The numbers you actually run on, from the systems you already have.
Not a reporting project. Point a board at the database, the spreadsheet and the payment account you are already using, and have the four numbers that matter on a screen by the end of the afternoon.
Ready to open
Eight businesses, eight boards
Restaurants, workshops, practices, your own product — each card opens a real design shaped for that trade, ready to wear your name.
Your own project's back office: signups, payments, uptime, the repo — run the thing you built from a board you designed.
Open this board Restaurant with bookingTonight's covers, the rota and the bookings — the pass, but for the whole restaurant.
Open this board Appointment practiceFor lawyers, doctors, notaries: the day's appointments, the week's calendar, and who's in the waiting room.
Open this board Car repair shopCars on the lift by VIN, parts, rates and the pickup queue — the workshop wall, working.
Open this board Salesman assistantThe funnel, the day's calls and what closes this week — a working day on one screen.
Open this board Small–mid companyThe whole company on one screen: money coming in, work going out, and who's doing what.
Open this board Creative agencyThe portfolio up top, the pipeline underneath — pretty enough for clients, honest enough for Mondays.
Open this board Rental companyWhat's out, what's due back, and at which rate — every asset earning or explaining itself.
Open this boardType it, and see the board build
Say what the business runs on
Pick one of these, or type the numbers you would quote from memory — and watch the board build itself. The shapes are the real widgets; the numbers are missing because they are not yours yet.
One screen that answers “how are we doing”
The four numbers you would quote from memory if somebody asked, kept current from the systems that already hold them, and readable from across a room.
Stop guessing how the month is going.The four numbers you run on, from the systems that already hold them.
You do not have to move anything to see it
Most reporting projects die in the six months before anybody sees a number, because the data had to be moved somewhere first. Nothing moves here. A tile reads the database where it lives, or the spreadsheet as it is, and draws the answer.
If the database is not reachable from the internet — which, if you are sensible, it is not — drop one PHP file beside it and the board reads through that instead. Nothing is opened up.
The accountant gets one board; the shop floor gets another
Publish the summary at a link and send it. Publish nothing and keep the board behind the VPN, where it will only answer requests coming from your own network — not because somebody typed a password, but because of the address the request came from.
Two different boards from the same data is normal here. A board is a setup, and setups nest, merge and get shared one at a time.
A number nobody has to ask for gets acted on
Put the board on any screen with a browser and leave it. It refreshes itself, it does not log itself out, and it is legible from across the room because you chose the type size yourself rather than accepting somebody's default.
A team that can see the number moves before the monthly report tells them it moved.
The three jobs that happen every morning become three tiles
Marking the invoice, reordering the thing that ran out, sending the reminder — a tile can do each of them, with the form already filled in from the row you were looking at. The work stops being a tour of four systems.
Reading and writing are deliberately different doors: a board only writes where you connected something that can write, and it always asks first.
You can leave with the thing you built
Export a board as a standalone page and it runs on your own server, or on a laptop with no internet. Take the designer itself and run it in-house if that is what your rules require.
This is worth saying plainly because it is the question every business asks last and should ask first: what happens if we stop paying? You keep what you made.