and isn't covered by the scopes described here.
What Simon doesn't do
- Doesn't sell data, in any form, to anyone.
- Doesn't use data for advertising or build advertising profiles.
- Doesn't share data with third parties, other than the infrastructure and API providers required to run it.
- Doesn't act on, or gain access to, any account I haven't explicitly connected.
- Doesn't permanently delete mail, files, contacts, or calendar events unless I've explicitly authorized that specific action — routine deletions go through normal reversible mechanisms (e.g. Gmail Trash) wherever the underlying Google product offers one.
Access & revocation
Because Simon connects through standard Google OAuth, I can review or revoke its access at any time from my Google Account's Security → Third-party access settings, the same as any other connected app.