Watching
Watching your exocorp
Seeing what your exocorp is doing without getting in its way. Where to look on a daily basis, what to scan for, when to dig deeper.
The daily check-in
A useful daily rhythm for a running exocorp is about five minutes. The Overview page in the operator portal gives you the four things worth scanning:
- Live agents — Who’s working right now, grouped by team. If something’s been running for a long time, it’s worth knowing.
- Heartbeats — Scheduled obligations that should fire on a clock. A heartbeat that’s been failing is the company telling you something is consistently broken.
- Teams with their health — Healthy, degraded, or unhealthy. A degraded team has something stressed; an unhealthy team has multiple problems compounding.
- Budget pressure — Overall budget bar plus the three most-pressured sub-budgets. Tells you if the company is running hot financially.
What to look at depending on what you're checking
- “Did anything need me?” — The Inbox. Approvals, failed runs, waiting work, budget alerts — merged into one queue.
- “What's actually in flight?” — The Work view. Every work item across the exocorp, filterable by state and team.
- “What's been shipping?” — The Work view, filtered to Completed. Or ask the CEO for a summary — see Asking questions.
- “What does my company know that it didn't yesterday?” — The Knowledgebase. New reviews, new doctrine, new summaries.
- “Where is the money going?” — Settings → Budgets, or any team’s detail page for per-team breakdown.
- “Who acted on what, when?” — The audit trail. For platform-level actions, the admin landing. For per-exocorp actions, the work item’s history surfaces every run and every decision.
The right cadence
For most operators settling into running an exocorp, the rhythm that works:
- Daily — Five-minute Overview + Inbox scan. Resolve anything that came up. Read any flagged status from the CEO.
- Weekly — Twenty-minute review. Skim the Work view (what shipped, what’s blocked), the team detail pages for any team that looked stressed during the week, the knowledgebase for any reviews you should know about.
- As-needed — When the CEO surfaces something, when an alert fires, when something feels off. The exocorp will pull you in when it needs to; you don’t need to pull yourself in routinely.
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