Surveying.
Surveying land, and reviewing your holdings. Everything you have taken on, everything arriving, what it is worth in bushels, and what the farm is going to do about it between now and next August.
What one member is holding, right now.
Placeholder data on a real structure. Swapping in a member record means replacing the arrays, not the layout, which is the whole point of building it this way round.
What you hold
Patch B2 — Curdle Hill, winter wheatDrilled 14 October · 25kg of flour at harvest Growing Cask #0231 — the quarter, first-fill American oak125 litres · filled at 63.5% · out in 2029 In bond The Larder BoxMonthly · next dispatch the 3rd · skip by the 28th Active Foster — one ewe, through lambingFrom January · wool, a name and the updates Lambing Ploughing On — £15 a monthSince March 2024 · renews on the 12th Paid Hoarding — 4,180 bushelsEarned across the shop, the brewery and the pub £41.80Next through the door
Track itThe year ahead
- Late SeptemberThe patch grid reopens, with first refusal on B2
- Early NovemberCask #0231 has its annual sample drawn and a note written
- Late JanuaryLambing starts. The ewe camera goes live and does not go off
- Early MayFlag leaf on B2, and the most expensive spray of the year
- Mid AugustHarvest, and about six hours of notice before the combine moves
- Early SeptemberThe first flour posting, in three lots rather than one sack
This is a demonstration build. It takes no payment, holds no member records, and every figure on this screen is illustrative.
Why this is the hardest page on the estate.
Everything else here is a page. This is a query. It has to ask the farm shop what you bought, the brewery what you drank, the pub what you booked, the plotting ledger what is growing and the bonded warehouse what is maturing — and then present six answers from five systems as though they had always been one thing.
None of those systems was built to be asked. The shop runs on one platform, Hawkstone on another, the pub on a booking system that predates both, and the cask record on a spreadsheet that a bonded warehouse emails once a quarter. There is no shared customer identifier anywhere in that estate, which means the first job is not a dashboard at all. It is deciding that the person buying a case of lager and the person who queued for jam in April are the same person.
We do that on email address, then on a confirmed phone number, then on a card fingerprint, in that order, and we show you every match we made on Your Data so you can tell us when we have got it wrong. We have got it wrong. Twice, that we know of.
- 5
- systems read
- 3
- matching signals
- 60s
- target to a fresh balance
Everything in Surveying.
Hoarding
One balance in bushels that earns and burns across the shop, the brewery and the pub.
Boasting
Sixteen marks. None of them is worth anything, and that is deliberate.
Lording It
Parish level only, never national, and here is the argument for that.
Nagging
Twelve events, three channels, quiet hours and one exception.
On Its Way
Where the parcel is, and how far off the harvest is.
Suggesting
What the engine uses, and the six things it refuses to use.
Pointing Your Phone
Hold it up at a field and it names the crop, the variety and the stage.
Scanning a Label
A can or a jar, a batch code, and the film of where it came from.
Getting Around
WCAG 2.2 AA, captions, audio description, BSL and a dyslexia mode.
Where each number on the dashboard comes from.
| On the screen | Read from | How fresh |
|---|---|---|
| Your patch and its stage | The plotting ledger | Within a minute of the agronomist filing it |
| Your cask and its years | The bonded warehouse return | Quarterly, and dated on the page |
| Your box and the next dispatch | The subscription platform | Hourly |
| Your fostered animal | The livestock record | Daily, and immediately during lambing |
| Your membership and its renewal | The membership system | Live |
| Your bushel balance | All three tills, reconciled | Sixty seconds is the target, twenty-four hours is the guarantee |
One account, three tills.
The farm shop, the brewery and the pub have never known that they share customers. A person can spend four hundred pounds a year across all three and be invisible to each of them, which is a strange way to run three businesses with the same name over the door.
Surveying is the fix, and Hoarding is the reason anybody would bother signing in for it. Earn in any of the three, spend in any of the three, and see the whole lot on one screen. It is not a clever idea. It is the obvious one, and nobody has built it.
Four things worth knowing before you sign in.
Signing in
One account across all three businesses. No separate brewery login.
Nagging
Capped at four a week, and nothing between nine at night and eight in the morning.
Your data
Downloadable in one file, deletable in two taps.
Bushels
One hundred bushels is one pound off. They have no cash value and never will.
What people actually ask about this screen.
The four questions the dashboard gets most.
No. Loitering is free and gets you the dashboard, the wallet, the badges and your parish. The paid tiers change the discount and the access windows, not what you can see about yourself.
Because the bonded warehouse files a return quarterly and we would rather show you a dated real number than a fresh invented one. The date is on the row.
Entirely, in one switch, and hiding it also removes you from everybody else’s. There is no half-out.
Nothing on this build takes payment anywhere. Every balance, holding and total on this page is illustrative.
Start with the free tier.
Loitering costs nothing, gets you all of this, and there is nothing to cancel.
