Dashboard

The dashboard is a personal, configurable view of your work. Runnit Today sits at the top as a full-width panel, and below it you can arrange built-in panels and published Runnit Studio widgets. The layout is saved for your user account.

Runnit Today

Runnit Today reads your real work (tasks, mentions, schedule, and project signals) and composes a personal briefing up to twice a day, at about 6:00 am and 1:00 pm in your organisation’s timezone. The widget opens instantly with the most recent briefing and updates in place when a fresh one lands. A small “refreshing” note shows while the next version is being prepared.

The widget has two halves:

a brand-coloured panel on the left with today’s date and week number, a greeting, and a one-line summary of your day; and
the Ru suggests feed on the right, where Ru lines up the work that matters most.

The afternoon briefing takes the morning’s progress into account, so work you finished before lunch is acknowledged rather than repeated. When Ru is actively working on something you handed over, the left panel also shows a “Ru has started: …” line, so you can see it without opening the chat.

The Ru suggests feed

The feed shows up to five rows chosen from your real work: tasks due today, overdue tasks, unread mentions, projects at risk, and signals relevant to your role. Each row has a coloured status dot, a title that links to the task or project, a short detail line, and a small status label on the right: Due today, Overdue, Risk, Ru is on it, On it, Done, or Tip.

The most urgent work leads the feed: the most overdue and critical priority tasks come first, so the top row is always a sensible place to start.

On a busy day, View all suggestions expands the feed beyond the first five rows. On a quiet day the feed fills with Tip rows instead: things worth trying, such as handing Ru a first draft, asking Ru to find something, adding brand files to the library, starting the next project from a brief, or checking who on the team could use a hand.

Act on a suggestion

Select a row to expand it into action buttons:

Mark done completes the task immediately.
Move the date opens a small date picker and moves the task, when you have schedule authority. Without it you see Ask to move the date instead; see the next section.
Message drafts, for example “On it today” or “Post an update”. The drafted message always shows its exact text first, and Send it posts it as a comment from you. Nothing is sent without that tap.
The black Ru button hands the work to Ru with a prepared brief; see Hand work to Ru.
Not now dismisses the row for the rest of the current briefing cycle.

Progress is remembered. Marking something done, sending an update, or handing work to Ru shows on the widget straight away, on every device you’re signed in on.

Move the date, or ask the owner

Task dates are commitments other people plan around, so moving a task’s planned dates needs schedule authority: the project owner, a project admin, or someone with both task-wide update and schedule management access. This is the same rule as the rest of Runnit; see Updating Tasks.

Everyone else sees Ask to move the date. Pick the date you want and Runnit posts your ask on the task, with the project owner notified. The date only changes when the owner or another schedule manager approves by moving it.

Organisations can turn the ask option off through their planning policy (it is on by default). When it’s off, the option doesn’t appear at all.

Hand work to Ru

Suggestions with the black Ru button carry a prepared brief: what Ru should read and exactly what it should produce. Selecting one opens the Ru chat panel with the brief shown as a proposal card:

Send to Ru sends the brief exactly as written;
Edit first moves the text into the message box so you can adjust it before sending; or
discard the draft and nothing happens.

Ru only starts when the message is sent, grounded in your organisation’s AI directives. Ru produces drafts for you to review, never finished work.

Ask Ru anything

The Ask Ru anything… box on the panel opens the Chat Assistant with whatever you type. Press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K on Windows) anywhere on the dashboard to focus the box. Ru already knows which suggestions are on your widget, so you can refer to them directly, for example “reschedule the second one”.

When a new briefing is written

Writing a briefing uses AI credits, so Runnit only writes one when it would actually say something new:

Someone has to be there. If nobody has opened Runnit in your organisation for a week, no briefings are written for them. Your briefing is prepared again as soon as you come back and open the dashboard.
Something has to have moved. If your work is exactly as it was at the last briefing (same tasks due, same overdue work, same risks, and nothing ticked off), the existing briefing stays. It is still accurate, so rewriting it would only spend credits to say the same thing. The greeting still changes from morning to afternoon.

Work becoming overdue counts as movement, and so does anything you do on the widget, so a normal working day still gets its afternoon briefing.

When AI credits run low

Runnit Today keeps working when your organisation’s AI credits fall below a safe level, or when no AI model is configured. It stops asking Ru to write the briefing and builds the feed itself instead, from the same real work:

your most overdue tasks, worst first, with the most overdue and highest priority leading;
what is due today;
projects drifting off their deadlines;
work you own that has gone quiet, and approvals sitting with clients; and
your setup journey, if your organisation is still being set up.

Everything you can do stays: mark done, move the date or ask the owner to, post an update, and open the project. The feed refreshes every time you open the dashboard rather than twice a day, so it is always current.

What changes is that nothing on the widget uses AI. The Ru buttons, the Ru tips, and the Ask Ru anything… box are hidden, so you are never offered work that cannot be paid for. The panel shows a quiet “Updates only” note, and administrators and owners also get a link to top up. Everything comes back on its own once credits are topped up. See AI Credits.

While your account is being set up

While your organisation is still being set up, the widget shows a setup journey instead of suggestions: a percentage ring, the next recommended step, and the remaining steps as a checklist. Completing the work anywhere in the app moves the percentage automatically; there is nothing to tick off by hand.

Members see only their personal steps: setting their role and adding a short bio.
Administrators and owners see the full journey: organisation library, brand assets, clients, client brand context, team, roles and bios, first project, tasks, and their own role.
If your organisation only works on its own brand, an administrator or owner can choose We only do internal work on the clients step. The client-related steps are then marked not applicable and counted as complete.
Done with setup on your terms? Choose I’m done here at the top of the journey to switch to the normal suggestions feed, even before every step is complete. This only affects your own view; other people in the organisation keep their journey until they finish or waive it themselves.

Tune the tone

Organisation administrators can edit the Today Widget Composition AI directive (today_widget.md) in the AI Directives collection under Admin > Organisation Library to tune the widget’s tone and emphasis. See AI Directives.

Built-in widgets

Below Runnit Today, the default layout contains:

Widget	What it shows
Capacity	Your assigned hours against capacity. The 100% baseline comes from your organisation’s daily capacity setting, matching the schedule planner. Tentative bookings from draft projects show as a hatched amber band, and the hover detail lists tentative hours separately. Select the chart to open today’s schedule.
My Tasks	Overdue and upcoming assigned work from the same list and due categories as the full Tasks page. Deleted and cancelled tasks don’t appear. Select a task to open the shared task editor through My Tasks, or open the full Tasks page from the panel.
Automations	Recent agent and automation jobs, including progress and status.
Project Activity	Recent changes and comments from projects associated with you. Routine automatic events, such as AI column fills, are left out; each project’s History tab still records them.

Only information available to your current organisation and access level is shown. The dashboard refreshes as tasks, projects, automation jobs, and project history change. Removing a task also removes it from Runnit Today and the My Tasks widget, so you don’t need to reload the browser.

When an administrator impersonates a teammate to check their experience, the dashboard shows that person’s own layout and data, custom Studio widgets included.

Customise the layout

Choose Edit dashboard in the global header to enter layout mode. You can:

drag widgets into a new order;
change each widget between extra-small, small, medium, and large sizes;
remove any widget, including Runnit Today and Capacity;
choose Add to place another built-in or published Studio widget; and
choose Reset to restore the default built-in layout.

Choose Save to persist the layout or Cancel to discard your draft.

Runnit Today stays full width in the first position while it’s on your dashboard, and can’t be moved or resized. It can be removed like any other widget and added back later.

Widgets pack tightly: a shorter widget lets the tiles below it move up, so mixed sizes fill the page without leaving large gaps.

If you remove every widget, the dashboard shows a calm “Enjoy the serenity” message rather than an error. Add widgets back any time with Edit dashboard.

Theme-aware Studio widgets

Custom widgets receive the current Runnit design tokens. Switching between light and dark mode recolours a widget in place, without reloading its content or losing its current state.

Email verification

If your email is not verified, a notice appears beneath the dashboard. Click Resend verification email in the notice and Runnit sends a verification link to your inbox. Open the link to verify your address; the link expires after 24 hours. Verifying your email unlocks collaboration tools and client-ready exports.

A verification email is also sent automatically when an account is first registered. It uses a responsive layout and includes a plain-text version. Organisation owners and admins can edit the subject, heading, body, and button label under Admin > Notifications > Email templates. An email sent before Runnit can identify the person’s organisation uses the Runnit default.

On smaller screens

Dashboard tiles stack into a single column when space is limited. The global header remains available for Edit dashboard, + New, and Chat; see Navigation & Quick Actions.