Use case
Random spot-check reminders for QA, audits, and compliance
An audit everyone can see coming measures how well people prepare, not how things actually are. Untimely emails you (or your team) a spot-check prompt at random times inside a window — review a random support ticket, verify a backup restore, check one door, sample one deploy — so what you inspect is the steady state.
Random sampling is the point
Predictable checks create predictable compliance. Random timing is the standard tool for honest sampling — the same reason inspections and drug tests are unannounced. Three prompts scattered across a month beat one fixed monthly review.
Email or webhook, your pick
Email actions carry the checklist to a person; webhook actions can open a ticket in your tracker instead, so the spot check arrives as work items.
A record you can show
Every trigger is stored in the event's run history, which doubles as evidence that the checks actually happened — useful for compliance narratives.
Try it
Create it with one API call (create an API key in dashboard settings first):
curl -sS "https://untimely.app/api/events" \
-H "authorization: Bearer $UNTIMELY_API_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-H "idempotency-key: monthly-spot-checks-001" \
-d '{
"name": "Monthly random spot checks",
"interval": 30,
"frequency": 3,
"betweenTimeStart": "14:00",
"betweenTimeEnd": "22:00",
"daysOfWeek": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
"actionType": "EMAIL",
"content": "Spot check: pick one item from the audit list and verify it end to end. Reply-all with what you found.",
"contentType": "static"
}'FAQ
Questions about this use case
Can different prompts go to different people?
Create one event per prompt or per owner — each event has its own window, action, and history.
Can the prompt itself vary?
Yes — set contentType to "gpt" and email content is generated fresh each run.
How many checks per cycle?
frequency supports 1–5 triggers per interval; interval runs up to 365 days.