Built this week: Oct 2

Time for a final teaser.

Last week was expertise: what the partner knows before you teach it anything. This week is about what it does with everything it knows. If you remember our sendout four weeks ago, we wrote that when Brickanta moves a step forward on its own, it tells you what it did and why. This is that step. This week's quality is initiative.

The best people on a project see what needs doing and get it moving. They also know which calls are theirs to make. In the new Brickanta, the partner works the same way.

It gets started without being asked. Connect your SharePoint or Dropbox folder and Brickanta starts reading. Once the files are in, the workflows begin on their own, so the review is already underway before anyone on the team has opened the project.

It keeps up as the project moves. Projects change constantly. New documents arrive, earlier ones are replaced, and something decided in spring can look different by autumn. The partner is built to keep track of what has shifted and what it might touch, so you hear about it while there is still time to act.

It knows when to hold back. Reading, comparing and preparing are things it does freely. Anything with lasting consequences, it brings to you first. Every step it takes on its own is visible, and you can adjust or undo it.

Initiative is where the other six qualities come together. Memory gives the partner something to act on. Direction gives it somewhere to aim. Expertise tells it what matters. Collaboration, transparency and customisation keep it working with your team, in plain sight and on your terms.

For seven weeks, we have shown you the pieces one at a time. Next week, you see them come together for the first time. Everything we built this summer, and everything our partners taught us along the way, in one new Brickanta.

Stay tuned,

The Brickanta team