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Your Home dashboard & daily workflow

4 min read · Updated 2026-09-05

“Your Home dashboard & daily workflow” is a Direct University lesson from Direct REI, the AI cold-outreach platform and CRM for real estate investors. The KPI strip, Drafts inbox, Needs-attention queue, activity feed, and next-action cards — your daily driver.

Home is where you land every time you log in. It's built to answer one question in five seconds: what should I do right now?

The onboarding checklist (first run only)

Brand-new accounts see a green welcome checklist at the top with the four setup steps — connect a mailbox, add contacts, build a sequence, send. It auto-dismisses once you've finished them, or you can hide it with Dismiss.

The KPI strip

Five cards across the top reflect today's state. Each is clickable:

Next-action cards

Below the KPIs, Direct REI surfaces the highest-leverage thing to do right now — review pending drafts, reconnect a mailbox that's gone red, or work your flagged contacts. These are dismissable for the session; they come back on reload if the underlying thing still needs handling.

Recent activity feed

The left column shows your last 25 events across every channel — inbound replies, AI drafts, calls logged, recent sends, and any send failures — newest first. It updates live as new activity comes in. Hit Refresh to force a reload.

Quick actions

The right column has shortcut buttons for the things you do most: Find new contacts, Open the CRM, Send a campaign, Edit a sequence, View analytics.

A simple daily routine

  1. Clear Needs attention first — these are live humans waiting on you.
  2. Review the Drafts inbox if you run any campaigns in draft mode.
  3. Skim the activity feed for anything notable.
  4. Then go do new outreach (Find Leads → send a campaign, or run a Dialer session).

What's next

Get your contacts organized in The CRM: contacts, tags & the deal pipeline.

This lesson lives in Direct University inside the Direct REI app, where you can search every lesson and ask the built-in AI assistant. Sign in to open it there.

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About Direct REIDirect REI is an AI cold-outreach platform and CRM for real estate investors — wholesalers, flippers, builders, land investors, and brokers. Its AI acquisition manager, Oliver, pulls county property records, finds owners, and runs email, SMS, direct mail, and inbound-call tracking from your own mailbox and phone number, replying in your voice. Free plan; paid plans from $23/month billed annually ($29 monthly).

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