dash-b · Use cases · Summaries
The week, the month, the year — said in numbers you can hand over.
The report somebody rebuilds by hand every Monday morning is a board that builds itself. Make it once, put it at a link, and Monday morning stops containing that hour.
Ready to open
Eight ways to see the whole picture
A summary is a design decision: what earns a tile and what doesn't. These eight open as real boards — steal the one your Monday deserves.
The week before the week starts: what happened, what's due, what needs a decision.
Open this board The weekly wrapSeven days compressed to one screen — the wins, the dips, and the one number that moved.
Open this board Month in numbersEvery figure that matters and none that don't — the month, framed.
Open this board Every project, one lineAll of it on one table: status, owner, next step. Scroll less, know more.
Open this board Money in, money outRevenue against cost, month against month — the only argument-settler that works.
Open this board Year so farThe whole year as a heatmap — effort you can see, gaps you can't unsee.
Open this board Board packThe meeting deck that is already made — numbers current the second the meeting starts.
Open this board The KPI wallThe big screen in the hallway: how we're doing, no login required.
Open this boardType it, and see the numbers land
Say what the summary should say
Pick one of these, or type what you have to hand over on Monday — and watch the board build itself. The shapes are the real widgets; the numbers are missing because they are not yours yet.
The Monday board
Four numbers, one chart, one sentence about what changed. Current the moment anybody opens it, which is the one thing a slide deck can never be.
Have your Monday morning back.The report that was rebuilt fifty-two times a year, built once.
Nobody should rebuild the same report fifty-two times
Export, paste, fix the chart, notice the total is wrong, do it again. Somewhere in your week there is an hour that produces a document that was already produced last week in the same shape.
Make that shape once as a board. It reads the same sources, does the same arithmetic and is correct on Monday without anybody being awake for it.
Against what — last week, last month, last year
Revenue of a hundred and eighty thousand is not information until it sits next to the same week last year. Put the comparison on the tile rather than in somebody's memory, and the board stops being a scoreboard and starts being an argument.
Week, month and year at once is normal here: it is three tiles, not three reports.
A link is current; an attachment is a photograph of the past
The moment a deck is sent it is out of date, and everybody who has it has a different version. A published board is one address, always showing what is true now, and whoever opens it needs no account to do so.
If somebody genuinely needs a file, export the board as a standalone page — it works with the internet off, and it still looks like the thing you made.
The chart shows what happened; somebody still has to say why
A summary that is only numbers makes every reader do the interpreting, and half of them get it wrong. One text tile with a sentence in it — up eleven per cent, the new shop opened, two late deliveries — is worth more than a fourth chart.
The AI generator can draft that sentence from the board if you want a starting point. It answers with a change you can look at before you accept it; it never quietly rewrites your page.
Make it once; the year's worth is copies of it
Everything in dash-b is a setup, and setups nest, merge and copy. The monthly board is the weekly one with wider tiles. The annual one is the monthly with twelve bars instead of four. You are not building reports; you are keeping one and varying it.
Designing costs nothing. Publishing at a link and keeping it in sync is what a plan is for.