III The chest Ariadne scheduling & dispatch
Scheduling and dispatch, connected to the work record.
Ariadne is the Forge scheduling and dispatch product under development. Its intended job is to connect qualified work with scheduling decisions and the operating context those decisions need.
The person who would otherwise keep that calendar runs about $5,500 a month fully loaded. This is a drawer out of the software stack a shop assembles instead.
Not yet pricedscheduling and dispatch — in development
- StatusIn development
- GatingWeather-gated holds
- CustomerSchedule link, planned
Context and status
Drawer III of six. Scheduling and dispatch.
Nothing re-keyed. Nothing lost. Nobody guessing.
As designed, a signed job will route itself to the open crew slot. Where it cannot go out, it will say so, and say why.
| Crew | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crew A | Sandiare-roof · d.2/3 | Sandiare-roof · d.3/3 | Junipercrew A · 7:00 | ||
| Crew B | Mesa TIlow-slope | Mesa TIlow-slope | |||
| Crew C | Holdwind 40mph | ||||
| Svc |
- 4:12 PMSigned · Juniper Elementary
- 4:12 PMThreaded · Crew A, Friday 7:00, the first slot that fits
- 4:13 PMCustomer notified · live link, not a guess
Fig. I — The thread, as designed. A signed job will route itself to the open crew slot. The hold is the weather gate, and it is the only cell on this calendar doing its job by refusing.
Context and status
A week with a hold in it. That is the feature, not a gap in the demo.
Schedule, route, bill
Schedule
Signed work will block itself against the real crew calendar: durations, dependencies, daylight.
Route
Weather-gated holds and a live link are planned, so the customer is not left guessing and the crew does not double back.
Bill
The invoice will go when the work is done, off hours already in the record, not off a spreadsheet.
Context and status
Booked, routed, billed. The third one is where the money actually shows up.
A crew billing nothing is the most expensive line on the P&L
A crew billing nothing while the GC slips two weeks costs more than any tool on this page saves, and it never appears on a report you own. It shows up a month later as a number you cannot explain.
Ariadne exists so it never happens quietly.
Ariadne doesn't carry a published price yet — she's deliberately absent from pricing until she's ready. Forge Core and every other product are custom quoted for your company. What Core is.
Forge comes with Sabina; Ariadne remains in development. Its proposed scheduling capabilities do not establish what Sabina can do. Supported work and specialist tools need a written scope. How the service works.
Context and status
The expensive failure is the one nobody reports.