When ChatGPT's built-in tasks are enough, and when they are not
ChatGPT can already remind you of things and re-run a prompt on a schedule. That is the right tool for reminders, daily briefings you read inside ChatGPT, and anything where the answer is text in the chat.
ClickRuntime is for jobs that need real code, your API keys, a result delivered outside the chat, or memory of what happened on earlier runs. It works the same from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and other assistants that support MCP connectors.
ClickRuntime is for scheduled work that has to touch the outside world. A ClickRuntime automation is a small Python script that runs on our servers. It can call any HTTP API, use keys you save in the ClickRuntime dashboard, remember values between runs, and deliver results by email or to Slack, so nothing depends on a conversation being open.
- Pull numbers from your own API or a public one and send a report.
- Compare a value with yesterday's and only notify you when it changes. Built-in tasks start fresh each time; a ClickRuntime automation remembers what it saw last run.
- Post a digest to a Slack channel every weekday morning.
- Clean up or sync records between two services on a timetable.
How a scheduled task gets set up
You ask in plain language. The assistant restates what will happen, asks for anything missing (how often, your timezone, where results should go) and saves a draft. A draft does nothing on its own.
If the job needs a connection such as Slack, the assistant gives you a button for Slack's own consent screen. If it needs an API key for another service, it sends you to the ClickRuntime dashboard to save it as a secret. The key never goes into the chat.
When everything is ready, the assistant tells you what will run, how often, and which services it will contact, then turns it on and runs a test. Your AI assistant asks for your permission before each of those steps. After that the schedule is armed and you can close the chat.
Schedules you can ask for
Say it the way you would to a colleague. ClickRuntime understands every N minutes (5 minutes is the shortest interval), every hour at a given minute, every day at a time, weekdays at a time, and a specific day of the week. Local times use your timezone, and the next three run times are shown before it goes live.
Looking after it later
Ask your assistant "did my signups report run?" or "move it to 7am" and it will check the run history or change the schedule. You can do the same from the ClickRuntime dashboard, where each automation has its own page. From there you can pause or resume it, run it now, rename it, change the schedule, read the log of every run, and view the script under Advanced.