Priced before it runs. Signed when it lands.
Everything a tracker keeps, and what it never could: for every request, the price before it runs, what it was worth, who or what built it, what it actually took, and a signed receipt. Each one closes its estimate and makes the next one better.
SSO redirect loop on the Acme tenant
briefAcme admins loop between login and the tenant picker. Done: an admin signs in once and lands on the dashboard. Smallest: the redirect only.
- 2:14 pmSamantha requested it from Claude · spec.md, prototype.html attached
- 2:15 pmSized M · $4–11 · 20–55 min · 81% from 12 rows in auth/sso
- 2:15 pmRouted to Jake · Sonnet 5 · now · owns SSO, 62% headroom
- 2:49 pmPR #1187 merged · CI green first try · +212 −38
- 2:49 pm31 min · $5.20 · in band · signed ed25519 · Samantha told in her thread
- requested by
- Samantha · product
- worth
- high · Acme renewal
- size
- M · $4–11
- seat
- Jake
- model
- Sonnet 5
- actual
- 31 min · $5.20
- receipt
- verified
- Title and description
- Status and assignee
- Points someone guessed
- A link to the PR
- The brief, from the conversation that asked for it
- What it is worth, and who said so
- A price and time band before anyone starts
- The seat and model that built it, and why
- What it actually took, and a signed receipt
Size it before it runs. A letter to glance at, a band behind it.
/sled estimate in Claude Code, "size this" in a conversation, or nothing at all: a spec saved to the repo and a request filed from intake are sized on their own. Story points died when the volume rose and t-shirt sizes are the same guess in fewer letters, so the size here is derived, never typed, and calibrated from your own actuals per task type, per model, per repo.
M is the glance; $4–11 · 20–55 min is the truth. The letter comes from the band, so nobody argues about points in a planning meeting again.
Which model fits comes from first-try CI pass, rework and parked-on-question rates for this task type in your record.
A spend cap rides on every estimate. An overnight job stops there; a session at the wall is told what is left.
Every actual moves the next band. The share of estimates landing in band is on the roll-up, for the workspace, never per person.
The receipt: what came back, who built it, signed.
When the PR merges or the overnight job lands, the row gets its receipt: minutes, model or person, cost, and a signature over the job, the outputs and the time with the workspace key. Anyone with the public key checks it locally. Which model built something is a fact, not a claim, in a compliance review or a retro. The estimate it came from closes, and the next size is a little better.
Work done on a seat carries minutes, model and seat credits; work done on the platform key carries dollars. The three rails stay named apart in the record too.
SLEDS-Source: ENG-482 · spec §3 · the board Worth: high · $5k–20k · Acme renewal SLEDS-Estimate: $4–11 · 20–55 min · Fable fits · 81% · cap $20 SLEDS-Seat: now · Fable · jake@ · seat quota SLEDS-Actual: 34 min · $7 · fable-5.1 SLEDS-Attest: ed25519 · 2026-09-11T14:02Z · verified → ENG-482 moved to Done · est → actual on the row
Value in flight, landed, waiting. Cost fourth.
The same record, one zoom out. Leads see where work is piling up and what it cost.
| area | what is happening | worth | cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| billing | 4 waiting on review · 2 days median | $48k waiting | — |
| exports | 2 at a wall · policy: hold | $26k · resets thu 9:00 | — |
| auth | 6 in flight · 4 on agents | $31k in flight | $140 so far |
| platform | 9 landed this week · all receipted | $35k landed | $180 |
| unvalued | 5 rows with no worth stated | ask the filer | — |
What a "3-point" ticket actually cost.
Estimates against actuals, across agents, models and people, per task type, per repo. It is the dataset nobody upstream can build, it gets more valuable with every model release, and it is yours. Including the rows from our own pull requests.
This week on the sled illustrative landed 47 rows · $212k worth · $1,140 cost in band 78% of sizes · calibration moving up overnight 19 rows at half price · $71 saved walls 12 hit · 12 priced · 0 waited review billing is the queue · 2 days median unvalued 5 rows · ask the filer
Know what anything costs again.
Request an invite. Your first estimates close on your first merges.