Thousand Cuts

Service 4 of 4 — heals: report

Stop rebuilding the Monday deck.

A dashboard that reads your work management data and reports on it — aging work in progress, stalled reviews, blown SLAs, workload by person. It flags the next cut while it's forming and tells the owner who can still fix it.

Book a teardown Bring last Monday's deck. We'll find it in your data.
Re: before / after

The same Monday, twice.

Before — manual
MON 08:30 AM producer exports four reports MON 09:10 AM pastes them into last week's deck MON 09:45 AM two numbers disagree. checks by hand MON 10:30 AM deck sent. already out of date WED 03:00 PM a project slips. nobody sees it FRI 05:00 PM escalation. it was in the data
After — watched Automated
08:30 AM pipeline read → 214 open items 08:30 AM 19 aging, 4 past SLA, 2 unowned 08:31 AM owners notified with their item list 08:31 AM weekly view current. no deck built WED 03:00 PM slip flagged on day one, not day nine FRI 05:00 PM nothing to escalate.

FIG. 1 — Same week, reported while it's still happening.

Re: how it works

Three steps, all logged.

Step 1 — Read

One view over every tool

Projects, tasks, reviews and time land in a single model, so a number means the same thing on Monday that it means on Thursday — and the same thing to you that it means to your client.

Step 2 — Watch

Thresholds, not impressions

Aging work, stalled reviews, SLA breaches and workload imbalance are checked continuously against limits you set, not eyeballed once a week by whoever built the deck.

Step 3 — Tell

The owner hears first

A flag goes to the person who can still fix it, with the specific items attached — not to a channel where everyone assumes someone else has it.

Re: proof

Running now, at a major retailer.

07:00 AM Snowflake sync → Workfront usage data 07:00 AM adoption + project health recomputed 07:01 AM dashboard current. nothing exported by hand.
500 users → one view

An admin audit dashboard for the Workfront team: 500 users and 300+ active projects watched from warehoused data — adoption, project health, and the charts native reporting can't draw.

Systemsin-house build · verified Jul 2026
Re: questions you'd ask

FAQ

Is this another dashboard nobody opens?

It works by notification rather than attendance. The views exist when you want them, but the flags go and find the owner whether or not anyone logs in that week.

Where does the data come from?

Your work management tool, plus your review and time systems if you have them. Whatever the tools already record is what gets reported — no parallel spreadsheet to maintain.

Can we keep the report we already send?

Yes. Most teams keep the exec view they've always sent and stop rebuilding it by hand — the same numbers, generated instead of assembled.

Re: next step

Get Monday back from the deck.

Book a teardown 30 minutes. We map your reporting and price the rebuild.