Working demo · decision HUD

What should your computer do next?

Most dashboards answer "what happened?" — a wall of metrics you have to interpret. This one answers a better question: where do you need to make a decision, what's the recommended default, and what does it cost you if it just sits?

You can't allocate compute you don't measure — but measuring isn't the point. Deciding is. The numbers exist to tell you what work to hand your computer next.

Today's Brief

Demo data · 0 open decisions · what needs a call, not every event
When ▾ Lane Decision Default move Risk if it sits ▾ Source · checked ✓
live connected source local file on disk missing not wired up yet
Exposes verification state before it asks for your trust.

Why this beats a usage dashboard

01

Decisions, not events.

A feed of everything that happened is work you still have to do. This shows only the rows that need a call — and pre-stages the call with a recommended default.

02

Risk is the forcing function.

Every row names what it costs you to ignore it. "Nothing happens if it sits" and "deal cools by Friday" are not the same item, and a usage chart can't tell them apart.

03

Trust is earned per-row.

Each decision shows its source and when it was last checked — live, local file, or missing. You see the provenance before you act, instead of trusting a number with no lineage.

The honest version of this isn't a human reading a dashboard. It's an agent reading the sources, surfacing only what needs a decision, proposing the default, and flagging the risk if it sits. The dashboard is just the part you can see.

The shift

Usage tracking

  • "You spent 4.2M tokens this week."
  • Pretty charts, log scales, a number that goes up.
  • Tells you what you did. You still have to figure out what it means.
  • Vanity metric in a trench coat.

Useful work

  • "Approve the infra renewal — default: monthly. Service lapses Friday."
  • One table, ranked by what changes a decision today.
  • Tells you what to do next, and what it costs to wait.
  • Measurement in service of allocation.