Nocturnal Post — Getting Started (Hosted)

Welcome! This guide is for hosted clients — we run the servers, you just connect your team. Ten minutes from sign-up to your first briefing. (Self-hosting the open-source version? Use the Self-Hosted Setup Walkthrough instead.)

Part 1 — Request access

1. Go to nocturnalpost.com and click Request beta access.
2. Fill in your name, work email, and team size — tell us a sentence about

how your team works so we can help you set up well.

1. We create your tenant (your team's private workspace) and reply with a

sign-in link.

Your tenant is tied to your email domain. Everyone who signs in with
an email at your domain joins the same workspace automatically — and is
isolated from every other tenant. Users on other tenants can never see
your data or trigger your syncs.

Part 2 — Sign in and connect Outlook

1. Open your sign-in link and choose Sign in with Microsoft.
2. Approve the permissions: read the folders you pick, send briefings on

your behalf, post to a Teams channel if you configure one. Nothing else.

1. Your mailbox connects automatically and the Inbox is selected for

syncing. First sync starts within a minute.

You can change which folders are watched any time under
Mailboxes → your mailbox → Folders. Most teams keep Inbox only.

Part 3 — What happens to your email

Every new message is classified on arrival (automatically, no rules to write):

Work items appear on the Items page and feed your briefings. You can assign any item to a teammate from the Items page dropdown.

What we store: message metadata (subject, sender, recipients, dates) and the first ~500 characters of the body — enough to classify and search, never the full mailbox. It all ages out on the retention schedule (the Vault deletes it on schedule; work items are kept as your to-do list). Full details on the Privacy & Data page.

Part 4 — Your briefings

You'll receive two briefs a day by default, weekdays:

A weekly Moon Brief summarizes the week every Friday morning.

• Delivered by email to every active team member
• Also posted to your Teams channel once it's configured (next part)
• Test any briefing right now: Briefings page → choose a brief →

Deliver now — nothing waits for tomorrow to verify setup

Part 5 — Set up your Teams channel (recommended)

1. In Teams: go to your channel → ⋯ → Get link to channel → copy.
2. In Nocturnal Post: Rules page → Teams Delivery Channel →

paste the URL → save. We parse everything server-side; you never need to decode it.

1. Send a test: Briefings page → Deliver now on any brief and

watch it post.

The connected user needs to be able to post in that channel (typically
they're a member of the team that owns it).

Part 6 — Rules: instant alerts, not just briefings

Briefings are on a schedule; rules fire the moment a matching email arrives. Create them on the Rules page: name the rule, pick a condition, pick an action.

Four rules worth setting up on day one:

1. VIP client escalation — condition Sender domain = your biggest

client's domain → action Post to Teams. Their emails ping the channel instantly instead of waiting for the morning brief.

1. Urgent anything — condition Category is urgent → Email me.

A safety net that catches high-importance mail outside briefings.

1. Billing keywords — condition Subject contains invoice →

Email me (your AP person's address). Nothing ages past payment terms.

1. Regulator / watchdog senders — condition Sender domain = the

regulator's domain → Post to Teams. Compliance-critical mail is never "missed the briefing."

Part 6.5 — Mail security, automatically

While briefings cover what needs attention, Nocturnal Post also watches for threats between briefings:

• Authentication checks — every message's SPF/DKIM/DMARC verdicts

are parsed; failures are flagged.

• Impersonation — a sender mimicking your domain or a watched

client domain (typos, lookalike TLDs, Cyrillic characters) is flagged and, when confident, becomes a high-priority work item automatically.

• BEC protection — executive impersonation, urgent wire/gift-card

language from unknown senders.

• Mail Security section — your Dawn Brief lists flagged messages

so the team sees what was caught without checking anything.

If you're the tenant owner, the Team page shows your monthly service report link — messages processed, security flags caught, briefings delivered: your proof of value.

Part 7 — Invite your team

1. Teammates sign in at nocturnalpost.com with **their own Microsoft

accounts (same email domain as you). They appear on the Team** page automatically.

1. On the Team page you can:

• Turn each person's briefing email on/off
• See who's active and how the monthly price tapers as you grow

1. Assign work items to teammates from the Items page — the evening

brief shows who's carrying what overnight.

Part 8 — Billing: who owns the tenant

Your tenant starts unclaimed — everyone on your domain shares the workspace during beta at no cost. When paid plans activate:

• The first person to start paying takes management of the tenant

(billing, admin settings, ownership).

• Teammates who join later are covered by that plan.
• The price tapers as you grow: **$10/mo for the first user, +$5 for the

second, +$2 for every user after** — a 2-person team pays $15/mo total.

• If the owner ever leaves, ownership can be transferred on the Team page.

Details on the Pricing page.

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