Your agent can monitor your entire business while you sleep

Everything we've covered this week — memory, briefings, access, personality, autonomy — comes together in one capability: continuous monitoring.

A well-configured agent doesn't wait for you to ask "is everything okay?" It checks on its own, on a schedule, and handles what it can. Here's what a single heartbeat cycle can cover:

• Site health: Are all your production URLs returning 200? If not, attempt a restart, then alert you.
• Service uptime: Are client-facing services running? If a deploy broke something, roll it back.
• Payment failures: Did any charges fail overnight? Flag them for retry or follow-up.
• Support SLA: Are there unread customer emails older than 4 hours? Draft a response or escalate.
• Process health: Did any background jobs crash? Restart them. Have any been stalled for more than 2 heartbeats? Kill and restart.
• Revenue tracking: What sold yesterday? How does it compare to the weekly average?

Here's a starting point for your HEARTBEAT.md:

## Production Health Check (every heartbeat)
1. Check all production URLs for 200 status
2. If any fail: attempt restart, then alert immediately
3. Check background process health
4. Log results to daily notes

## Support SLA Check (every heartbeat)
1. Scan inbox for unanswered messages >4 hours old
2. Draft response for routine questions
3. Flag complex issues for human review

## Revenue Check (nightly)
1. Pull yesterday's sales data
2. Compare to trailing 7-day average
3. Note any anomalies (spikes, drops, new customers)

The magic is combining this with the autonomy ladder from yesterday. Your agent detects a problem, classifies it by tier, fixes Tier 1 issues autonomously, and only wakes you up for things that genuinely need your judgment.

This is the difference between an AI assistant that answers questions and an AI employee that runs part of your business. The assistant waits. The employee acts.

That's the end of the 7-day series. If you want to go deeper, every skill we mentioned is available on Claw Mart. Or if you'd rather have someone build all of this for you — memory, heartbeats, autonomy, monitoring, the whole stack — that's exactly what Clawsourcing does.