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Ways to use Butler

By Omer Sella, Agent Herder · June 7, 2026

Most AI assistants require you to download a new app, create another account, and learn a new interface. Butler is a chat in Telegram. You ask for things the way you would ask a person, and it goes and does them across the accounts you have connected.

Here is what people actually use it for.

Email triage

The most common use by a wide margin. Butler reads your inbox so you do not have to open it.

Try: "What came in overnight that actually matters?" · "Summarise the thread with the landlord" · "Draft a polite no to the sponsorship email"

Calendar

Finding time is tedious and Butler is patient. It can read your schedule, move things, and tell you what is coming.

Try: "What does tomorrow look like?" · "Move my 3pm to Thursday" · "Find an hour this week for the dentist"

Files

Searching Drive by filename rarely works, because you remember what a document said, not what it was called.

Try: "Find the contract we signed with the design agency" · "What was in the Q2 deck?"

Tasks and the tools you already use

Butler connects to hundreds of tools through our integrations partner, so it can act in the places your work already lives.

Try: "Add a task to the launch board" · "What is still open on the Kape hours board?" · "Any new issues on my repo?"

Why a chat instead of an app

The whole point of an assistant is that it meets you where you are. If you have to remember to open a special app, you will not use it, and an assistant you do not use is worse than none.

Butler is a chat in Telegram, sitting alongside your other conversations. It is a message away, which is the only interface that has ever really worked for asking someone to do something.

Where to start

Connect your email and calendar first. Those two cover most of what people ask for in the first week, and everything else can be added later as you find yourself wanting it.

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