A daily briefing that remembers — and one tip at a time

Your briefing stopped starting over every morning

Until now, each morning's briefing was a fresh snapshot. Useful, but it had no sense of yesterday — a job could be sliding for a week and every briefing described it as if you were seeing it for the first time.

Now it remembers. Foreman keeps the last few mornings in mind, so it can tell you a job has been red for the sixth consecutive day, or that something moved to production yesterday. It also stops repeating itself: it knows how it opened the last few briefings and won't hand you the same headline twice.

The numbers behind those streaks are counted by FabWise, not written by the AI — so sixth consecutive day means exactly that, even for a job that dropped off the list in between.

One tip at a time, and only when it's worth your morning

Some mornings the briefing now closes with a short Tip of the Day — two or three sentences about one thing in FabWise that would make your numbers better, grounded in your own shop's figures. Putting dollar values on jobs. Running payroll straight out of FabWise instead of retyping hours. Hosting your shop's website on FabWise so quote requests arrive as leads.

The rules it plays by matter more than the tips themselves:

• Never more than one a day, always at the bottom, never in front of the real news.
• Most mornings, none at all. If it's raised something recently, or your shop has a genuinely heavy morning, it keeps quiet.
• It notices when you act. Price six more jobs after a tip about pricing and the next briefing says so — once — then moves on.
• You can end a subject for good. If a tip is about something your shop handles another way, click Not interested — we handle this differently. That subject is done: no more tips about it, and no congratulations about it later either. Changed your mind? Settings → Company lists everything you've silenced, with a way to bring it back.

This replaces the old behavior where the briefing led with the same data-quality note every single morning. One well-chosen tip that stops is worth more than the same reminder every day — which the last month proved fairly conclusively.

Put a dollar value on a job while it's in your head

The new-job form now asks for Estimated Job Value — a ballpark of what the whole job is worth to the customer. It's optional and skipping it never slows down the save, but it's worth the guess: that number powers margin, win-rate, and pipeline reporting, and it's far easier to type while the conversation is fresh than to go back for it later.

Issuing a real quote replaces whatever you typed with the quote total, so a rough number now never gets in the way of the real one later. It's separate from Estimated Labor Cost sitting next to it — that one is your internal cost, not what the customer pays.

Your setup score may have moved a few points

Account Health used to score five areas, one of which — Compliance — was held open for labor-compliance checks. FabWise doesn't classify overtime or enforce labor law (your payroll provider does), so that area never had anything in it, and every account was collecting points for a category that asked nothing.

It's gone, and the four remaining areas were rebalanced to still add up to 100. A fully configured account still scores 100. Most accounts won't move at all; the rest move by a few points. If your number changed without you touching a setting, that's why — and what you're looking at now only reflects things you can actually set up.

No action needed on any of this. The briefing changes show up in tomorrow morning's briefing if you have it switched on.