Admin directions — Tour Dash

Two directions for the admin

The command center has every number the business runs on, but it's laid out like an audit. These two versions are drawn for the person who owns the company and opens the page to find out how it's going and what needs them. The first one reads like a morning brief. The second works like an operator's console.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026Demo data, the admin accountLight theme shown, both inherit dark from tokens

What the current page gets right and where it strains

The September rebuild fixed the numbers. Fees come from the payments table, balances ignore the period picker, and every figure lives in one file. None of that changes here. Both directions below use the same functions in admin-metrics.ts.

The problem is presentation. The page is 6,840px tall at 1440 and 9,217px on a phone, and every figure gets the same card at the same weight. There are twenty-four tiles in all. The answer to "how's the business doing?" is "Fees earned, $279.62", and it sits in the fourth tile row, below four attention cards. Each of those cards opens with a paragraph explaining why it exists, which you stopped needing the second time you read it. Nothing is compared with anything, so $279.62 has no up or down. The fee ladder is a constant from a config file and takes a full card. The things you would act on (who to nudge, where to recruit, which checkout to chase) are buried in tables with no action attached.

A · The Brief puts one sentence and one number at the top, a short list of things that need you with a button on each, and moves the rest behind tabs. B · The Console keeps everything on screen but gives the admin its own navigation, a live activity stream, a supply-and-demand table that tells you where to recruit, and a search that opens anyone's full record in a drawer.

What	Who	Age
Checkout never paid · $75 Open house host, Summit	Marcus Ellery	2d	Email
Refund · $90 Buyer showing, Short Hills	Alicia Moreno	11d	Mark seen
Applicant waiting Open house host, 90 Forest Dr	Tomas Vidal	2d	Nudge
2 applicants waiting Inspection, Hillside · Appraisal, Central	Dana Whitfield	3d	Nudge
9 open jobs, no applicants Short Hills 4 · Millburn 2 · 3 others	—	2d	See where

What

Who

Age

Checkout never paid · $75

Open house host, Summit

Marcus Ellery

Refund · $90

Buyer showing, Short Hills

Alicia Moreno

11d

Mark seen

Applicant waiting

Open house host, 90 Forest Dr

Tomas Vidal

Nudge

2 applicants waiting

Inspection, Hillside · Appraisal, Central

Dana Whitfield

Nudge

9 open jobs, no applicants

Short Hills 4 · Millburn 2 · 3 others

—

See where

Market	Open now	Applicants a job	Vendors within 10 mi	Fill rate	Our fees
Short Hills, NJ	7	0.4	2	25%	$81.50
Millburn, NJ	4	0.5	1	20%	$25.06
Maplewood, NJ	3	1.3	3	50%	$57.06
Summit, NJ	2	2.0	4	50%	$83.22

Market

Open now

Applicants a job

Vendors within 10 mi

Fill rate

Gap

Our fees

Short Hills, NJ

0.4

25%

$81.50

Millburn, NJ

0.5

20%

$25.06

Maplewood, NJ

1.3

50%

$57.06

Summit, NJ

2.0

50%

$83.22

Side by side

Question	Current	A · The Brief	B · The Console
What it's for	Auditing every figure	A morning check: how's it going, what needs me	Running the marketplace for an hour
First thing the eye lands on	"Applicants waiting more than 48 hours"	"Tour Dash kept $279.62, up 18%"	Find anyone, then the six figures
Page height at 1440	6,840px	About one screen on Overview; tabs for depth	About one screen per section
Phone	9,217px	About 1.5 screens	About 1.5 screens per chip
Figures on the first screen	Zero (it opens on attention cards)	Four, each compared with the prior period	Six, each with a sparkline
Acting on an item	Leave the page, find the person	One button per item	One action per row, or open the person
Looking someone up	Scroll to Records, pick a tab, scan	Still Records (People tab)	⌘K, then a drawer with their whole record
Where to recruit	Inferred from the markets table	Three markets in the rail	A full supply-and-demand table
New functions needed	—	Prior-period deltas, month pace, vendors-near-market, action handlers	All of A's, plus an activity stream, the person drawer and search
New data needed	—	None. Email and phone are already on profiles; location and radius are too	None. The stream is built from the created_at columns the admin already reads
Build cost	—	Low to medium. It mostly reorganizes the page, plus deltas and actions	Medium to high. Admin nav, a stream, search, a drawer and the supply table
Biggest risk	—	Tabs hide things. A problem on the Payouts tab has to show up in Needs you or it won't be seen	A lot of screen to maintain for one person. The stream can become something you watch instead of work

Recommendation

A · The BriefBuild this

You own the business, you don't staff it. What you need most days is the number, whether it's moving, and the four things only you can clear. A shows that in one screen on any device and keeps every existing figure a tab away. It's also the cheaper build, because most of it is the current page rearranged.

B · The ConsoleTake the drawer

Find anyone and the person drawer are the best idea on this board. Bring them into A: ⌘K from any tab, with every name in Needs you and Today opening the drawer. Build the full console later, when someone other than you is running the queue every day.

Either wayNon-negotiables

Numbers still come from admin-metrics.ts, and money stays in cents until money() formats it. Balances ignore the period picker. Status chips never use amber. The header's Get coverage stays the one amber, and figures are compared rather than just stated. Vendor, not contractor. Sentence case, Inter, the locked title scale.

Two directions for the admin

What the current page gets right and where it strains

Current · as it ships

Direction A · The Brief

Direction B · The Console

Side by side

Recommendation