Coffee, and the numbers that matter
Before you open the store, Maya has already read the numbers: yesterday against the same day last week, today's forecast, what is running low, anything anomalous — and one concrete suggestion. Two minutes to read, sent by email or SMS to exactly the people you choose.
Proactive, not another dashboard
Dashboards wait for you to remember them. The brief arrives — at your chosen time, respecting quiet hours, to verified recipients only. It is the difference between having data and being told.
What a brief contains
The headline (up or down, and why it might be), today's expected demand, low-stock flags before they become empty-shelf flags, open alerts worth a look, and a single suggestion — never a wall of metrics.
Owner-controlled distribution
Recipients verify by one-time code before anything is sent to them; cadence is daily or weekly per person; and the kill switch silences everything instantly.
Push beats pull, for one reason
Dashboards are honest tools that fail in a specific way: they wait. The morning a number goes wrong is exactly the morning nobody opens the dashboard, because that morning is busy. A brief that arrives does not depend on remembering.
The design constraint follows from that: it has to be short enough to read while the coffee is still hot. One headline, today's expectation, what is running low, and a single suggestion — not a wall of metrics that trains people to skim past it.
Distribution is a permission, not a mailing list
Business numbers going out by email and SMS is a data-exposure decision, so recipients verify by one-time code before anything reaches them, cadence is set per person, and quiet hours are respected. The kill switch silences every brief instantly.
That means a manager can receive the stock lines without the revenue lines being sprayed at whoever was once added to a list — the same principle the permission tree applies inside the product.