Operations dashboards
The business already produces the numbers. They are just scattered across a job app, a bank feed, four spreadsheets and three people's heads. A dashboard is what happens when they are put back together and kept live.
Fig A · The shape of the thing: one readout strip, the money trend, and the leak report, one screen
Drive one
Dash 01 · live · fictional businessBelow is not a screenshot. Each of these five boards is running live inside this page: pick one, work its filters, open its panels, watch the numbers agree with the clock. Five fictional businesses, five different screens. The code is what we ship.
Dash 01 · Corridor Freight · truck logistics · the corridor drawn as the live map, gauges, a slot-mapped trailer, ETA derived from the clock
Fig B · Embedded live demonstrations · all data invented and internally consistent · scrolling inside the frame scrolls the board
Open the Corridor Freight fleet board full screenWhat goes on it
Yours will differHow it's built
Fed, not typedThe dashboard is fed by the systems you already run: the job platform, Xero or MYOB, bank feeds, timesheets, even a spreadsheet if that is where the data lives today. Each source lands in one data model, on infrastructure you control, and the screen reads from that.
Where a source can push events, the numbers move in seconds. Where it can only be polled, they move in minutes. Either way, nobody types a number into the dashboard. Every tile drills through to the records behind it, so a strange number is two clicks from its cause.
- Any screen. Office monitor, phone, workshop TV. It is a fast, plain web app, not an installed program.
- Your infrastructure. The data model and the app live on hosting you own. Turning us off does not turn it off.
- Exports stay possible. Anything on screen can land in a spreadsheet, because sometimes a spreadsheet is the right tool.
What it replaces
The weekly assemblyThe weekend spreadsheet assembly, the Monday "where are we at" meeting that runs on memory, and the quick questions that interrupt whoever holds the numbers in their head. The information stops being a chore someone performs and starts being a place everyone looks.
Asked every time
Common questionsOur data is a mess. Does that sink it?
No, it changes the first fortnight. Dirty data is normal; the build starts by agreeing what the source of truth is for each number and cleaning on the way through. The dashboard then becomes the thing that keeps it clean, because a wrong number is suddenly visible.
How live is live?
Per source. Systems with webhooks or APIs update in seconds to a minute. Bank data moves at the speed banks move. The refresh age is printed on the screen so nobody has to wonder.
We only have spreadsheets. Too early for this?
Spreadsheets are a fine starting source; many builds begin there. The dashboard reads them where they sit, and sources can be upgraded behind it later without changing the screen people already trust.