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Overview — the screen you start your day on.

The Overview is Mama's daily landing. It surfaces what's new (signals from overnight), what's pending (accounts you saved but haven't briefed), and what's next (the top 5 recommended to brief today). If you only open one Mama screen per day, open this one.

Time: 4 min·Updated: 2026-05-25·Audience: every Mama user, daily

TL;DR

Five blocks, in this order: Today's new signals → Recommended next 5 → Recent briefs → Saved-search alerts → Workspace activity. Each block is a card with a single primary action. Designed to take ~5 minutes to scan, which is the daily ritual Mama is built around.

01The 5-block layout

The Overview is intentionally simple. Five blocks, stacked. No tabs, no deep nav. The whole screen should be scannable in under 2 minutes and actionable in 5.

BlockWhat it showsPrimary action
1 · Today's new signalsSignals detected overnight on your saved accounts + ICP-matched cold accountsBrief an account
2 · Recommended next 5Top-scoring accounts you haven't briefed yetBrief or skip
3 · Recent briefsLast 5-10 briefs from you or your teamRe-open / push to CRM
4 · Saved-search alertsNew matches against your saved searchesReview / brief
5 · Workspace activityWhat teammates have briefed / pushed in the last 24hAcknowledge / collaborate

02Today's new signals

The top block. Signals detected on your accounts in the last ~16 hours (overnight + early morning). Grouped by signal type with a count badge per type. Click any group to expand into the full signal cards.

Default sort: Combo signals first (where 2+ signals fired on the same account), then by signal strength, then by ICP score of the account. This means the highest-leverage signals always appear at the top — even on a busy day, the first 30 seconds gives you the best targets.

Empty stateIf you're new or quiet, this block shows the "Why is this empty?" explainer with actions to expand your saved accounts or relax your ICP rubric.

03Recommended next 5

Five accounts Mama thinks you should brief today. Ranked by a composite of ICP score + signal freshness + archetype match + untouched-ness (accounts your team hasn't recently emailed).

Each card shows: company name, ICP score (out of 100), the strongest active signal, and a one-sentence "why this one" rationale. Two buttons: Brief now · Skip for today. Skip moves it down the queue for ~7 days.

04Recent briefs

The last 5-10 briefs from anyone on your team. Useful for two reasons: (1) you can re-open a brief you read 2 days ago without searching for it, and (2) you can see what teammates are working on without asking.

Each row shows the account name, who briefed it, when, and the brief's status (read / pushed to CRM / shared / archived). Click to re-open.

05Saved-search alerts

New matches against your saved searches. If you have a saved search for "Series B SaaS in NY with new VP Data hire," this block shows accounts that started matching that query in the last 24h.

Saved searches can have email or Slack alert preferences set per-search. The Overview block is the in-app fallback for any search without external alerting.

06Workspace activity

A timeline of what your teammates have done in Mama in the last 24h: briefs generated, pushed to CRM, archetype updates, ICP changes. Useful for awareness without being a notification firehose.

Click a row to jump to the underlying action (e.g., open the brief a teammate just pushed). You can mute teammate types you don't want to track — for example, hide marketing teammate activity if you only care about the sales team.

07The daily Overview ritual

Most-effective users have a 5-minute daily ritual on this screen:

  1. Scan Today's new signals — anything in the Combo group? Brief immediately.
  2. Brief one of the Recommended 5 — the top-ranked one usually.
  3. Check Recent briefs — did anyone on your team brief something you should also be aware of?
  4. Review Saved-search alerts — any new matches worth briefing?
  5. Close Mama — and don't open again until you have a specific need.

The ritual works because Mama is built to be a daily 5-minute touch, not a 6-hour-a-day workspace. The Overview is what enables that discipline.

08Common mistakes

Treating Overview as a feed to keep refreshing
Once-a-day, max. Refreshing every 30 minutes turns Mama into a distraction. Signals don't move that fast.
Skipping past Combo signals because they're rare
Combos are rare and high-leverage. When one appears, it's usually a P0 — don't let "I'll come back to it" become "I forgot." Brief immediately.
Ignoring the Recommended 5 because "I have my own list"
Your list is your saved-search outputs. The Recommended 5 are accounts that pass your ICP rubric but weren't in your saved searches yet. They're the highest-fit accounts you'd otherwise miss.
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