Before you promise a date, check your team’s capacity.

UnitDeck is for teams where the same people carry several projects and the ad-hoc requests on top, and a manager re-plans who does what every week. It shows this week and next per person in hours, and what any new request would do to them - before anyone says yes.

Four teams, one question

An urgent customer issue just landed. What does it do to the development schedule?

Every engineer's week is already on the screen: hours booked, hours available, what is due when. You enter the support request as roles and hours - say, 12 developer hours by Friday - and see each person's this week and next before and after, with the other work that is due in the same weeks.

The options are laid out side by side: take it as proposed, one week longer, another person with the same role, or hold. Each shows its own numbers. You choose; the decision and the numbers it was made on are kept with the request.

Standing work - a support rota, on-call - is held as hours per week, so an issue that lands inside the rota does not count twice.

How a week works

  1. Step 1

    Put the team in

    People, projects and this week's allocations - typed in, or imported from the spreadsheet or tracker you use today, with a link back to each original item.

  2. Step 2

    Read the week

    Each person's hours booked over hours available, this week and next, with the reasons: what is due, what is held for standing work, what nobody has confirmed lately.

  3. Step 3

    Decide before you promise

    Enter a request as roles and hours. See before and after for everyone it touches, pick an option with its numbers in front of you, apply it, and keep the decision.

What it is not

  • Not a timesheet. Nobody logs hours to be judged by them. People state what is left on their work when they choose to; that is the number the forecast trusts.
  • Not an optimizer. It never moves work on its own or ranks the options for you. It shows what each choice would read and you choose.
  • Not a replacement for your tracker. It takes a CSV, keeps a link to the original item, and answers the one question the tracker cannot: can we take this on.
  • Not a black box. Every figure says when it was computed, which version of the calculation, and what it could not see.

The pilot

Six weeks, your real people and projects, a call to set it up and one each fortnight to read the numbers together. Your data is stored in the United States and exported or deleted at your request. If after six weeks it has not changed a decision, we stop.

Which of these sounds like your week? (any that apply)

No card, no self-serve signup. We set the pilot up with you, on your data, and stop if it does not earn its place.

Before you promise a date - UnitDeck